Edge - Issue 171 - January 2007

Features

• We Could Be Heroes (Grasshopper Manufacture moves to the Wii, with the GTA-inspired No More Heroes. Creator Suda Goichi tells us why)
• This Spartan Life (We visit Bungie to find out how the once-tiny studio has survived life with Microsoft and the huge success of Halo)
• Achievements Unlocked (And examination of Microsoft's transformation of all games into one game, through its introduction of Gamerpoints)
• Edge Awards 2006 (The very best of the past year's hardware and software, triumphs and blunders distilled into our annual awards)
• Time Extend: Speedball 2 (The Bitmap Brothers' game took the Amiga by storm in 1990. So why has there been nothing quite like it since?
• Launch break (Wii and PS3 hit the ground in the US and Japan)
• The End Of An Era (With its huge number of users, how long will the PS2 take to fade?)
• Going Dutch (We reported from the upbeat Dutch Game Days conference in Utrecht)
• Yellow Dog (If playing games isn't enough for your PS3, why not install Linux on it?)

Including Previews of:

• Dirt: Colin McRae Off-Road (360, PC, PS3)
• Command & Conquer 3 (360, PC)
• Guild Wars: Nightfall (PC)
• Left 4 Dead (PC)
• Free Running (PS2, PSP)
• Oblivion: Knights Of The Nine (360, PC)
• Spectrobes (DS)
• Elveon (360)
• Boke To Sim No Machi (Wii)
• Shinjuku No Okami (PS2)
• Test Drive Unlimited (PS2, PSP)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Resistance: Fall Of Man (PS3)
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii)
• Excite Truck (Wii)
• Genji: Days Of The Blade  (PS3)
• Ridge Racer 7 (PS3)
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (360)
• Viva Pinata (360)
• Yoshi's Island DS (DS)
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii)
• Phantasy Star Universe  (360, PC, PS2)
• Race: The Official WTCC Game (PC)
• Rayman Raving Rabbits (Wii, PS2)
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Wii)
• Gunpey DS (DS)
• Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (DS)
• Phoenix Wright: Justice For All (DS)
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (PC)
• Thrillville (PSP, PS2)
• Superman Returns (360, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
• Elite Beat Agents (DS)