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Received the latest issue from the post today, and it has to be one of the best ones n ages in terms of features. The mag goes on about the philosophy of reviews and review scores themselves, how much they "debated" over the Halo score.

The issue also contains a great feature on the influence of PR, a dance article and an extensive preview on Half Life. Finally, they also abandoned review scores, in a way.

When you see it in the shops, be sure to pick it up if you want a good read.

I will read it in WH Smith tomorrow, for free.

I thought that was a character from The Beano (the original cover-character)

Mr Biffo sucks.

Icarus wrote:
> Finally, they also abandoned review scores, in a way.

Eh? Their review scores were the only funneh bit in teh whole mag! What are they going to replace review scores with? Wait, lemme guess:

Much Better than GoldenEye
Better than GoldenEye
GoldenEye
Not as good as GoldenEye
Much Worse than GoldenEye

Am I close?

Edge is fantatstic (although i mainly get it for the jobs in the back :) ), it's intelligent, 99% well thought out (the 1% being the Halo score ;) ), doesn't waste space with pointless articles, never prints those "my mate says that wrestlemania X8 on the GC is wikkid, what do you think?" letter and (most importantly) has Mr Biffo writing a column!! :)

NOM is awful imo, it's just pandering to Nintendo at a ridiculous level. i understand that an official mag is going to be somewhat biased, but it's so predictable, Mario Sunshine=best platformer, Zelda=best rpg (although i'm with them on this one, it's ace :) ), Mario Kart=best racer, pikmin=best game involving pikmin.. they just seem to base the mag around tongue-holing nintendo... and that gets on my nerves.

still, to each their own..

oh, and get this months copy of gamesmaster mag, the mags not too great, but the dvd has the last episode of gamesmaster tv on it and it's pretty cool.. if only to mock Dave Perry and his sour grapes at failing on Mario 64 so badly :)

Edge just bores the pants off me.

So I read NGC - the only intelligable Nintendo magazine out there.

I used to like the nintendo mags. one used to tear into games for example:

'Superman 64 - pushing pins into your eyes would be preferable to playing this game, and less painful.'

'its funny because its true' - homer j

I prefer NOM.
I also prefer jibbering incessantly in corners, drinking milk out of cartons, wearing slippers on my hands and dancing to the music in my head.

Mr Sparkles wrote:
> Edge is a great mag but i prefer NOM

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Quite a contrast there.

Edge - for the intelligent, older kind of reader.
NOM - for complete and utter retards.

One magazine basically gets IGN articles/reviews, only their about 3 months old. Read IGN: save money

www.IGN.com

(I like my IGN)