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| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 
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| Publisher: Ziff Davis Media
Category: Magazine
List Price: $71.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 251
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7PX
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Ok Game October 9, 2005
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
This game is pretty fun if you have some time to burn and the fact that its free is nice too, but if you like morpgs then this is not the game for you because when you play all the other online players are only in the towns and not any other places on the outside map unless you form a group in the towns.
 Great magazine! September 12, 2005
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
This magazine has great reviews, previews, and coverage of all games and systems. The review system is one of the best and most objective.
 Mainstream fluffers July 26, 2005
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
I grew up with this magazine, and it was definitely one of the first out there covering the 8-bit hobby that was gaming--it was also the best. I've read this magazine on and off since 1990, and up until around 2000-2001 it was all great. The magazine did a great job in its coverage of our fair video gaming, so I decided to finally take a subscription in the Fall of 2001. I have come to realize it was a big mistake.More and more, I noticed that the magazine was being stuffed with too many bad things. Large spreads on already hyped games, like Halo 2, being hyped games, like as Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, and kids playing old games seemed to fill the pages. Along with what to let your girlfriend play, because, you know, there is no such thing as the female gamer. How about articles on lesser hyped games? Or how about more about the industry, developers etc.? Not to say they didn't have good, but short (one page), articles once in a while, such as where our $50 goes to every time we buy a game, how to get bargains at game shops, and "Afterthoughts" with some developers; however, those were few and far between. As were non-irritating reviews. If you like 2-D graphics, colorful games, or Nintendo beware: Your mind will be likened to a child for doing so. "Kiddie" and "Baby Game(r)" seem to be their biased, preferred choice of insult. One reviewer said he could do without the animals in Star Fox: Assault. Hello?! Animals have been in Star Fox since...'93--the beginning. And the title is, um, Star FOX! Another called Mario Party 6 a "kid's game." They also put Kirby in the Baby Gamer section one issue.I have no problems with preference, but why the insults? Why must every game be expected to be so called "mature"--have blood splattering? They don't knock those games for being so. I guess some need to feel macho about their gaming choices. Sad, and pathetic, really. And what is up with calling certain games rehashes, such as the Mega Man X series, then praising Madden every year? The reviewers also tend to share their reviews with each other, which means you'll likely get "Don't listen to him/her!" from one reviewer in reference to another. The reasons vary from being a flat-out fanboy, to not knowing what the other reviewer is talking about. Sound professional? I can get that kind of crap on message boards...or here. And because they share reviews, one reviewer can be the sole focus of something like controls. Meaning, the other two will glide over the subject if another merely mentions it. Where are my 3 seperate opinions?! Add to all this: horrible letters from stupid people (How many pieces of pale, spotted flesh with video game characters tattoed on it do we need to see?), selected "previews" that are minimal, and poor coverage of the industry itself (see EGM's 2005 E3 coverage compared to Play magazine's 2005 E3 coverage--wow, just...pathetic) were the final straws in me wanting out. The only thing I will miss will be Seanbaby's hilarious slamming of all things awful, but I can still find that online.Thanks to others I did check out Play magazine, and what a difference it is. Play is upbeat and critical without sounding jaded and juvenile all the time. If your looking for a change, or want to see better coverage and not have your intelligence insulted, check out Play. Especially if you were once a fan of GameFan, and Next Generation magazine; Play feels like their spiritual successor. Sad, but this is how I feel for the current EGM. I am hoping with new blood, and, hopefully, in a number of years the mag will change for the better (as in having more depth and being fair to all games). For now, 2 stars is enough for the mag I once enjoyed so much--in this, its worst period so far.
 Simply OK.... July 13, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought a copy of this magazine for the Zelda coverage. After reading the wonderful Zelda article, I decided to explore the rest of the mag. What I discovered was a mixed bag. I'm a longtime subscriber to Game Informer, so most of my opinions are based on comparisons to that...
EGM had many articles of the kind that you wouldn't find in GI. GI focuses almost exclusively on the games themselves; EGM has more features on stuff like game-shopping venues, game development, etc. It was those parts that I enjoyed the most.
Unforgivably, EGM has no "preview" section. Unless they are doing a feature on a game, they barely touch on it, whereas GI gives extensive coverage on practically everything coming up.
The reviews...utterly confusing. I had to look all over the page just to find the freakin' scores. And yes, there are 3 scores for each game. This makes each review feel broken up, and in many cases, repetitive...
The "humor", however, was the deal-breaker. I like how GI keeps the jokes to snide industry commentary, with a touch of potty humor when it's unavoidable. This magazine seems to revel in being as filthy and nasty as possible. Throughout the magazine, I found so many references to various sexual things that it became impossible to count them all.
Overall, EGM is not as professional, well-formatted, or informative as GI. I would reccomend that magazine instead.
Best Game Mag out there June 26, 2005
2 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've basically tried every other mag on the market and this is the most honest and consistantly amusing. The articles may not be Shakespeare, but boy are they entertaining. I first started receiving this magazine when I was around 12 and have been an on-and-off again subscriber, though this is my fault because of my varying degrees of interest in gaming over the years. I still pick it up at newstands when in the airport and haven't been disappointed with it for as long as I can remember. Don't listen to the low reviews, this is a good magazine and it's frusterating to see people call its reviews biased when there are three reviewers for each game in order to limit inaccurate reviews.
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