27th July 2003, 5:59 PM
Quote:I haven't read my two or three issues from '95 and '96 in a while, I admit... but I remember them well enough.
Letters, news, reviews (fair number of pages, but 3 per page with 4 reviewers and ads on half the pages), info pages/previews (I mean the many pages of one or two page short previews of games which I think aren't out, but might be. Not sure about that... its got format details and game info and stuff but not a review. A bunch of pages of that...), strategy guide stuff (one has a insert with special moves for a fighting game), etc... and lots of ads of course.
And you are right most of the pages are those previews (of unrealeased games?) and articles.
Of course, PC gaming mags are different... focuses are on feature articles and reviews...
Yes I am right. And what GR posted is from one of the slowest months of the year for video games, so that issue is smaller than usual. EGM's issues from September through January are usually pretty damn big, much bigger than PC Gamer ever gets (and did you see PC Gamer's 100th issue? It was tiny!). And as GR pointed out there are many more ads in PC Gamer than there are in EGM, most likely due to the fact that EGM has a larger readership than PCG does.
Quote:Yes, it could/should have been better. But it just wasn't totally negligent... yes more detail would be nice but there is enough for a decent amount of info...
No there wasn't. You could find much more info in EGM's review of the game. What EGM often does is have a large preview of the game in the same or previous issue that the game is reviewed, so you get plenty of information on the game.