This really is an all round Nintendo magazine! (N64 Magazine)

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Product:	N64 Magazine
Date:	05/08/01 (166 review reads)
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Advantages: Fair reviews, resonable priced, loads of info

Disadvantages: They love Nintendo a bit to much

Named N64 Magazine, but is alot more than a dying console's magazine! N64 mag has being doing what all the playstation magazine’s did but better, as has slowly integrated itself into an all round Nintendo magazine.

While magazines give you news, N64 mag gives you all the news you can handle and then some, giving you all the news from around the Nintendo world with issualy updates on how good the Game Cube is and how it will redefine the way we look at games forever, how many N64 games have been canned or the release dates have been put back another month, and little snippets of news which aren't important but do add a little humour to the mag and give its special touch. One bad thing about the news section is the magazines Pokemon section, even the best mags must join the ever-growing Pokemon bandwagon, and this is really something the kids, letting them know what is happening in the world of their favourite pocket monsters.

The previews section is pure quality and done with brilliance, while still previewing the ever shrinking N64 list of games, it previews the ever growing quality games which are coming out for the Game Cube. Not only does the magazine give you the rundown on the games plot and all the information on characters, but they give you a release dates, number of players, if it uses the rumble, the expansion pack or memory card and whole bunch of other vital information other magazines just don't.

While the mag integrates the N64 stuff with the Game Cube stuff, they decided to give the Game Boy it's own section. This section may become a bit of annoyance if you don't have a GBC or a GBA, but if you do as you two magazines for the price of two. It gives all the Game Boy news, previews, reviews on all the new games and cheats and codes for your new and old Game Boy games alike. To cut down the annoyance for non Game Boy owners, the section is only a few pages long but this is done well enough to keep
both members of the Nintendo community happy.

While it still reviews all the U.K, U.S and Japanese N64 games and the magazine will soon tell us all we need to about those all-important Game Cube games. After giving you a rundown on the plot, characters and level layout, it will begin telling you what’s wrong or right with a game in all departments, like graphics, difficulty, playability and more. In a small column down the side it has all the games advantages and disadvantages, an alternative game (so if you like this game you might like that one or if this one is not up to your standard try that one), then it gives a score out of ten in visuals, sounds, mastery and lifespan and gives you a little snippet on what they thought of each department, then they take an average and give it as a percentage for the final score (if a game gets over 85% it is classed as a star game). This column is excellent if you haven't got time to read the full review.

The Club 64 section is all about you, with the mailbox, where you can write in and tell them what you think or just tell them a funny story and if you win the star letter you get some Nintendo goodies. This section also has correction corner (where you correct the magazines mistake in previous issues), a section which varies from websites to check out to games that you would like to see, bargin hunter where readers send in there amazing cheap finds and the notice board where all your sent in pics get shown.

Club 64 has also a section for your best scores in many N64 games. It also has an extensive range of cheats, from quirky fun ones to serious game guides, the magazine also lets readers writing in with action reply codes, their own cheats and a section where you write in and ask for help from Dr. Kitts.

There is a huge directory with all the games the have reviewed over hear and on import and if the game is a star game they give you a little cheat to help you along.


The mag is priced at £3.30, but with that each issue you get a free tips book and a £5 voucher for GAME, excellent!

This magazine is great, much better than any other N64 one, with its fair reviewing, sophisticated writing and a little touch of humour hear and there it is a must buy for every Nintendo fan.

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