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"Xbox Gamer Magazine"

New magazine is out for Xbox called Xbox Gamer, it's X Gamer's new name and design. Why would you want a mag without demo's I hear you ask ?

Free Splinter Cell Prima Strategy guide, just like the ones in Game at £12.99 anyone ? For £3.40 you get the mag and the guide.

Magazine itself is quite nice, though the writing style is somewhat laddish, but anyway there are reviews of Shenmue 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 Substnace, and Steel Battalion ! Is it worth £130 is probably the question we all want to know isn't it ? Read the review and make up your mind, for me it looks great, and if all goes well on My (relisted after some moron didn't pay) Gamecube auction, then I may well go for it.

Aside from that are previews of this year's big games, more reviews and all the usual.

All in all a worthy thing for £3.40.

Apologies if someone already posted about the free guide thing, but I know it might be of use to some of you.

~~Belldandy~~

New magazine is out for Xbox called Xbox Gamer, it's X Gamer's new name and design. Why would you want a mag without demo's I hear you ask ?

Free Splinter Cell Prima Strategy guide, just like the ones in Game at £12.99 anyone ? For £3.40 you get the mag and the guide.

Magazine itself is quite nice, though the writing style is somewhat laddish, but anyway there are reviews of Shenmue 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 Substnace, and Steel Battalion ! Is it worth £130 is probably the question we all want to know isn't it ? Read the review and make up your mind, for me it looks great, and if all goes well on My (relisted after some moron didn't pay) Gamecube auction, then I may well go for it.

Aside from that are previews of this year's big games, more reviews and all the usual.

All in all a worthy thing for £3.40.

Apologies if someone already posted about the free guide thing, but I know it might be of use to some of you.

~~Belldandy~~

Hmmm £130 for Steel Battalion? Sounds too pricey. If other games will be ble o take advantage of then peripheral, then yes, it is probably worth it. If not, then that's the price of a GC and there's no way it will sell many copies. Only the hardcore gamers will buy it.

i might buy it then return it under GAME's 10 day no fuss

:0)

i think that only applies to things like games, consoles, pads etc. not magazines. they're not stupid. they know you could read everything in an hour or two and return it

Yeah I brought that Mag the other day.

Great mag heh? The old X-Gamer was a bit crap, But they've changed it a little and it looks great (including the woman on the front *Ahem*)

And the free Splinter Cell guide comes into great use. Next month its a DVD.

How did they rate Shenmue II?

4/5

And in my opinion it looks fantastic. Never played it before though....

It's great

They've so perfectly captured the mundaness and complete lack of excitement or fun in everyday jobs such as slowly driving crates backwards and forwards across a harbour.

Whitestripes wrote:
> They've so perfectly captured the mundaness and complete lack of
> excitement or fun in everyday jobs such as slowly driving crates
> backwards and forwards across a harbour.

There's more to it than that - like, er, collecting little plastic figures for instance.... and punching & kicking thin-air in empty car parks....

Shenmue is a cool game.

Don't forget the pure exhileration of watching the same 'buy can and watch him drink it and drop it in the bin' animation over and over again.

Plus the bonus of buying crisps and chocolate and not being able to eat them.

*hyperventilates*