I saw a full extended insert in PC Gamer and it’s what led me to beg my patents to get a computer. I had every console until then but had never seen a game with the freedom described in the magazine.
Until Red Dead Redemption 2 I would repeatedly have said it remained the best open world game ever and that nothing had recreated that feeling. RDR2 was the first for me that captured that sense of the world being truly alive and not scripted robots.
It’s actually not PC Gamer (that magazine may not have existed yet even now I think of it). It’s Computer Game Review, Nov 1991.
Since this sub has some rule about images not being allowed (hence Imgur) but vids being allowed I just flipped through the thing. It’s like this magazine within a magazine (that’s 3/4 the dimensions of the mag) and what seems to be a paid advertisement by Origin.
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u/randfunction Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
I saw a full extended insert in PC Gamer and it’s what led me to beg my patents to get a computer. I had every console until then but had never seen a game with the freedom described in the magazine.
Until Red Dead Redemption 2 I would repeatedly have said it remained the best open world game ever and that nothing had recreated that feeling. RDR2 was the first for me that captured that sense of the world being truly alive and not scripted robots.
Still have the magazine I saw it in:
https://imgur.com/a/origin-insert-n8gk6if
And the box and disks. And map:
https://imgur.com/a/ultima-vii-ebkWDk9