The mag’s newest issue not only sports some impressive artwork by friend of Kotaku and guest artist Sam Spratt, it kicks off a potentially heated debate about which characters had the greatest impact on video games in the 2000s. GI’s newest issue will be shipping to subscribers this week with three different covers, a gaming get together that looks back on 10 years of virtual luminaries.
Check out Game Informer’s full cover at their site, see if you can name them all, and then let loose with “Where the hell is [X] ?!”
December Cover Revealed [GameInformer]
Steven Bogos
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 9:42 AMOnly person i’d really say was missing was Vault Boy (or at least, someone from Fallout).
They seriously think BULLY had more influence than Fallout 3? Not a chance.
Brendan Ingle
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 11:29 AMI’m sorry but where is the G-man?
Boo Goose
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 11:47 AMI think we might have found something to finally replace the Mona Lisa.
Lets go to France and get it done people!!
Alastair
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 12:36 PMWho are these people? Aside from Master Chief, what big impact could these characters have had in their 1 or so games? The decade before and the decade before that’s characters featured in many times more games (in THIS decade) than these supposedly “defining” characters combined…
Al Christie
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 12:50 PMmeh. story or not, there should have been professor kawashima and miis. these 2 opened up ‘casual’ gaming and gave Wii/DS prominence.
Funft
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 1:22 PMSomeone really doesn’t like Japan. The only Japanese character I see is Auron. I don’t know who the green haired lady is though, she looks Japanese.
Dunnowhathuh
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 2:01 PMHmm, I actually don’t recognise some of the people there.
Dire Wolf
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 2:48 PMI can’t name half the characters in those pics. I’m glade to see a few of my favourites in there though: Master Chief, Shepard, Nathan Drake, GLaDOS and Kratos. Also I know there’s a Bioshock reference in there with the “Would you kindly” poster but a Big Daddy and Little Sister would of been nice.
Tali
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 6:00 PMWell they picked Layton and Pheonix, my 2 fav DS stars, so I’m pretty happy!
vibesublime
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 6:02 PMI’m glad that Tim from Braid was there. looks like a pretty good list.
vibesublime
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 6:05 PMexcept for the guy from Bully that it. GTFO
Muzlbut
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 1:15 PMI think you’re referring to the guy in the bottom right, and that’s the main guy from psychonauts
Max Skelton
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 8:59 PMdamn right raz is there
SatanicBug
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 10:31 PMI think you mean “Are these the video game characters that defined a decade”.
jim smith
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 1:56 AMhmmm…
Big Boss and Solid Snake get my vote.
Denz
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 5:58 AMI spy Professor Layton and Phoenix wright. :D
bazuden
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 8:02 AMNo angry birds?
Aaron
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 11:50 AMMaybe Bully gets a message for managing to be released despite a huge storm of controversy over the game. Parents groups were coming out of the woodwork to ban the ‘GTA in a playground’ game.
Steven Bogos
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:34 PMI spy the king of all cosmos!