THIS IS

AMIGA
POWER

OVER 300
GAMES RATED IN EVERY ISSUE!

EDITOR
Matt Bielby

PRODUCTION EDITOR
Mark Ramshaw

STAFF WRITER
Stuart Campbell

CONSULTANT EDITOR
Gary Penn

CONTRIBUTORS
Jonathan Davies
Andy Ide
Sean Masterson
Rich Pelley
Jane Toft

A big Amiga Power snog goes out to Kate Hodges and (especially) Tamara Ward for helping out with 'you know what'. We'll love you forever.

Amiga Power comes to you from the lovely sunny people at Future Publishing, Britain's biggest (and best!) publisher of 'leisure' computing magazines. Not only do we 'do' Amiga Format, Amiga Shopper, ST Format, Your Sinclair, Commodore Format, amstrad Action, New Computer Express, Sega Power, PC Plus, PC Answers (due any day now), 8000 Plus, MacPublishing (which you can't buy in the shops), Classic CD and Needlecraft (these last two aren't actually computer mags, but who's splitting hairs?) - we're cuddly too!

THE CHARTS
What's going up, what's coming down and what's hovering about in the middle somewhere - the 100 hottest games of the day, as voted for by you, the consumers, with your wallets.

COMPLETE CONTROL
The most reliable hints and tips in the business, here to give you Complete Control over your games. This month, level codes to Gem'X and Brat, cheats for a whole bundle of older things and - yes! - the second (and concluding) massive six-page (six-page!) final instalment of Gary's Complete Guide to Rainbow Islands. If there's ever been a more comprehensive guide to any game printed anywhere, we'd like to see it!

IT'S A SNIP!
Every month more and more excellent older games get re-released in the £7.99 - £10.99 price bracket - and few better than the 20 we recommend here. (Now there's no decent excuse for not owning them...)

CREATION, 'BOB' AND POPULOUS II
The whole god-sim concept takes two giant steps forward, jumps to the side, and then heads off in three or four different directions at once. Peter Molyneux and the Bullfrog crew show us how...

IF I'D KNOWN THEN...
Eric Matthews recovers from the (really quite mild) critical nitpicking Gods recieved last issue, dusts himself down, and then tells us what he really thinks of the Bitmaps' old games...

THE BOTTOM LINE
Amiga Power's unique reference to every significant full price game released over the past year. Six pages packed to overflowing with Uppers, Downers and - yes! - the all important Bottom Line...

DO THE WRITE THING
Letters of praise, more letters of praise and - inevitable really - a few whinges from publishers still smarting from last month's critical drubbings. Reaction to the first issue was, erm, 'varied' to say the least...

GAMES OF THE MONTH

THE SECET OF MONKEY ISLAND
Quite simply, the best adventure game we've ever seen.

LORDS OF CHAOS
Not quite the Laser Squad sequel we expected, but...

WONDERLAND
Long awaited certainly, but worth it? Well...

SWITCHBLADE II
Arcade-quality gameplay, and graphics that fit.

HILL STREET BLUES
Would you believe, a policeman's Sim City...?

3D CONSTRUCTION KIT
Erm, well, no - it's not actually a game as such...

HERO QUEST
Board game in 3D isometric romp shock!

MEGATRAVELLER 1
Introducing: the world's second favourite role player...

ALSO REVIEWED
Alpha Waves
Amiga Encounter
Centurion
Disc
Heart of the Dragon
Hydra
I Play 3D Soccer
Jahangir Khan's World Championship Squash
Mercs
Predator 2
Shadow Dancer
Stormball
Tetris
Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire
Warzone
White Sharks
Ziriax

BUDGET
California Games
Enchanter
IK+
The Jungle Book
Kamikaze
Kult
Miami Chase
North and South
Platoon
Sherman M4
Switchblade
Toobin'
The Winning Team
Zork I
Zork II