{"id":32833,"date":"2024-03-08T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:18:07","slug":"electronic-gaming-monthly-may-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/electronic-gaming-monthly-may-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Gaming Monthly (May 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FElectronic_Gaming_Monthly%2Fegm_2007-05&amp;twg_show=Electronic+Gaming+Monthly+05_2007-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32837\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-001-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-001-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-001-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-001.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FElectronic_Gaming_Monthly%2Fegm_2007-05&amp;twg_show=Electronic+Gaming+Monthly+05_2007-001.jpg\">Electronic Gaming Monthly &#8211; May 2007<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was getting close to end days for EGM. Sadly, the time I had for gaming was already greatly reduced by this time. I was probably mostly playing Mario Kart on the Wii. I definitely wasn&#8217;t buying EGM anymore at this time except for maybe a very occasional issue. The May 2007 issue of EGM includes:<\/p>\n<h1>Cover Story<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Future of Gaming<\/b> &#8211; Article that looks at the next 20 years of gaming. This issue is from 2007 so we are getting pretty close to that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Letters<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Literacy: It&#8217;s fun for everyone<\/b> &#8211; Reader letters about failed systems and bad controllers, emulation on the PS3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Guitar Hero II, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"attachment wp-att-32836\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=32836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32836\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-010-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-010-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-010-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-010-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-010.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Press Start<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Feature: Brain Watch<\/b> &#8211; How video games affect your brain and how developers are taking advantage of this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Foreign Object<\/b> &#8211; A brief look at Fist of the North Star, a Japan release for the PS2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Online Scene<\/b> &#8211; The results of pointless polls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Preview: Ninja Gaiden Sigma<\/b> &#8211; The first PS3 release for this action game franchise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Afterthoughts: MotorStorm<\/b> &#8211; An interview with MotorStorm Producer Simon Benson about the game and ideas for the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Preview: Team Fortress 2<\/b> &#8211; The long awaited sequel from Valve for the PS3 and Xbox 360.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Take This Job<\/b> &#8211; An interview with he Director of Platform Strategy for Microsoft, Scott Henson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Preview WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006<\/b> &#8211; A wrestling game from THQ for the PS3 and Xbox 360. I haven&#8217;t played a wrestling game since the WWF&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Feature: Top 10 Worst Achievements<\/b> &#8211; The worst in game achievements. Includes things such as Total Playtime 100 Hours (Dead or Alive 4), Online with 1,000 People (NBA Live 07), and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Preview: Forza Motorsport 2<\/b> &#8211; A next gen racing game from Microsoft for the Xbox 360.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Afterthoughts: God of War II<\/b> &#8211; An interview with Director God of War II, Cory Barlog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Rumor Mill<\/b> &#8211; Rumors regarding a new Knights of The Old Republic games, Dragon Age on the PS3, Baldur&#8217;s Gate for the DS, a new Halo game, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Big Ones<\/b> &#8211; A brief look at upcoming releases including Final Fantasy XIII (PS3), Halo 3 (Xbox 360), Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3), and Resident Evil 5 (PS3, Xbox 360).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Coming Soon<\/b> &#8211; More previews including Spider-Man 3 (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, DS), Tenchu Z (Xbox 360), The Darkness (PS3, Xbox 360), Command &amp; Conquer 3 (Xbox 360), Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PS2, PSP), Touch of the Dead (DS), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, DS), Dawn of Mana (PS2), and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"attachment wp-att-32835\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=32835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32835\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-011-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-011-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-011-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-011-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-011.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Reviews<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Super Paper Mario<\/b> &#8211; The latest Paper Mario game for the Wii.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cooking Mama: Cook Off<\/b> &#8211; I don&#8217;t really understand the appeal of a cooking game but I guess it plays more as a series of mini-games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Medal of Honor: Vanguard<\/b> &#8211; Apparently not one of the better FPS games in this series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion<\/b> &#8211; This is a series of games that I have wanted to play for a long time but have never gotten around to. I had a friend in college who played Arena (Elder Scrolls I), another who played Daggerfall (Elder Scrolls II)&#8230;both buggy as hell and I guess that&#8217;s what turned me off. Then I played a little bit of Morrowind (Elder Scrolls III) as part of a school project. This is a review of Oblivion (Elder Scrolls IV) on the PS3. If I ever play it, it will be on the PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Earth Defense Force 2017<\/b> &#8211; An arcade style 3D shooter for the Xbox 360 where you run around blowing up UFOs, giant robots, giant insects and other things that would destroy the Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2<\/b> &#8211; Another FPS series that just seemed to keep going. This iteration was apparently pretty good though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales<\/b> &#8211; A simple RPG for the Nintendo DS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wario: Master of Disguise<\/b> &#8211; A decent action platform game for the DS but not as good as other Wario Land games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Custom Robo Arena<\/b> &#8211; Build and battle robots on the Nintendo DS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lost in Blue 2<\/b> &#8211; A not so great game full of mini-games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Game Over<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Seanbaby&#8217;s Rest of the Crap<\/b> &#8211; Next gen video game technologies that just didn&#8217;t work out including the Mindlink (Atari 2600), R.O.B. (NES), U-Force (NES), The Interactor (SNES, Genesis), and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Retro: Utopia or Dystopia?<\/b> &#8211; A look at retro games with a vision of the future including Crystalis (NES), Ratchet &amp; Clank (PS2), Mega Man (NES), Snatcher (Sega CD), Chrono Trigger (SNES), Shadowrun (Genesis), F-Zero (SNES), and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Final Word<\/b> &#8211; The editors predict the future. Plus, a sneak peak at next month&#8217;s issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32834\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-104-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-104-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-104-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-104-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Electronic-Gaming-Monthly-05_2007-104.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly &#8211; May 2007 This was getting close to end days for EGM. Sadly, the time I had for gaming was already greatly reduced by this time. I was probably mostly playing Mario Kart on the Wii. I definitely wasn&#8217;t buying EGM anymore at this time except for maybe a very occasional issue. The May 2007 issue of EGM includes: Cover Story The Future of Gaming &#8211; Article that looks at the next 20 years of gaming. This issue is from 2007 so we are getting pretty close to that. Letters Literacy: It&#8217;s fun for everyone &#8211; Reader letters about failed systems and bad controllers, emulation on the PS3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Guitar Hero II, and more. Press Start Feature: Brain Watch &#8211; How video games affect your brain and how developers are taking advantage of this. Foreign Object &#8211; A brief look at Fist of the North Star, a Japan release for the PS2. Online Scene &#8211; The results of pointless polls. Preview: Ninja Gaiden Sigma &#8211; The first PS3 release for this action game franchise. Afterthoughts: MotorStorm &#8211; An interview with MotorStorm Producer Simon Benson about the game and ideas for the future. Preview: Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[627,635,2835,2524],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-egm","tag-electronic-gaming-monthly","tag-magazine","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33278,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions\/33278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}