Next Generation Issue 52 (April 1999)

Analyzing

• S3 Announces Savage 4
  Texture Compression and low cost touted
• Playstation 2 Shows its Guts – Maybe
  Toshiba and Sony’s Ken Kutaragi unveil a new chip
• Sony Sues Connectix
  Suit raises questions about legitimacy of unlicensed emulators
• Microsoft Charts Dreamcast Strategy
  Microsoft unveils its strategy to lure developers to Windows CE for Dreamcast
• Done with Diablo
  Two former Blizzard boys form Click Entertainment
• Fighter Maker
  If you’ve ever looked at a fighting game and said, “I could do better than that,” well, now’s your chance

NG Japan

• Neo Geo Pocket Color
• Bomberman 64
• Jammer Lammy

Dreamcast

• Next Generation tracks the progress of Sega’s dream machine
• Shenmue
• Sega Rally 2 (Rated 4.5 out of 5)
• Evolution (Rated 3 out of 5)
• Frame Gride
• Maken X
• Flight Shooting
• Space Griffon

Alpha’s

• Team Fortress 2
• Unreal Tournament
• Bust A Move 2: Dance Paradise Mix
• Gran Turismo 2
• Shadow Man
• Um Jammer Lammy
• Road Rash 64
• Jade Cocoon: The Story of Tamamayu

Milestones

• Final Fantasy VIII
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• Jet Force Gemini
• Trans-Am Racing
• Vampire
• Heavy Gear 2
• Daikatana
• Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

NG Special

• Learning Curves – Having been stuck in neutral for many years while others around it overtook, the racing genre has finally found first gear and undergone a major shift. Next Generation dons its overalls and dives under the hood of today’s racing videogames.

Talking

• A Life Less Ordinary – Interview with Gabe Newell (cofounder of Valve)

Finals

• Baldurs Gate (Rating 5 out of 5)
• Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri (Rating 5 out of 5)
• Silent Hill (Rating 5 out of 5)
• Akuji The Heartless (Rating 3 out of 5)
• Bomberman Fantasy Racing (Rating 3 out of 5)
• Civilization II (Rating 5 out of 5)
• Contender (Rating 1 out of 5)
• Dead in the Water (Rating 2 out of 5)
• Guardian’s Crusade (Rating 4 out of 5)
• Street Fighter Zero 3 (Rating 4 out of 5)
• WCW/NWO Thunder (Rating 3 out of 5)
• Syphon Filter (Rating 4 out of 5)
• Wargasm (Rating 2 out of 5)
• Return to Krondor (Rating 3 out of 5)
• Thief (Rating 4 out of 5)

Advance Stratagies

• Silent Hill: Part Two

Ending

• Intellivision Lives!
• The Boys from the Darkside Part 2 (about Sam and Jack Tramiel)
• Letters