Stories Collection

  1. The Basics Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: Currently available Price: $79.99 Media:...
  2. Today’s consoles (sans GameCube, of course) have recently been hit hard with a ...
  3. Disagree with the list? You’re the ones who created it. Choose and/or lose at e...
  4. CRISPIN: Well ain’t this a dandy stroke of luck. Before the hoods of our virtua...
  5. KEVIN: Reviewing games based on movies, anime, or breakfast cereals is always a thorn...
  6. JOSH: First the Red Sox win the World Series, then a flock of Arkansas razorbacks fli...
  7. Metal Gear Solid Vs. Splinter Cell They’re both cold, calculating superspies, b...
  8. It’s end-of-the-year time as I write this (not end-of-the-world time, that&rsqu...
  9. Occasionally, EGM chats with big-time game makers and asks their preferences on diffe...
  10. Meet the Parents... Brian Boyd Age: 38 Majita Dalton Age: 35 Anita Sarko Age: 44 Anne...
  11. JOSH: You know a game’s gonna rock hard when the menu beeps have been replaced ...
  12. But yes, much of Stranger does revolve around shooting one thing or another, which is...
  13. CRISPIN: New to this year’s Mario Party: hard liquor and keg stands. Well, in m...
  14. Marios preparing bob-omb air strikes, squads of Master Chiefs piling into Warthogs, a...
  15. God of War March 2005 — This slick Devil May Cry–inspired actioner transp...
  16. Everybody knows how to get into hell—rob a bank, be slothful, covet thy neighbo...
  17. SHANE: It’s been nearly four years since Game Boy questers last smited an octor...
  18. It’s that time again—time for yours truly to pop open the bubbly, watch D...
  19. The hit parade toward EGM’s 200th issue continues this month with another painf...
  20. Shane Bettenhausen; Justin Speer;Nich Maragos Whether you’re amusing yourself o...
  21. The Basics Publisher: Tapwave Release Date: Currently available Price: $399.99 Media:...
  22. KEVIN: As the nutters who pay triple figures on eBay for previous games in the series...
  23. Platforms: PS2/XB/GC Publisher: EA Games Developer: EA L.A. Release Date: Mid–2...
  24. SHANE: Even if you consider Sega’s Virtua Fighter 4 the greatest fighting game ...
  25. It took some effort to get over the whole prequel paradox thing (as in, if so many co...
  26. KEVIN: There’s nothing inherently crap about Asphalt Urban GT...but everyone wi...
  27. Platform: PlayStation 2 Publisher: Koei Developer: Koei Release Date: March 2005 In t...
  28. Samurai Western Wasn’t this a movie? Nope—you’re probably thinking ...
  29. From cocreating the sketch comedy series Mr. Show to taking a starring turn as the &l...
  30. Nullsleep (www.nullsleep.com) Jeremiah Johnson’s homepage, featuring links to c...
  31. Resident Evil 4 has lurched into the building, but not in time for us to give it a fu...
  32. If we get bad reviews or bad comments [about our game], we become very depressed,&rdq...
  33. 1 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 • Rockstar 2 NBA Live 2005 PS2 • EA Sp...
  34. The Basics Publisher: Nokia Release Date: Currently available Price: $199.99 (free wi...
  35. The Basics Publisher: Tiger Release Date: Spring 2005 Price: $459.99 Media: Proprieta...
  36. SHOE: 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10. OK, I can now calmly write a profession...
  37. DEMIAN: Lone Wolf will give you a strange appreciation for the hermit crab—thou...
  38. Dance, game boy, dance. That’s the mantra behind chip music: groovy new electro...
  39. In the world of videogames, two months is a lifetime. Unlucky games can end up in the...
  40. One-on-one online fighting—that’s so 2004. Sammy’s upcoming Xbox fi...
  41. “These ninja’s are about to get a little less violent and a whole lot sex...
  42. MARK: Lifting elements from GTA is so rampant these days it’s become clich?&mda...
  43. JENNIFER: The first KOTOR’s revolutionary story and solid gameplay made it easy...
  44. JENNIFER: I’m embarrassed to admit how hooked I got on this game. As in last ye...
  45. Konami’s third Metal Gear Solid manages to stand strong against amazingly stiff...
  46. Frank Castle does not screw around when it comes to law enforcement. His ideal suspec...
  47. When asked what they’d like to see in Grand Theft Auto–inspired action ga...
  48. 1992 The year the original Mortal Kombat hit arcades 22 Million Number of games sold ...
  49. Sony’s cinematic action/driving hybrid The Getaway hit only a few months after ...
  50. Alight and dark world. Head-scratching puzzles. Big, bad bosses that’ll make ev...
  51. PATRICK: Warning: ATV Offroad Fury 3 may cause motion sickness...but I mean that in t...
  52. Good: Excellent use of the DS’ unique hardware Bad: It’s all over rather ...
  53. We finally got through every single submission to the EGM Review Crew Survivor contes...
  54. I don’t know how the jolly ol’ fella up in the North Pole does it. I, too...
  55. Fearsome Foursome Sorry, but we just couldn’t fit everything we wanted into thi...
  56. Wouldn’t it be nice if Final Fantasy wasn’t so...you know, uptight all th...
  57. Cube owners bored to tears by the endless item fetching in 2002’s Star Fox Adve...
  58. Premium Pack Japanese gamers with deep pockets can spring for the MGS3 premium pack, ...
  59. Good: Looks like no game before it Bad: Otherwise it’s just another shooter It&...
  60. Good: Well...the music’s perky Bad: Extremely limited chat features Just Stick ...
  61. A few things we want to address now that Halo 2 is being played by 200 billion people...
  62. "Do you know where we are?” Bungie HQ in Redmond, WA, the holy birthplace of Ha...
  63. TV and magazine ads? That’s so last century. Game companies today are hyping th...
  64. This long-delayed Xbox platformer, a remake of Nintendo 64 problem child Conker&rsquo...
  65. Us: “Why was Splinter Cell Chaos Theory delayed to March 2005?” Them: &ld...
  66. (PS2/XB only) KEVIN: “Do not count days; do not count miles; count only the num...
  67. MARK: With an entire battalion of military-themed shooters in stores these days, it&r...
  68. BRYAN: Who woulda thunk it—a Disney-meets-Final Fantasy action-RPG being such a...
  69. Good: Webslinging like an old pro Bad: Looking for that last hard-to-find baddie The ...
  70. If you like shooting aliens with high-powered weaponry, you’re probably already...
  71. With its beautiful screen, visuals on par with some of today’s console games, a...
  72. To kick off EGM’s run up to its 200th issue, we picked 10 games that helped red...
  73. The team behind Konami’s ghoulish Castlevania games takes a futuristic detour w...
  74. This latest handheld Zelda adventure strikes us as a bit weird. First, it’s odd...
  75. CRISPIN: Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays. Warrior Within’s...
  76. Good: Superb environments, online play is fun when it works Bad: Lag rears its ugly h...
  77. After last month’s barrage of triple-A games, we thought things might slow down...
  78. If San Andreas—the faux-California setting for the latest Grand Theft Auto&mdas...
  79. Even after a disappointing sequel, half-demon badass Dante still has reason to be coc...
  80. “You know what the problem is with boxing right now?” wonders Kudo Tsunod...
  81. A Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2) 1 Sword-wielding badass slices his way through hordes...
  82. Nathan Frost, neurally-enhanced lieutenant in the international Liberty Coalition for...
  83. Originally slated as an Xbox exclusive, Psychonauts now plans on unleashing its uniqu...
  84. (ps2/xb) Good: Effective play-calling system Bad: Graphics still need work Try: Re-cr...
  85. Good: Fun platforming gimmicks Bad: Pretty boring in spots False Advertising: Blinx h...
  86. Oh, how I had hoped to have Half-Life 2 by now. But alas, the game has not quite come...
  87. It must have been a particularly raucous staff meeting where Namco’s developers...
  88. Commandos: Strike Force PS2/XB • Eidos • Spring 2005 — Strike Force s...
  89. The only thing better than piloting a 40-ton robot with laser pincers and 40,000-degr...
  90. Namco’s mission statement for the first Dead to Rights was simple—take a ...
  91. You’re sitting there with a big-ass smile on your face, maybe smoking a cigaret...
  92. (PS2/Xb) BRYAN: Last season’s game had two big problems: It neither played nor ...
  93. SHOE: While playing Super Mario 64 DS, I realized it’s still one of the best 3D...
  94. Amid a barrage of rumors over the last three years, Capcom has continued to vehementl...
  95. Like your games a bit on the weird side? This one’s for you: Killer 7 blends sc...
  96. Ganbare Goemon Are there a lot of Japan-exclusive DS titles? Not really. Other than a...
  97. Too much of a good thing can be bad: Just look at Taco Bell’s carb-free menu. G...
  98. We’re still crawling from the wreckage of the explosive 2004 holiday gaming sea...
  99. If you can’t logon to Xbox Live to open Foundation (a remake of a level from th...
  100. (PS2/XB ONLY) DEMIAN: I know why Electronic Arts decided to resurrect the GoldenEye n...
  101. Good: Six-way wireless multiplayer! Bad: Blah graphics, typical Ridge Racer fantasyla...
  102. Metal Gear Solid 3’s stealthy Snake is a real American hero, but he ain’t...
  103. When it comes to making role-playing games, BioWare’s kung fu is strong indeed....
  104. 2002’s Tekken 4 took a critical drubbing in the wake of Sega’s excellent ...
  105. Meet the kids... Anthony Acosta Age: 11 Parker Ames Age: 11 Garret Conour Age 13 Phot...
  106. Unreal Championship 2 may not have a sweeping story line or cool alien vehicles, but ...
  107. It’s the night of November 8, 2004, and fans are lined up in front of game stor...
  108. Good: Gets its looks and soundtrack from the movie Bad: Levels drag, fighting is repe...
  109. Good: Smooth animation, some funny dialogue Bad: Trial-and-error gameplay Intended Au...
  110. After an eight-year hiatus from the silver screen (which should be enough time for ev...
  111. With the exception of neutered Wookiee butlers, nobody takes orders like a squad of w...
  112. Gaming isn’t geeky, dammit!” shouts Jason Jones, smashing his fist on the...
  113. Midway’s recent Mortal Kombat: Deception successfully augmented the series&rsqu...
  114. You’ll have to wait a little longer for Midnight Club 3’s brand of open-c...
  115. The Launch Pad Here it is: the biggest jump in GTA history. Trick out a fast car with...
  116. Good: Damn, these girls look fine Bad: Limited options, few stages Ugly: Aigle’...
  117. Bryan: They say there are only two guarantees in life: death and taxes. Well, make th...
  118. Good: Easy to pick up, several fun games Bad: Incredibly shallow, many games unrespon...
  119. Shadow of Rome is a very Western game from a very Japanese developer, from its Roman ...
  120. Packed with corny dialogue, a wholly unbelievable romance, and a character named Elan...
  121. Every so often, we ship a celebrity off to a desert island and ask what three console...
  122. It’s a paranoid, ripped-from-the-headlines setup: The shadowy General Song has ...
  123. Percentage Points Just as in the original Metroid Prime, Echoes includes three differ...
  124. Good: Classic Mega Man X gameplay Bad: Any movement that involves more than two dimen...
  125. Plugged in: We’re well aware of the famous first rule of Fight Club: You don&rs...
  126. Plugged in: When they talk about “the army of one” on TV, they’re r...
  127. Plugged in: Remember Gungriffon for the Sega Saturn? Not so much, eh? Oh, well&hellip...
  128. Today’s U.S. soldiers are the world’s most lethal breed of combat trooper...
  129. Ghouls and ghosts? Boooring! Halloween is the one night a year when you can dress in ...
  130. Troubled Bridge Over Water You and a few Marines need to cross a ridiculously long br...
  131. Good: New First Touch control makes for realistic soccer action Bad: Slide tackles ar...
  132. MARK: Like the original Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64 and its spiritual successor M...
  133. The team behind Squeenix’s recent PS2 roleplayer Star Ocean: Till the End of Ti...
  134. Sadistic gamers will welcome this new chapter in Tecmo’s diabolical Deception s...
  135. You know the story: Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, boy swipes scorpions off girl&...
  136. No, the name’s not Bond. It’s... GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. And instead of s...
  137. Leon Kennedy knows how to deal with zombies: He fought a city full of the buggers bac...
  138. Why, he would ascend to gridiron heaven while angels croon a glorious rendition of &l...
  139. Forty seconds. Unless you’re an Olympic sprinter, that’s not a measuremen...
  140. APE ESCAPE Sony CEA • March 2005 Netting wild monkeys never gets old, but Escape...
  141. KEVIN: Put yourself in the game designer’s shoes for a moment. You’d like...
  142. Good: Characters from five different Capcom games duking it out Bad: Many of those ch...
  143. SHOE: Killzone first exploded onto the scene with an Internet movie trailer that show...
  144. G. FORD: In a feat that is both remarkable and expected, Nintendo once again delivers...
  145. Squarely Seeing Double As always, remember to scope out egmextras.1UP.com for a gaggl...
  146. Plugged in: Capcom rips characters straight from its respective 2D fighting series, r...
  147. Plugged in: Do you want some frilly, commie-pinko multiplayer modes like “daisy...
  148. The Covenant An alliance of spacefaring races organized in religious castes. With the...
  149. Square Enix debuted this Disney-meets-Final Fantasy sequel last fall, but then prompt...
  150. What do you get when you put a dozen 400-pound gorillas in the same game store? Lots ...
  151. In case you got the wrong impression from all the talk about Halo 2’s new onlin...
  152. Good: Character-building skill system Bad: No online mode, sometimes gimpy controls I...
  153. What with heavyweights the likes of Paper Mario, Tony Hawk’s Underground 2, and...
  154. Does the Tokyo Game Show still matter? In recent years, the answer seemed to be no&md...
  155. Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) and Nintendo’s DS offer wildly differen...
  156. Atwo-way tie for Game of the Month, with both Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Halo ...
  157. Call of Duty • Nokia • ESRB: T Nokia clearly killed the families of everyon...
  158. A fractured foot isn’t breaking wild man Bam Margera’s stride. It was the...
  159. “We’d have an inbred industry stuck in a never-ending loop of recycled id...
  160. Gobble, gobble! By the time you read this edition of our mag, it’ll probably be...
  161. JAM WITH THE BAND Nintendo • 2005 Thank Miyamoto someone decided to resurrect th...
  162. (ps2/xb) G. FORD: Godzilla’s already celebrating his 50th year of scaring poorl...
  163. Good: Kuon-derful graphics Bad: Dull combat Clich?: Dispatch twisted mutants in a hau...
  164. Good: Classic 2D feel with next-gen online play Bad: Nothing we haven’t seen be...
  165. SHANE: Last fall, Boktai successfully tricked pale, confused gamers into venturing ou...
  166. If you’re one of the SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs faithful who bought a PlayStatio...
  167. Plugged in: Run vertically up a wall, make a graceful floating leap to a distant roof...
  168. Plugged in: Since everyone you meet online is just hopelessly insubordinate, Brother ...
  169. Think you have a good idea about what to expect from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes based on...
  170. Rumor has it that producing a videogame these days takes countless hours and cripplin...
  171. It’s tough being an adult gamer, what with annoying things like girlfriends, fe...
  172. Of course you beat Halo thrice on Legendary difficulty, studied the game’s offi...
  173. Like the gridiron, only EA Sports and ESPN are hitting the hardwood this season. The ...
  174. The 2003 merger of role-playing giants Square and Enix hasn’t produced any wack...
  175. The Japanese DS has its own launch date (December 3) and game lineup, including a few...
  176. Music games, that is. Listening to music, making beautiful music, and strictly option...
  177. Prepare to return to the world of Square Enix’s most successful role-playing ga...
  178. Fear octogenarians: Their need for big buttons would’ve made mammoth Xbox contr...
  179. Disagree with the list? You’re the ones who created it. Rock your vote at egm.1...
  180. DEMIAN: Brooke Burke as the no-guff-takin’, street-slang-slingin’ queen o...
  181. Good: Sexy vampire violence Bad: Too many “toss someone into whirling blades pu...
  182. BRYAN: If Goldilocks wandered into the house of the three bears and found a copy of e...
  183. Good: Fun strategy-ish battle system Bad: Neither game quite stands out on its own Mo...
  184. Good: Cool new dungeons, weapons, and bosses Bad: FFII’s weird experience syste...
  185. Apparently, Sony is all about saving you space in the living room, as the company rec...
  186. Human Weapons M6C pistol Magazine: 12 rounds One of the very best weapons from the or...
  187. Plugged in: “I think there’s definitely a market for blood, guts, profani...
  188. With a whole Internetful of porn at your fingertips, you’d have to be a real bo...
  189. There’s no denying that Korn’s Jonathan Davis is hardcore— and we&r...
  190. Wireless Controller and Headset • Hip Gear • XB • $100 www.hipgearprod...
  191. We have to test the graphics on bad televisions, too, you know,” says a Bungie ...
  192. Good: More boss fights than you can shake a sword-for-an-arm at Bad: So-so graphics w...
  193. Despite what you might have heard (or read) elsewhere, this isn’t the sequel to...
  194. These PSP games are slated for Japan only. Will they play in Peoria? DERBY TIME: Slic...
  195. Turn on every television, radio, stereo, and other media device in your home, then cr...
  196. The first title from former Capcom honcho Yoshiki Okamoto’s new company looks.....
  197. If we have learned anything from comic books and the 23 episodes of Star Trek: The Ne...
  198. The reality: As inconceivable as it may sound, there was a point in time when Mario a...
  199. Sure, the console’s dead sexy, but serious questions remain concerning whether ...