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EGM Anagrams To Electronic Geeks Masturbating To Bad Grammar

The worst, infamous trespasser in falsifying it's "okay" for underdeveloped adults to play video games is EGM--substanceless, vacuous sensationalist rag plotted to mass-popularize video games through enticing marketing featuring the same ploys alcohol and Girls Gone Wild hucksters use: misusing sex and a frat-boy, party veneer although it's doubtful adults reading this magazine ever experience real sex with live people!!!! EGM is intended for the lowest, meanest, bottom-feeding non-sophisticates with no education, subtlety, wit, humor or maturity because its inferior articles--really defensive alibis meant to show that "writers" who work at such a brainless magazine aren't illiterate--resort to grade-school, bathroom humor; include profanity like "bitch" or "ass"; reference lewd sexual double-entendres; stoop to the basest of clichés in the feeble struggles at wit by the unqualified "writers," etc., etc..

Absolute Trash
When I first began recieving EGM (I got it for free for three years, because they're incapable of selling this crap), it was an okay magazine.

It's done nothing but go downhill from there. First of all, the ONLY time there is an article longer than a single page (if you could call two paragraphs with a couple of screenshots a page) is if the game is Halo, Half-Life, Doom, or something similiar. Any game that doesn't have a lot of guns and a lot of mainstream hype is apparently not worthy of EGM's mention. There are plenty of ads, but hardly any content on games. And what content there is on games is never on the unique stuff gamers really want to hear about. It isn't difficult to get Halo information...give us something else, please!!!

Second, they're irresponsible. Last year they began a contest that required readers to send in a video tape and two reviews they had written. These were rules that could be found on their website, IF you could navigate the poorly designed thing. Midway, they changed these rules, negating the video tape rule. For about a week these rules were changed on the website, then went back to the old rules. However, nothing was ever mentioned anywhere on whether or not this was correct. Many people were confused. And only people who had sent in video tapes were considered for the contest, meaning EGM refused to take responsibilty for a mess on their poorly maintained website. Maybe if they'd used their MAGAZINE to keep people updated...but no, they did not.

Third, you would think that a magazine with a woman on the staff wouldn't be so sexist. Not so of EGM. Their comments in the vein of "Even your girlfriend will like (insert title of cute, family friendly game here)" drove me mad! What, girls can't play games with guns? Pfft! That sexist attitude reached such disgusting heights that I throw away my copy of EGM whenever I recieve it and eagerly await the end of my subscription.

Don't pay money for this trash. Don't even accept it if they offer it for free, it isn't worth it. Try Game Informer, a far superior magazine, instead.

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Gamer's In Detail
Video game magazines have been all the rage in our lives. Yet there are just so many of them that tell different stories for different video game systems. That has been the case with one of the biggest-selling ones of all time, Gamepro. They truly have made it one the most provocative and well in-depth magazines with detail about what games are popular according to their writers, and what upcoming games and systems are all in the works. The magazine is quite well, but I honestly do wish they could try to publish more in the way of codes and helpful hints for several games for Gamecube and Game Boy Advance, when most of it primarily focuses in on Playstation 2 & Xbox. Yet, Gamepro really handles itself as a very deep gamer's magazine. Anybody who wants to be enjoy the field of video games, this magazine is worth reading.

Overall: B 1/2+

The worst gaming magazine
As you can tell by the title, I'm not enamored of this magazine. I've been playing video games since the early 80s, and have read many, many gaming magazines. My reasons for this negative review of Gamepro follow in no particular order: 1.) Their numerical rating system stinks. 1-5 points is just not accurate enough. Most mags/web sites have a 1-10 system with decimals. Not Gamepro. 2.) The written part of the reviews are way too short, and often are written borderline incoherantly. It's as if they hired the proverbial 1,000 monkeys to type them out. 3.) Often times they cram two or three reviews on one page. Screen shots provided with reviews are often the size of a postage stamp. 4.) The number of ads in relation to content is distinctly high. Once when I was bored, I counted all the ads in one issue. Out of around 110 pages there were 60+ pages of ads. 5.) Their article layouts are confusing, and occasionally they print on colored backgrounds that closely match the text color. Forget about reading it if you're colorblind. 6.) Their gaming tips are either so obvious that a brain dead chimpanzee could figure them out, or plain don't work. I suspect that the ones that do are ripped off from various web sites. 7.) Gamepro costs the same as better gaming mags, such as EGM and Game Informer. So, in closing... if you want a good gaming magazine, just about any magazine other than Gamepro would be an improvement. Many great magazines have come and gone, why a turd like Gamepro continues is a mystery to me.

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