Source: Edge – Issue Number 128 – October 2003
Edge is a multi-format gaming magazine published in the U.K. It has been around since October 1993 and once upon a time it shared some content with Next Generation. If you liked the content of that magazine, you might like this one. The October 2003 issue includes:
Features
- 9/11 is a joke – Edge ponders the questions provoked by games with content based on horrific real-life events.
- Score Wars – Hi-score tables: once upon a time the only way to gain gaming status. And now they’re back.
- Edge’s Ten Commandments – Ten simple yet obvious rules of game design that we believe should apply to every game ever made.
- Ten Top Tens – The best 100 games of all time. Ever. Part two. But by all means feel free to disagree…
- Perfect 10? – In ten years Edge has only given out its maximum mark four times.But what is an Edge 10/10?
Prescreen
- O.TO.GI 2 (Xbox)
- SWAT: Global Strike Team (PS2, Xbox)
- Chrome (PC)
- Call of Duty (PC)
- Xyanide (Xbox)
- Spider-Man 2 (PS2, Xbox, GC)
- Katmari Damashi (PS2)
- Dragon Quest VIII (PS2)
- Dance UK (PS2)
- True Crimes: Streets of LA (PS2, GC, Xbox)
- Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (PS2, PC)
- THUG (PS2, Xbox, GC)
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (GC)
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Xbox, PC)
- Prescreen Alphas (various)
Regulars
- Frontend – SCE and its PSP; Bedroom coding; Xbox/Nintendo conferences
- Out There – Justin Timberlake; Maxx Payne (the wrestler); GTA holiday
- RedEye – Viewtiful Joe induces a joypad-throwing fit
- Trigger Happy – Steven Poole lists the ten things games have taught him
- AV Out – Japan should work harder and produce better games
- Biffovision – Mr Biffo turns into careers officer mode
- Subscribe – Money off and free delivery – how can you resists?
- Back issues – Quick, before they sell out
- Retrotest – It’s 1978. Edge reviews Space Invaders
- The making of… – Edge. Come on, it is our birthday…
- Reset – E1 put through the rememberiser
- Recruitment – Your chance to work in the games industry
- Inbox – Ten years’ worth of your opinions on the world of videogaming
- Next month – Edge visits “the excitement company”
Testscreen
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox, PC)
- Republic: The Revolution (PC)
- Boktai (GBA)
- R-Type Final (PS2)
- F-Zero GX (GC)
- Freedom Fighters (PS2, Xbox, GC)
- Star Wars: Galaxies – An Empire Divided (PC)
- The Italian Job: LA Heist (PS2, Xbox, GC)
- Group S Challnge (Xbox)
- Downhill Domination (PS2)
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GC)
- Space Channel 5: Ulala’s Cosmic Attack (GBA)
- Winning Eleven 7 (PS2)
…and more!