GameInformer, the popular magazine about all things gaming that has somewhere near three million subscribers, always has a different game on the cover each time. MTV wanted to see if there was a GI cover curse, so they looked back into the past and pulled out magazines from 2-3 years ago.
One game titled Superman Returns didn't so well, receiving 6/10's. That's nothing compared to Fear and Respect, which was at one point on a GI cover, but ended up being canceled!
All in all, the games on GI's covers have turned out to do pretty good, except for a few oddball exceptions.
Over the years, gamers have seen dozens of high-profile titles make their world debut by being featured on the cover of Game Informer. In fact, if you’re a regular shopper at GameStop, you’re probably one of the magazine’s more than two million readers.
But does a game getting on Game Informer’s cover signal it’s going to be great?
Can you be confident that these debuts will, one or two years later, become games you want to buy and play? Perhaps the magazine has a “Madden” curse (though that was recently debunked) — or, instead, maybe it offers a Game Informer… blessing?
News Story attached to:
- Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles [DS, PC, PS3, XBOX360]
- Batman Begins [GBA, PSP, PS2, GC, Xbox, Movie]
- Blue Dragon [XBOX360]
- Borderlands [XBOX360, PS3, PC]
- Bully [Xbox, PS2]
- Call of Duty: Finest Hour [PC, GC, PS2, Xbox]
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare [DS, PC, XBOX360, PS3]
- Condemned: Criminal Origins [XBOX360]
- Crackdown [XBOX360]
- Dark Sector [PS3, XBOX360, PC]
- Dead Space [PC, XBOX360, PS3]
- Dead to Rights II [PC]
- Def Jam: Icon [PS3, XBOX360, Xbox, PS2, GC]
- Devil May Cry 4 [PC, XBOX360, PS3]
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion [PS3, XBOX360, PC]
- Fallout 3 [XBOX360, PS3, PC]
- Fear & Respect [XBOX360, PS2, Xbox]
- Fight Night Round 3 [PS3, PS2, Xbox, PSP, XBOX360]
- Gears of War [PC, XBOX360]
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game [XBOX360, Wii, PS3, PS2, PC, DS]
- God of War II: Divine Retribution [PS2]
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [PC, Xbox, PS2]
- Gran Turismo 4 [PS2]
- Grand Theft Auto IV [PC, XBOX360, PS3]
- Gun: Showdown [PC, GC, XBOX360, Xbox, PS2, PSP]
- Halo 2 [PC, Xbox]
- Jak 3 [PS2]
- Killer 7 [PS2]
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne [PS2, Xbox, PC]
- Medal of Honor: Vanguard [Wii, PS3, XBOX360, Xbox, PS2, PC]
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots [PS3]
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes [GC]
- Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition [PS2, Xbox]
- Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks [DS, PS2, Xbox]
- Need For Speed Carbon [GC, XBOX360, Xbox, Wii, PC, PS2, PS3]
- Prototype [PC, XBOX360, PS3]
- Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal [PS2]
- Red Steel [Wii]
- Resident Evil 4 [PC, GC, PS2]
- Spider-Man 2 [GBA, NGAGE, PC, Xbox, GC, PS2, PSX]
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory [GC, PS2, PC, Xbox]
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed [Wii, XBOX360, PSP, PS3, PS2, DS]
- The Warriors [PSP, Xbox, Movie, PC, PS2]
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 [XBOX360, PSP, PS3, PC]
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It's just so some kid sees Sonic on the cover and buys the magazine.
WHAT A PECULIAR PATTERN HERE.
GameInformer's not stupid, they're only gonna pick games with tremendous hype and tremendous production budgets. More often than not, those two forces are enough to make a good game.
I doubt there's one though.