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“After all this time, | finally got Zelda home. WOW! Everything these guys were saying is true. This game is unbelievable. Of course, by now I'm sure everyone has heard about Zelda, so I'll shut up. Other than that, it's been a great month for rock as Archers of Loaf and Fugazi came through town. Football has been great as well, since the Vikings are (hopefully) still on a tear by the time you read this. And I'm sure they are.”

8 Game Informer • January ‘99

GAMES INDEX

Bend But Don't Break

BY ANDREW McNAMARA

n my October editorial | asked our readers a big question: Should Game Informer start doing preview covers [since we are putting magazines on the newsstand]? The answer from

the readers was a resounding ,"NO!" And I thank

you for that.

There are many times in the life of a video game magazine when the pull to be just like all the rest becomes an irresistible force. “Hey, the other guy has Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on the cover? Look, the other guy has Dreamcast? Man, if we did preview covers we could do them so much better than these guys." But you know, in the end, the feeling passes. And | remember all the preview covers that featured games that never came out, or titles that got hyped as the greatest thing since sliced bread and then received a less than impressive score when they

were reviewed.

And back in October 1 had a funny feeling that Game Informer needed to be like all the rest, but all of you who responded to my little plea for help set me back on the true and righteous path (I've always wanted to say that). Give me video games or give me death!!! But don’t change my

Game Informer.

Robert, The Game Casanova robert@gameinformer.com

“Whew. This month has sucked for yours truly. Apart from being chained to my desk and having to work so we can meet some deadlines, | haven't done much. The Square fairy is gonna come down and tan my hide, for | haven't finished Xenogears or Brave Fencer. At least, at the time of this writing. Anyhow, game on, tender souls, and keep buying stuff for the early part of 1999 so game companies will figure out that there's something happening outside the holiday season besides E3.

Jon, The Greedy Gamer jon@gameinformer.com

“After a long, exciting tenure with Game Informer, | am leaving the magazine to become (check this out): senior editor at North American Fisherman magazine! Awesome. Games may rule, but fishing and the outdoors are my true love. Just remember, Game Informer rocks, and the Buffalo Bills will live forever.”

As a result, Game Informer will continue to do all the awesome review covers (with strategy guide) that Game Informer has become famous for. However, there is one catch.

We are going to set a new watermark that not only Game Informer must uphold, but that other magazines will someday strive to duplicate. When we don’t have a game that is worthy enough for the “coveted” cover spot, we are not

going to just take the next best thing. Which | know sounds ridiculous, but there are times when | think about my past decisions and realize that we did just that. But no more. From here on out, Game Informer will put preview games on the cover when there isn’t an obviously superior game for review. However, keep in mind that we will do everything in our power to make sure that this rarely happens. But when we do have to do a preview cover, you can rest assured

that we will make sure to deliver the most

comprehensive story possible.

I think you'll like what we have in mind. Let's just hope we can do it to the standards that we (and you) have set for ourselves. Enjoy the issue and we'll see you all back here next month.

Paul, The Game Professor paul@gameinformer.com

“It is almost time to pick the best of the best for our annual awards. 1998 was a banner year for games, but it will be hard to pick winners because there was a lot to choose from. Everyone wants a piece of the video game pie and 1999 may mean that we'll have to sift through even more crap games to find the good ones. With new game systems on the horizon, this is definitely going to be an interesting year.”

Reiner, The Raging Gamer reiner@gameintormer.com

“We have a serious problem here folks. This may sound crazy and all, but Andy and | have become hopelessly addicted to the Star Wars Episode 1 trailer. Every five minutes or so, we watch the trailer. As of now, | think we've viewed it about 350 times. Thankfully, 1 haven't gone completely nuts like poor little Andy. He actually believes that he's Anakin. Really. Right now, he's building C-3PO. (Use the Force Reiner) Wha??? Ben...”

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“The moment of truth draws near. As | write this, the purple are getting ready for a sweep of the cheese in the sterile, yet beloved Metrodome. This is a huge game as it will put the Vikes up by three games and hopefully silence the cheddar for the rest of the season. But that's just the small picture. Hopefully, this will mark the end of the

Packers being even remotely good for another 20 years or so. Then all of the bandwagon Packer fans in the Twin Cities might shut-up."

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Burning Questions That Need Answering

First just want to say your mag rules and only being a subscriber for a little less than a year l've seen other mags and yours is the best. (Is that enough sucking up, because | wasn't sure.) Seriously though, | do have questions for you guys, and they are numbered for your personal reading enjoyment.

1. | might be wrong but on every issue you guys make, whatever is on the front cover that month, the very top part of the character in the featured game is covering up a tiny bit of INFORMER. Not that it really matters that much but just out of curiosity, why do you guys do it?

2. It’s just a suggestion but some months the send-in art is bad, but sometimes there is some REALLY good artwork that is drawn by people that obviously have a lot of talent. Have you guys ever thought of maybe adding a section at the end of the year with all the monthly winners and then give a big prize for the year's best drawn picture?

3. I'm pretty sure Nintendo lowered the price of their product in reaction to the lowering of the PlayStation's price, but why did Sony lower the price? It's not like they were losing business or not selling enough PlayStations. It didn't SEEM that way, but | have no sources whatsoever, so т just asking. Besides if they were going to lower the price they should have done

Fears About the Asian Gaming Market

We all have heard of the falling Asian stock market. Should gamers be worried that some game companies might not survive these economic hardships, like Sega? Or should the gamers be glad because the game producers want their stock to go up so they will slash prices to increase sales? | know that Sony is safe because they are in the American Stock Exchange.

Matt Ross via snet.net The outlook for the gaming industry is positive, Don't worry about the Asian market, because the U.S. gaming scene is strong enough to support most, if not all, of the Asian game manufacturers. Yet, the Asian video game market, especially in Japan, is very solid. Spurred by the recent launch of Dreamcast, the Japanese gaming scene is exciting and all three companies are definitely “safe” for the foreseeable future. Don't expect any drastic price changes in games or systems in coming months (unless Sony or Nintendo announces a new system).

Game Informer • January '99

The N64 Needs a Hot Bahe

| am so pissed off, | could just kill someone! | may own a PlayStation as well as an N64, but | must say | am sickened at seeing PS-X get another hot babe while the N64 gets nothing but dust! Okay, now | will get to the point: Witchblade!!! PS-X got Steel Harbinger and Lara Croft and now this! | can’t take it anymore! All | want is the N64’s own Lara Croft-type

hero!! Is that too much to ask? De Ro 64 via yahoo.com

it, oh | don't know, much earlier like around January of [last] year (this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that when | bought my PlayStation in January it cost $150, nah, not at all). Ryan Berens via juno.com First off, we get no personal enjoyment from reading numbered questions, but find answering them quite exhilarating. On we go! |. Out of the last 12 issues, 6 of them had what you described. We sometimes do this to add depth to the cover image. 2.A great suggestion. We will most likely do this in conjunction with our game awards in the February or March issue.

3. Last January, the PlayStation was selling like hotcakes and you are right, Sony was not losing any business. Our view is that the PlayStation business may have slowed slightly last spring and some market analyst at Sony put some numbers together and discovered that even more PlayStations would go out the door if the price was lowered to $130. Sony has also realized some cost reductions in manufacturing the PlayStation. This also played a role in the price drop. Like any piece of electronics, the retail príce decrease over time.

GI Should Be Polite

| must begin my letter by congratulating you and your excellent work at reviewing the newest and latest games across the board. | have been a reader for a year plus, and have found the magazine very helpful and very entertaining. But as | read over the letters to С! today in the November issue, | found your responses rude, to say the least. Now | know, and understand, that you have a wide variety of readers which send in a wide variety of letters. Now the writers can be, and often are, rude and crude, but they are just writers and you do not have to publish and respond to those letters. What upsets me is that when you did respond to two particular letters in issue #67 ("Your Play to Perfections Are Weak" and "Who Stands Corrected?”), your language and style were similar to the writers', rude and childish. l'm not going to pass judgment on who is right or wrong in these situations, but | will say that you could have handled your responses a bit more "professional" | appreciate that we all have our opinions, and that by being readers we look for your opinions on games. But when a person writes in to present their opinion, and hopefully backs it up with facts, you do not have to shoot it down such as when you said, “So YOU stand corrected. Sonic R is OK, but 3D Blast is a pile of junk" ("Who Stands Corrected?"). Or when you insulted one of your loyal readers when you said, “Hey Cody, sounds like your gaming kung-fu is very weak.” And then ended the letter by kicking dirt on him with an abrupt and impolite “Good-bye!” ("Your Play to Perfections Are Weak"). Personally | feel you should not print these letters, or

Spice Girls Fan Exposed

In your November 1998 Vol. viii issue | | #67 there is a letter about the Spice Girls video game. | happen to like the Spice Girls, the game is OK, it's not the best, but a lot better then Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch on the Sega CD...The thing that bothered me was the fact YOU implied that they have no talent. Where in the hell do you get off saying this? | used to have a lot of respect for Gl, but a comment like this just means that you are very insecure group of people and the only way you can feel good about yourself is to cut others down...Hello? are we back in grade school? As far as other musical acts getting into video games, it's a matter of how much THEY want to. Well | will leave off saying this... you may think they have no talent, but they're laughing all the way to the bank!!!

Anthony Hinkle

via airnet.net

We did not mean to imply that the Spice Girls’ competence as singers is subpar, we were flat out trying to say they have no talent. Hiding our insecurities by cutting down the Spice Girls? Hardly. We have the Green Bay Packers for that.

Have you forgotten? Nintendo owns the rights to the best video game babe of all time, Justine Bailey from Metroid. Word on the street is Justine will make an appearance on N64. The problem is nobody knows when we might see her triumphant return. Otherwise, Activision's Nightmare Creatures features the voluptuous Nadia. Thanks for the letter.

reply in a more polite fashion. | look § forward to continued excellent reviews and codes, and improvement on your letter replies.

RCW Guy via aol.com Get bent.no..sorry, excuse us. Seriously, Dear СІ would be mighty boring if we only printed positive letters with cordial responses. Should we just print letters with no responses, like most non-gaming magazines? We could put in more letters, but the drawback would be that no letter with a question would ever be answered. Don't think for a second we're going to be polite to the bums who have nothing good to say about us. We aren't even polite to our own staff. In that same issue we agreed that Paul is from the Planet of the Apes. Game Informer is about attitude and sometimes we have a very bad case of it.

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One-On-One With the Giant and Raven

| have been subscribing to game informer for about 5 years now and | think that this magazine is great, it is simply the best. There is not one thing that | do not like about it. | just wanted to say that | thought the response the Raven gave for the question "Who would win Rodzilla and Malone or Leno and Letterman?" was excellent. Conan and Richter are the king of late night. | also wanted to say that you guys are doing a hell of a job and to keep up the good work. Dave Beastie via aol.com Our personal favorite is when Raven says if he had a choice of weapons, he'd go with the cheese grater. Ouch. We've received a lot of great responses to our November feature with Giant and Raven, but we are tired of hearing from the whining WWF fans. Just like that sniveling wimp Vince McMahon, some WWF fans are still bitter about the WCW being more popular [See Dear Gl, Dec. '98].

How Do You Do That?

| subscribe to several gaming magazines including yours. Every one of them has probably two times or more pages than your magazine does. Yet Game Informer has three times the amount of information, AND is more accurate. My question is, how do you do that? You all look so young, but are very professional in attitude. | like that everything you write isn’t slanted toward the 13-year-old male. Some of us are even over (gasp) 30 and (gasp again) FEMALE! Continued success for as long as you want it. Kudos, gentlemen. Susan Behrmann via myhost.com We do so by assembling the best editorial staff in the business and playing our fingers to the bone. Don’t let the young looks fool you, we have been at this for many years. Game Informer is the longest running console gaming magazine next to EGM and GamePro. Thanks for the fine words.

Ratings Gripe

Come on;-Andy and Reiner! Parasite Eve is not.a.boring game. You guys must be pretty damn lazy because they make you do something you don't want to! It's an RPG for God's sake! I think that is one of the best games from Square, so that was terrible ratings by you two! At least Jon gave it halfway decent ratings! What were you thinking telling people not to buy this game! | usually listen to your ratings and don't buy games if you say not to! But | did the exact opposite on this game and love it! | don't think | should listen to your ratings anymore! What did you give FF7 — a 5.5?! Geez | think Parasite Eve deserves a little more credit and is fun (unlike you think)! And | know plenty of people who love this game and so many others who want to get it. | encourage them to buy it because it is a great game!

J. Loxsom via aol.com

See answer to the questions below.

So What Апош Parasite Eve? 1 have a few questions of the numbered kind. |.Why does Parasite Eve suck so much? 2.Why did you change the cover layout? It was fine the way it was! | liked the ripped look in the corner. It was your choice though. 3.How do you pronounce “Chocobo”? 4.Who actually answers the questions? 5.Why does Parasite Eve suck so much? (Again) 6.Are you gonna put me in the mag? Brian Murphy Lapeer, MI I. We think you are actually asking a rhetorical question and already know the answer, but we'll answer it for the benefit of the author of the letter above. The general consensus among the staff is that this game was not up to par. Although the weapons system was excellent, most agree that the overall play was slow and the adventure was extremely short. The game is an excellent candidate for a rental. (Mr. Loxsom?) 2.A number of the staff hated the jagged edge on the top right corner of the cover. They thought it distracted from the main cover image. 3. cho - ka - bo 4. We all take turns. This month, the honor goes to... 5. Its actually caused by a change in air pressure. 6.Absolutely not!

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| same flare as the original." : mee had supor graphies, ; WISI CERERI RU control, an outdoor i SS pie om environments. Not oily that; but it didn’t throw typical enemies at-you. Instead of some generic alien freak or mutant-pig.cop,-Turok heaved dinosaurs at you. These fierce enemies were enhanced — ' even further by some twitchy death animation. Human enemies would grab theit’necks ina useless — ^ attempt, to keep "blood from jetting out of their fatal wounds. You-could even hear them croak — БИ pine аон violently for а last gasp*of precious and fleeting oxygen. N64 sound and graphics. You'll benefit Sound So here lies the problem,for the creators of Turok: How do you make a sequel їо а game that from the RAM pak, but it’s not necessary 9.5 swept so many people off their feet? Therefore, Iguana knew it had to make the sequel twice: as Hee SEA NA. стаду good as the original. Andon almost every front, Turok 2 succeeds. New features abound. Turok „ж | as it is паві 9 ; has implemented а 4-player-deathmatch and mission objectives for the t-player adventure. Plus, ) long Ue comine, bit if wa: well worth Entertainment Turok 2 is КАМ Pak compatible allowing you to play the game in hi-res. Normally the game” 77. das 29 looks great, but with this peripheral, you'll be even more impressed. PT ү, ;

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ыо иаа can be annoying at times, it heightens the experience because you won't want 2 Al is also something to behold. Al the “GP to go back and redo. sections of a level if you can help it. RC ee Gu ie uae oo OS The enemies have changed as well. Not only аге there more of them, but the tsized. The levels in Turok 2are 9,75 Al has improved too. Yes; theré are still dinosaurs. Compys and raptors are a ^. bly large. This isn't a bad thing cound common sight. But there’s more. You'll encounter six races of enemies throughout M RA It AE i the game. For instance, the first two levels are dominated by dinosoids - half man k gonizing to save. Sometimes you'll need "ae / 7 1, to play for hours before you сап quit ortake Playability half lizard. These guys aren't that tough, but when you mortally wound them, they'll ^. j a breather. Lame. Turok 2's control is Я ү i ү ООШ packed: wth tons ш EB input a self-destruct-code on a wristband and blow themselves up. - К configurations (even a GoldenEye button Entertainment The риг-іппгаге a-primitive race of large ape-like creatures. The most amusing (8 ш TE EG E He ue pur-linn carries à large.pack.on his back containing an endless supply-of small stones. { Е

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* Size: 256 Megabit

e Style: 1 to 4Player Action

* Special Features: 6 Mammoth Worlds;

kic 43 Mission Objectives; 24 Weapons; 30 Types of

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* Replay Value: Moderately Low Created by: Iguana Entertainment for Acclaim * Available: Now for Nintendo 64

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P aft see, but have acut senses of smell and hearing. Some live in the lava and . ' shoot blazing balls of fire and sometimes. "when you kill them, the body explodes” » And the legs keep running. i Of course, Turok 2 has tons of Jweapons, new and old. Naturally, the shotgun returns with both regular and explosive shells. The Scorpion Launcher fires a series of missiles and the Cerebral Bore locks onto a victim's brain waves and tunnels a path to the soft tissue beneath the skull. The Firestorm Cannon acts much like 4 Gatling Gun, but instead of wussy bullets, it expels powerful plasma-beams that obliterate anything in its path. Then there is the priceless sniper scope attached to the Plasma Rifle and Tek Bow, allowing you to pick off enemies-fíom. a distance. Two of the most special weapons, however, can only be used-in level two and are strapped to a dinosaur that you м ride. Two giant mortar cannons are bound to the head along with а machine дип. EO. The best thing is that the-ammo is unlimited, plus you can charge and gore enemies P with the beasts giant horns. , 4 Turok 2 is huge and will amaze most who experience it. The animation, Al, enemies, and just about everything else have been created with the greatest of care. If you loved the first adventure, you must | check out Turok 2 just to see the advancements alone. But after that, the challenge of Turok 2 will be more than

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