PSM Issue 4 (Dec 1997)

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PSM Issue 4 (Dec 1997)

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Features:

Girls of Gaming lid sticker! Let Alana, Lara Croft, and Mace Daniels protect your console!
Parappa the Rapper "I Gotta Believe!" Sweepstakes contest.
The PSM Holiday Special '97 - Which games were Naughty? Which games were Nice? What does the PSM editorial staff want for the holidays? Avoid any 32-bit lumps of coal in your stocking with PSM's first-ever Holiday Special!
Girls and Gaming - Traditionally thought of as a boys-only club, gaming's femme fatales like Lara Croft, Jill Valentine, and Nina Williams are pulling more women into the folds. But what do these mysterious creatures known as "girls" actually want from a gaming experience? PSM investigates.
PSM Bonus Tip Sleeves - Cut-and-fold them to fit in their respective cases, and you'll have ready access to a handy moves list for all four characters in Fighting Force and some elite tips for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.
Departments:

Start (Chris Slate expounds on what the '97 holiday season holds for PlayStation gamers)
The PSM Team (A quick look at the seven regulars who make PSM each month)
Letters (You send 'em, we read 'em)
Link-Up (Find a pen pal or two)
Top This! (Can you beat the PSM editors at their own game to win an ASCII Arcade Stick?)
Challenge #1: Crash Bandicoot 2 - Acquire every crystal, clear gem, and coloured gem in the game.
Challenge #2: Test Drive 4 - Beat Noah's time of 10:406 on the Drag Strip.
Challenge #3: Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha - Perform every character's combos and special moves in expert training mode.
Marketplace (Buy, sell, and trade with other gaming maniacs around the world!)
Reset (Check out what's coming in next month's issue!)
Monitor (News, gossip, rants, etc...):

Diablo Sets PlayStation On Fire
Play Your PlayStation Game Discs On Your PC?
Vibration Might Still Be In Our Future!
Net Yaroze
Gossip - Crash 3 is on the way, Square to do own US publishing, Acclaim reorganizes, New Contra on the way?, Tekken 3 backgrounds stay, PlayStation MK4 up and running!
Nihon Game Otaku

Reviews:
Philips Magnavox SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor (1.5/5)
Nuby Remote Wizard wireless controllers (3.5/5)
ASCII PlayStation Carry Bag (No Rating Given)
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (5/5)
CART World Series (3/5)
NHL '98 (4.5/5)
Nightmare Creatures (3.5/5)
Pandemonium 2 (3/5)
Test Drive 4 (4/5)
Jet Moto 2 (3.5/5)
Mass Destruction (3/5)
Need For Speed: V-Rally (3.5/5)
Cool Boarders 2 (3.5/5)
Tomb Raider 2 (5/5)
Red Asphalt (3/5)
Rampage World Tour (2.5/5)
Fighting Force (3.5/5)
MDK (3/5)
Mortal Kombat Mytholgies: Sub-Zero (2.5/5)
Flashback (Re-reviewing old games to current standards):

Epidemic - Old Score: 4/5. New Score: 3/5.
Assault Rigs - Old Score: 4/5. New Score: 2/5.
NHL Face-Off - Old Score: 4/5. New Score: 2/5.
Backlog (Reviews for games released in the last few months):

Armored Core (4.5/5)
Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (3.5/5)
Brahma Force (4/5)
Bushido Blade (4.5/5)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (5/5)
City of Lost Children (3.5/5)
Clock Tower (3/5)
Colony Wars (5/5)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (4/5)
Disney's Hercules (3/5)
Fantastic Four (0.5/5)
Felony 11-79 (3/5)
Final Fantasy VII (5/5)
Ghost in the Shell (3.5/5)
G.Police (4/5)
Grand Tour Racing '98 (3.5/5)
Intelligent Qube (3.5/5)
Jurassic Park: The Lost World (2.5/5)
Machine Hunter (4/5)
Madden '98 (3/5)
Marvel Superheroes (4/5)
Mechwarrior 2 (3/5)
Mega Man 8 (4/5)
Mega Man X4 (4/5)
Namco Museum Vol. 4 (2/5)
NCAA Football '98 (3.5/5)
Need For Speed 2 (2.5/5)
NFL GameDay '98 (5/5)
NHL Powerplay '98 (3.5/5)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (4.5/5)
Ogre Battle (3/5)
Parappa the Rapper (5/5)
Porsche Challenge (4/5)
Power Slave (4/5)
Poy Poy (4/5)
Super Street Fighter Collection (5/5)
Syndicate Wars (3.5/5)
Psychic Force (3/5)
Rage Racer (3.5/5)
Rally Cross (4/5)
Resident Evil: Director's Cut (5/5)
Rush Hour (3/5)
Soul Blade (5/5)
Spider (3/5)
Steel Reign (3.5)
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha (4/5)
Suikoden (5/5)
Tecmo Stackers (2.5/5)
Time Crisis (4/5)
Treasures of the Deep (4.5/5)
Twisted Metal 2 (4.5/5)
Vandal Hearts (4/5)
VMX Racing (2.5/5)
Warcraft 2 (3.5/5)
Wild Arms (5/5)
Previews:

Breath of Fire III
Spawn: The Eternal
Final Fantasy Tactics
Auto Destruct
Skullmonkeys
NCAA GameBreaker '98
Pitfall 3-D
Batman & Robin
Super Motocross
Strategy (Hard-hitting tips and tricks for beating games):

Machine Hunter
Jurassic Park: The Lost World
NCAA Championship Football '98
Time Crisis
NFL GameDay '98
K-1: The Arena Fighters
Peak Performance
Disney's Hercules
NBA Shoot Out '97
Warcraft 2
Madden NFL '98
NBA Hang Time
MDK
NHL Break Away '98
NHL Powerplay '98
Treasures of the Deep
Nightmare Creatures
Game Shark Codes:
Ace Combat 2
Fantastic Four
Final Fantasy VII
Nuclear Strike
Steel Reign
Swagman

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Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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