_{Cover of the Holiday 2007 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly}

While EGM was one of the best and best selling game magazines of all time, it was getting pretty close to the end of its life by this time. The final original issue would be published in January 2009, about a year after this issue. The Holiday 2007 issue includes:

Press Start

• Letters - Some comments about Nintendo publishers' declining game quality, shorter games, video game testing, controller abuse, religion in games, and more.


• Holiday Buyers' Guide - A guide to the best gifts for 2007. Some of the items mentioned include a trip to Jules' Undersea Lodge ($475/night), VEXplorer Robot Kit ($200), Pipe Dream for the Game Boy ($12/used), Shock Ball ($20), Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp ($9000/5 days), Master Chief Mimobot USB stick (I have an R2D2 one of these), Zelda Animated Series DVD ($25), Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel ($130), Mushroom Lamp ($12), Atari Keychain ($45 for 3 different ones), 8-bit Tie ($20), and lots more.


• Foreign Object - A look at SNK's Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!...a game that teaches you to be a pervert.


• Ask the Pros: Halo 3 - Some of the best players and how they play the game.


• Preview: Unreal Tournament 3 - Coming soon for the PS3. But will it match up to the PC version?

_{Table of Contents from the Holiday 2007 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly}

Reviews

• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - Historic, perahsp, for teaming up Mario and Sonic for the first time but the game itself is a pretty mediocre sports game.


• Geometry Wars: Galaxies - A classic gaming inspired shooter for the Wii that is quite good but you need the classic controller to really enjoy it.


• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - Another game in this strategy/RPG from Nintendo. The biggest change from the previous game in the series is being able to save during battle.


• Need for Speed: ProStreet - I solid entry in the Need for Speed series. What was this, like the 150th one?


• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground - This skateboarding game for the PS3 and Xbox 360 is pretty average but if you like Tony Hawk and skateboarding and gaming then you will probably like it.


• Manhunt 2 - A murder/adventure game for the Wii and PS2 that isn't quite as good as the original (which wasn't spectacular or anything to begin with).


• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Call of Duty...you love it or hate it I guess. Or both. But it gets a pretty good review here for the PS3 and Xbox 360.


• BlackSite: Area 51 - A pretty mediocre first person shooter. But hey, there's mutant alien things.


• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - An FPS built for co-op play for the Xbox 360 though oddly you can't play online.


• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - This action game gets good reviews here. It doesn't seem like that long ago that this came out. But then the movie came out more recently I suppose. I thought it was pretty disappointing but what do you expect from a movie based on a game...

_{Table of Contents from the Holiday 2007 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (continued)}

Game Over

• Seanbaby's Rest of the Crap - Some of the um... less positive aspects of Christmas. Including The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause game for the Game Boy Advance, Elf Bowling: The Movie, Christmas Country for the CD-i, Santa Clause Saves the Earth for the GBA, and Elf: The Movie for the GBA, among other tidbits.


• Retro: WTFiction!? - A look back at Final Fantasy VII's convoluted and somewhat nonsensical story.


• Grudge Match - Assassin's Creed vs. Creed.

_{Back cover of the Holiday 2007 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly}

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