It's on right now and I'm cringing with every passing moment. So many wrong choices, and they're trying so hard to be funny! This is beyond terrible.

That's right! Two things, first off, I have invented a word to describe that phenomenon when a site starts spraying advertising for one product all over their format. Second off, GameFAQs now has pages where the format is altered to incorporate all manner of advertising for things, just like IGN. Check out their Gamecube page to see for yourself. Fortunatly, it's a LOT tamer than what IGN does (just a banner ad and a color change).

Only the British one mind you. Now, first off since they are in fact a private organization (I think :D), they can do as they will. However, they are called the Red CROSS! Under this new rule, won't they have to change their name? Unless they mean to go to what the cross USED to represent, that is pain and suffering.

From 1up.com:

Quote:By David Smith
12/4/2003

The latest issue of Nintendo Dream magazine offers clarification as to exactly what games will be included when Nintendo publishes The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords for GameCube in Japan next February. The four-player action-RPG based on the 16-bit Link to the Past will also include a few of the other experimental projects shown at E3 this year.
In addition to the main Four Swords adventure, where four players can control four Links using the Game Boy Advance or GameCube controller for cooperative play, the disc will also include the Tetra's Trackers stamp-collecting game shown at E3. Tetra's Trackers, starring the eponymous pirate queen in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, challenges four players to hunt up hidden items around a series of large levels.

The disc will also include two games for single-player action. One, called "Shadow Battle," is a survival-type game where Link must battle a continuous stream of opponents. The other, entitled "Hyrule Adventure," is a more involved story-driven single-player campaign with some gameplay elements, like time travel, drawn from Link to the Past.

As mentioned above, Four Swords is scheduled for retail release in Japan in February. Nintendo has yet to confirm a Japanese retail price for the game, however, or any details regarding an American release. We'll update with the pertinent details as they arrive.

...and played it for about fifteen minutes so far.

Discuss.

Who's got it, and is it worth $50 when SSX 3 is such a great game?

Get rid of the stupid things. Both of you! :)

Else this stays. Or maybe I could find something bigger...

So they've decided to make their own Battlefied rip-off, Star Wars-style!

From The OPM site:

Quote: Ever wonder what makes your PC friends yap on about Battlefield 1942 all the time? You're about to find out -- but not in a World War II setting. Star Wars: Battlefront takes the idea behind 1942 and moves it to a galaxy far, far away.

In the latest issue of OPM (January 2004, which celebrates 2004's big games on the cover), we exclusively reveal the next major Star Wars game.

Think SOCOM's online-multiplayer experience, only with a wide variety of characters to choose from and a bunch of cool Star Wars vehicles to operate. You can play in the Galactic Civil War or the Clone Wars, meaning you can choose one of four armies to command (Rebels vs. Imperials or Republic vs. Separatists). You can't mix and match sides (e.g., no Republic vs. Empire), but battles can take place on any planet.

As for the vehicles, Battlefront includes pretty much every major ride you've seen in a Star Wars flick. Yes, even AT-ATs. Yes, even X-wings. Hell, you can even mount a tauntaun. Better yet, certain vehicles carry multiple troops: One player drives as the others man guns.

For plenty more info and screens on Star Wars Battlefront, make sure to pick up the new issue at your local newstand. Or, try to track down an OPM subscriber, who should have a copy in hand by the time you read this. Better yet, do yourself the favor and subscribe to OPM right now, just so you won't have to deal with waiting in the future.

By the way, in addition to sneak peaks at major 2004 games like Battlefront, the new issue of OPM includes playable demos of Rise to Honor, R-Type Final, Whiplash, Freedom Fighters, and many more.

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