Edge - Issue 167 - October 2006

Features

• The Lurking Deep (Life on the seabed has thrown up some ideas for Ken Levine. He tells us about the Bioshock and 'analogue puzzles')
• City Hunter (Crackdown comes from the brains behind GTA, and brings a superhero twist to inner-city brawling and crimefighting)
• How Does Their Garden... (grow? We visit rare to discover Viva Pinata 0 the irresistible face of Microsoft's plan for world domination)
• The Grid Runner (We sit down with Tetsuya Mizuguchi to talk puzzles, music, and what 15 years of game development have taught him)
• Sonic Boom (It surrounds you as you play, but how has the art of noise evolved, and where is it going in a multichannel future)
• Google Knocks (How the search giant is taking its first steps into the world of games)
• Goodbye, Old Friend (We gauge reaction to the news that the E3 of old is to be downsized)
• The Game Always Shines On TV (London-based Prize Fight wants to bring pro-gaming to primetime)
• Total Respray (From car thieves to superheroes, we talk to Dave Jones about evolution)
• Build Your Own Games (... at a price, as Microsoft makes life a little better for homebrewers)

Including Previews of:

• Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (360, PC)
• Just Cause (360, PC, PS2, Xbox)
• Scarface (360, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
• GTA: Vice City Stories (PSP)
• Warhammer: Mark Of Chaos (PC)
• Broken Sword: Taod (PC)
• Bit Generations (GBA)
• Company Of Heroes (PC)
• Timeshift (360, PC)
• Colin McRae: Dirt (360, PS3)
• Killzone: Liberation (PSP)
• Gundam: Target In Sight (360, PS3)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Dead Rising (360)
• Test Drive Unlimited (360, PC, PS2, PSP)
• Yakuza (PS2)
• Every Extend Extra (PSP)
• Star Fox Command (DS)
• Saints Row (360)
• GTR2 (PC)
• Lego Star Wars II (360, GBA, DS, GC, PC, PS2, PSP)
• Bullet Witch (360)
• Contact (DS)
• B-Boy (PS2, PSP)
• Gangs Of London (PSP)
• Rhythm Tengoku (GBA)
• Mario Hoops 3-On-3 (DS)