Edge gives the answers other mags hide in crap! (Edge)

Name: Cuchulain

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Product:	Edge
Date:	23/02/01 (126 review reads)
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Advantages: Totally unbiased

Disadvantages: Erm... eh... no wait! I'll think of one... eh...

Edge is different from other videogame magazines. Most of the others are designed for kids and for either one of the console s ot the PC. Edge covers everything and holds no punches.

Where other mags like Nintendo Official Mag and Official PlayStation mag only look at the games for thes consoles, then Edge will look at both, rating them on the same scale, wheras a mag dedicated to the Nintendo consoles may be biased towrads the games, maybe even giving them higher rankings than they truly deserve.

Edge on the other hand looks at all games and revelations in the gaming/computing world, giving the most un-biased sensible reviews around. This magazine is also aimed at an older market than many of the others and takes gaming sensibly. With other mags I have felt that I am being either talked down to, the writer presuming I am a young child cos I play games, or even in a 'hip-trendy' way, confusing me for some deluded teenager. Edge was a revelation when i first picked it up a few months ago, while waiting for a delayed train. Thank you VirginTrains for being crappy! The reviews gave the details you need in a way you could understand. I have noticed that in some previews sections of other mags they give scor out of ten for how funny a game is. Who gives a flying monkeys? What is the gameplay like, and do the graphics/animations annoy you? Edge gives the answers other mags hise in crap.

The layout is pretty cool and you can easily find the preview/review you noticed advertised in the contents page, which is another annoyance in other mags. The previews and reviews are well laid out and rely more on the description of the gameplay and their thoughts of the game rather than plastering the pages with hundreds of screenshots to cover up their literary inadequacies. The screenshots they do put in are well sized and add to the review rather than cause a diversion.

The interviews and industry reports are probably the best bit about the
mag, and always full of interesting reasonably up-to-date information. I say reasonably up-to-date because it is a magazine and not a web-site, which is more up to date due to having to be printed and distributed. Seeing as Daily Radar UK is the publisher's games web-site I don't think we will be seeing www.edge-magazine.co.uk anytime soon.

The interviews are also well though-out and the background information given on the pages on the interviewee may remind you who the person is they are taking to. And these too are totally unbiased - they would ask Hideo Kojima (creator of Metal Gear Solid) about the X-Box and GameCube as well as talking about MGS2 and PlayStation2. That makes a big change from sychophantic PS2 mag's interviewers not veering off their PS2 only questions.

Free gifts? Do we need free gifts? I don't think so, and seeing as all the consoles will use different types of disc to run their games from, Cover Discs are out of the question. Not much of a problem until you have to fork out nearly £4 for it and compare this with other no-freebie magazines priced at about £1 to £1.50 less.

But once you read it you won't worry about the higer cost. The in-depth reviews, previews, interviews and news will all stop your complaints. If anyone wants to know more about games and the games industry then this is the mag to get.

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