GamesTM Issue 117

[prinnysquad]

Reviews
Mario Kart 7 - 3DS - 8
Need For Speed: The Run - Multi - 5
Kirby's Adventure Wii - Wii - 6
Jurassic Park: The Game - Multi - 3
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights - 3DS - 4
PixelJunk SideScroller - PS3 - 7
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures - 360 - 7
Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call - DS - 6
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - PSP - 7
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten - PS3 - 8
Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games - Wii/3DS - 5

Discuss
Crystal Balls - A look at some of the rumour and speculation about the next gen
Wright You Are - Talk with Wil Wright
Boss Battle - Capcom's Seth Killian talks about Street Fighter X Tekken
Shock and Awe - chat with Ken Levine

Features
The History of Metal Gear - a look at the series so far
Of Human Bondi - Talk with Brendan McNamara about past, present and future
History Repeating - What is different about Soul Calibur V?
Snowblind - A look at Blizzard's upcoming year
Dante's Infernal - Team Ninja's Tameem Antoniades chats about Dante's new look
2011: A Retrospective

Retro
Behind the Scenes: Sensible Software
Collector's Corner: Hyper Duel
Year in Review: 1986
GameGadget - the 'iTunes' of retro gaming - the new machine by Blaze,

[Daragon]

Score for Layton sounds about right, it needs to suffer for erroneously "forgetting" to include a game called LONDON life in the UK version.

Le sigh.

[importaku]

They didn't forget they just couldn't be arsed. Sure there wasn't enough room for a 7 euro language translation of it but seeing as it exists in english already they could have easily put it in the uk version.

Thats why i'll never buy uk domestic nintendo ever.

[PaTaito]

6 for kirby?

[Super Grover]

Only a 3 for Jurassic Park?

Is that one of the lowest scores for this gen?

[Dogg Thang]

Is that London Life in the US version? It's just a normal region-free DS title, right?

[importaku]

Yes & yes

[rmoxon]

Only a 3 for Jurassic Park?

Is that one of the lowest scores for this gen?

Its basically an interactive movie with very little actual interaction and an uninteresting story. It's also technically a mess, and was clearly rushed out becuase it doesn't feel finished at all. It's also about an hour long.

A 3 is being generous.

[Dogg Thang]

Yes & yes

Excellent. It will be my first import in quite some time.

[PaTaito]

The gamegadget looks really interesting, if it has a nice screen + res then i will be in for it.

[Sketcz]

Ooh, missed this topic. I wrote the Metal Gear history feature this month - unfortunately my subscription copy is no doubt only going to arrive in January, since I live in France and it's the Christmas rush right now.

Can anyone hook me up with scans/photos PM'd to my inbox? I do enjoy re-reading my own work.

For the record: I only wrote the history feature (should be 13 pages), with interviews from past developers, I wasn't involved with the modern Rising preview.

[MartyG]

Its basically an interactive movie with very little actual interaction and an uninteresting story. It's also technically a mess, and was clearly rushed out becuase it doesn't feel finished at all. It's also about an hour long.

A 3 is being generous.

The developers thought it was good - they even gave it a 10/10 in a couple of self-reviews on metacritic.

[QualityChimp]

I wrote the Metal Gear history feature this month

Can anyone hook me up with scans/photos PM'd to my inbox? I do enjoy re-reading my own work.

It was 13 pages about how the game was broken because although you could stuff unconscious soldiers into lockers, there weren't any locker tokens.
You spent 14 hours trying to find locker tokens.

Only kidding! Did any of the people you spoke to tell you to "F*** OFF" like in that Akira feature for Hardcore Gaming 101?
That really had me chuckling, mate!

[Sketcz]

Thanks. Hmm, nothing quite the same, but the language barrier provided it's own hair-raising moments at times, resulting in some desperate late night faxes being sent. A behind the scenes documentary would probably blow your minds on the highs and lows of writing that feature (crazy stuff you wouldn't believe). I think there's at least 12 interviewees in it.