Archive: E3 2008 Previews / GamesMaster
If you’re wondering why it’s taken me till Feburary 2009 to post about previews I wrote for GamesMaster over six months ago – admittedly these previews featured in the October 2008 issue of GamesMaster – well, the answer is that I forgot to ask for a copy of the magazine for months.
Well, I have a copy now and I’ve seen my previews of Mirror’s Edge, Fable II, Left 4 Dead, Lips, Guitar Hero: World Tour and MadWorld, and they please me.
If you’ve never seen a copy of GamesMaster, it’s pretty unusual – very kid-orientated, it’s got an astonishingly crowded, text and image heavy design – sort of like Famitsu or the (now departed) EGM have been at points in their history, but far more irreverent than either have ever managed. It was my great pleasure to write for the magazine (which is itself a unique experience, fitting my text around the design…) and I look forward to the next time I do it.
“Even though I wasn’t born until nearly 40 years after the end of World War II, whenever I hear the Colonel Bogey March I can’t help but sing the song about how Hitler’s only got one ball. And I wonder, does it still have any resonance with the younger generation? Do they recognise it? Is it still sung in playgrounds, or would they think I’ve just written down something unnecessarily crude about one of the 20th century’s greatest monsters – if they even know who Hitler is? Well, whatever they think, the fact I remember gives the second stage of Major Minor’s Majestic March a very lewd and subversive feel.”