AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2004 I got the latest issue of GMR yesterday, but only got around to reading it at night. Wow, there's actually lots of good news on the horizon. First off--shock of shocks, Astroboy gets the cover. There's going to be two games for it, one on PS2 by Sonic Team (re-reads that, brain breaks)--hopefully a vast improvement over the crappy version of Sonic Heroes. The other for GBA, produced by those whacky group of Ex-Konami employees, Treasure, and Sega's Hitmaker development house. The PS2 game is going to play...somewhat like NiGHTs with more play mechanics when you're flying, but there's ground-based stuff as well. The GMR peeps got to play a bit of it hands-on and it looks mahvelous. Apparently you even get new weapons and gimmicks when you beat a boss. The GBA game is supposed to be an awesome old-school style game, packed with special effects and techniques, hearkening back to those glorious platformers of the Genesis days. There's even a bit of Gunstar music in the game, supposedly. The screenshots look very much like Treasure's work, to be sure. Lots of speculation over the Nintendo Dual Screen. There's criticism, as expected, but actually a lot of constructive discussion about it. Maybe it will be a hit afterall. A couple other touches I like: actually acknowledging that not everyone gushes over Metal Gear Solid's overbearing melodrama, and the magazine closes by daring to bash Rockstar's shitacular Manhunt. *applause* The reviews still are short though, blah. However, this issues is head-and-shoulders above just about anything G.I. has done in years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jer 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2004 Nod, my roommate gets GMR for free as part of some promotion, and I've always liked it. They had an issue that reviewed SC2, VF4e and also had a brief history on fighters over time, and although the reviews were still kind of scrubby, I was very impressed by how historically accurate and unbiased it was. I've liked it ever since. It's willing to be more honest in giving negative reviews to overhyped games than any other mag I've seen recently. And I'm a *huge* mark for any mag that bashes Manhunt. Such an awful game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2004 That's the same reason I subscribed (promotion). It's the only reason I even get G.I. and GMR in the first place, but at least it looks like GMR is a good read. G.I. is just more paper to take to the recycling plant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2004 GMR's rants in the back(game geezer) are almost always funny and they usually bash stuff that nobody else in the press dares to bash. They were bashing Halo a couple months ago. Also bashed the people that whine about the "good old days". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
