Whether running the point with one-button Quick Plays, spinning free in the lane for a vicious dunk or locking down on "D," the revamped EA Sports Freestyle Controller puts you in total control. A host of diverse teams from across the globe unite on the green for intense three-on-three matches of soccer. Not your ordinary soccer game, Sega Soccer Slam involves violent tackles, killer kicks, and spotlight maneuvers.
In Quest mode, you can take any team through a series of matches, while unlocking secret stadium locations and gaining access to hidden power-ups.
Alternative gameplay options include Arcade mode, Challenge mode, and a round-robin Tourney mode with multiplayer action for up to six players. Now you can use the Hulk's strength to run, jump, and climb anywhere across landscapes from the comic series.
You can increase your strength and unlock more moves by completing more than 30 story missions and 40 side missions. The game's destructible environments can help you fight bosses, gain weapons, and destroy buildings. Return to Middle-earth in a game based on the epic final chapter of the The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
Developed using the same digital assets as the films, The Return of the King recreates in stunning detail the final events of the War of the Ring. Become the heroes who determine the fate of Middle-earth as you traverse the haunted Paths of the Dead, defend Minas Tirith, and even play co-op multiplayer with a friend as you march against the impenetrable Black Gates of Mordor.
The fate of Middle-earth is in your hands. Think like Bond, act like Bond, and experience an entirely new Bond adventure. James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, returns in Everything or Nothing with new guns and gadgets, combat skills, and clever tricks--and it's up to you to put them to good use.
The game also features two-player co-op missions and four-player multiplayer arena modes. For the first time ever, characters can get in and out of vehicles, as well as ride creatures.
Other exciting additions include free-roaming vehicle levels, the ability to switch ships at will in Free Play mode, cool new character-specific attacks and maneuvers, playable mini-kit vehicles, an adaptive difficulty option and more. Without question, NBA 2K3 is one of the most accurate representations of professional basketball to date. Elevate your game on both ends of the court with NBA Live Create new dribble moves, flashy dunks, and tenacious defensive plays that express your individual style--all with a touch of the right analog stick.
The new man Freestyle implementation enhances individual player movements and floor spacing, putting you in the middle of the action.
Enhanced player graphics reproduce NBA players with realistic faces, hairstyles, jerseys, and shoes. NBA Live also offers a deeper Dynasty mode, where you can watch your franchise flourish for 25 seasons. Before the events of Resident Evil, the residents of Raccoon City lived their lives unaware of the dark fate that surrounded them.
Now, along with your S. Bravo Team, you're sent in to investigate a series of grisly murders in the area. As Rebecca Chambers, a rookie cop, or Billy Cowen, an escaped convict, you'll fight zombies, solve challenging puzzles, and slowly uncover the truth behind the murders. A new Partner Zapping System lets you quickly switch between each character.
Enter the world of urban street racing with the latest title in the hit Need for Speed series: Need for Speed Underground. Take on today's most popular tuner cars from Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Toyota and many more, earning cash for car mods. Test your skills against the computer or online against up to 4 players. But creating a custom street racing machine will not get you to the top; it takes a certain amount of attitude and razor sharp driving skills to compete in the tough world of urban racing.
This year's action features more advanced levels of player detail and responsiveness. Play as one of the best players from 16 leagues and teams, from Europe's super leagues to the Americas. Plus, a new Career Mode gives you the chance to take a team from the lower divisions, battle through ranks, sign new players, and turn them into champions. With immersive atmospheres, total realism with the world's premier clubs, and improved gameplay, FIFA Soccer looks to reach the goals of soccer fans.
With fierce conflict unfolding in the streets of America, it's your patriotic duty to fight back. Take on the role of Christopher Stone, and evolve from an average New Yorker into a fearless patriot who recruits and leads an army of freedom fighters in the streets of New York City.
Freedom Fighters combines the depth of a squad-based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game, all of which unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of a modern-day urban battleground. The sequel to Hitman forces a retired assassin back into action by treason. Visit the dark recesses of the world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation, and dishonor. Your contracts will take you to exotic locations around the globe including Sicily, St.
Petersburg, Japan, Malaysia, and India. A diverse arsenal of equipment, from armor-piercing rifles and explosives to chloroform and poison darts, are at your disposal. Stalk and eliminate your targets up close and personal, in either first- or third-person perspectives. You must decide whether to use stealth or aggression, but be careful--you'll have to deal with the consequences.
Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks on a new journey on a cursed island. Only with courage and the mastery of new combat arts can the Prince emerge victoriously. As the Prince, you can develop your own fighting style by manipulating the environment and the enemies. You can even use new projectile attacks and Sands of Time powers to rid the lands of deadly monsters. High-speed motorcycle racing and high-stakes futuristic combat collide in Xan intoxicating, highly addictive arcade experience.
Feel every razor sharp turn and roller-coaster drop in the pit of your stomach as you smash through the sound barrier at speeds over mph. If you're looking for a simulation-style baseball game for your GameCube, All-Star Baseball is the best and only option. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody features plenty of crops, a variety of animals to care for, tons of festivals to participate in and loads of events to create a fun and entertaining game play experience.
Play as either a boy or girl: Each gender has 10 potential spouses. Compete against a rival farmer; Your productivity will be judged on a daily basis against that of your rival's Cultivate a wide variety of crops and trees. Raise cows, sheep, horses and chickens. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody offers 4-player minigames.
Purchase different plots of land and expand your farm by building various extensions. The Harvest Goddess has turned to stone and the Harvest Sprites need your help to bring her back. You need to collect Musical Notes throughout the game in hopes of restoring her to her former self.
There are Musical Notes in the game and to collect the notes you must do a variety of different tasks, such as shipping a certain number of items, winning a festival or making friends with the wild animals found around your farm.
Only by collecting a certain number of notes will the Harvest Goddess come back. Blast your way to victory as Glitch, the gun-slinging, half-ton menacing bot of Droid City.
Found as scrap metal, but transformed into destructive machinery, Glitch is determined to free his people from the evil clutches of General Corrosive and his maniacal army of Mil bots.
As you venture through 40 missions, you'll find 17 deadly weapons, a variety of vehicles, and enemy bots that you can control. Annihilate the General's sinister plan to dominate the world and salvage the robot race. In the world of NHL Hitz , hard-checking and highlight-reel action is common. This year's installment in the action-packed NHL Hitz series showcases three-on-three gameplay with players who leap, glide, check, pass, and score on defenders.
New features include a deeper New Season mode, player trades, a playoff tree, and official NHL awards. The game also boasts bigger, stronger, and faster players, plus improved goalie logic, behavior, animations, and control, making it tougher to score.
With the exclusive video game license of the NFL and its players, and currently in its 17th installment, Madden NFL 07 puts you in control the running game like never before. For the first time ever, step up as the lead blocker to create a hole, and then take control of the tailback and smash through, overpower, or slash away from would-be tacklers as you fight for every yard. Innovative rushing controls give you a game-breaking ground attack featuring all-new jukes, cutbacks, and the distinct running styles of your favorite backs.
The sequel to the team-based role-playing game X-Men Legends lets you play as one of many X-Men, and use and combine his or her unique abilities to defeat enemies. Rise of Apocalypse includes new mutant powers, playable characters, and environments. Also new to X-Men Legends II is online play, which lets you work cooperatively against other teams of mutants. The darkness of the Great War has passed, and the lands of Gladius are peaceful once more.
Now combat takes place only in the gladiator arenas, where schools from around the world compete for the title of Imperial Champions. Follow the grand saga of two young heroes, Ursula and Valens, as they recruit and train a team of warriors and compete in the gladiator games.
Battle with deadly weapons and powerful magic as you learn vital combat tactics and enhance your own characters. More than Division I teams have been updated with accurate rosters, ratings, and schedules. Select a team and compete in conference tournaments, or create your own custom tournament from scratch.
As you move up the ranks, you'll discover each school has its own mix of cheerleaders, chants, and fight songs. Now you can invade home courts online against players nationwide on the Xbox and PlayStation 2.
Tiger Woods 06 pits you against Tiger Woods in a battle to be the best golfer of all time. You can play golf greats in their own eras on their terms to prove that you are the best ever.
Tiger Woods 06 includes greater shot control and a "gamebreaker" meter that models the momentum of professional golf competition.
You can play on 15 courses, both licensed and fantastical. Tiger Woods 06 also adds more multiplayer modes and capabilities. User Score: 5. The second chapter in the epic story of Middle-earth pits you against Sauron and the evil forces of Mordor. Guide Aragorn, Gimli, or Legolas through 13 interactive environments, using each character's unique moves, skills, and weaponry to complete your quest. This year's installment in the NBA Live series features a new control system that lets you make quick steals, monster shot blocks, and smooth crossover dribbles.
New animations show everything from power dunks and rebounds to signature moves and coaches' reactions. Add to the mix fresh commentary and dialogue between player and coach, and you have a complete NBA experience. General Scales has unleashed powers that are tearing apart the once-peaceful Dinosaur Planet.
With the survival of his home planet at risk, Fox McCloud receives an urgent message to battle Scales and his vast army of SharpClaws. You must rely on the mystical powers of a unique staff as you battle Scales' minions, befriend peaceful plant-eaters, and encounter eerie spirits that hold the key to the planet's survival.
With the help of some familiar faces, Cortez--the tough hero from previous installments--must chase a mystery foe across different time periods to trace the origins of the TimeSplitters. As Cortez, you'll have access to weapons, gadgets, characters, and environments that are unique to each time period.
You can also correct the mistakes made in the past or team up with past and future versions of yourself in battles. In an all-new storyline, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 takes you to skateparks around the world, where you can spray your custom tag, slap stickers, and even create new skate lines. Now you can play as yourself, as your teammates, or as more than 20 special skaters. If you're feeling nostalgic for older Tony Hawk games, you can try Classic mode, which challenges you to accomplish your favorite goals, such as Secret Tape and High Score.
As Sam Fisher, Third Echelon's most skilled Splinter Cell operative, you are assigned to execute a hazardous series of operations to investigate and eliminate a new source of information attacks originating in North Korea.
At your disposal is a lethal array of tactics ranging from Combat Knife techniques to experimental prototype weapons skills and more-radical hand-to-hand techniques such as the Inverted Chokehold. Experience the intensity of acting as a lone operative fighting tomorrow's threats in the field and of cooperating online with a partner to accomplish crucial missions.
Get ready for a new brand of football meant only for the streets. NFL Street delivers hard-hitting, fast-paced 7-on-7 arcade football. Don't be afraid to add extra style to your bone-crushing tackles, passes and runs as you will be rewarded with superpowered Gamebreakers.
Choose from more than current NFL stars and legends such as Barry Sanders, and play through a variety of fields including a beach, a park or a corner lot. Get ready to rule the streets and look good doing it. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour updates the Mario Golf series with more swing control, new courses, and fun side games.
Carefully select your club, choose the optimal contact point and trajectory, compensate for wind and green speeds, and then swing away. You'll also have to compensate for each character's weaknesses and for each course's terrain--from beautiful rolling hills to fantastic pipes and sand traps.
One to four players can enter a tournament, which rewards skillful play with trophies, badges, prizes, and secrets. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month.
Lowest of the Month. Metascore: 97 User Score: 8. Metascore: 96 User Score: 9. Metascore: 96 User Score: 8. Metascore: 95 User Score: 8. Metascore: 94 User Score: 7. Metascore: 93 User Score: 8. Metascore: 92 User Score: 6. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Platform: GameCube June 23, This horror story spans generations, so you must relive the blood-soaked history while conjuring spells, solving puzzles, and slaying supernatural beasts.
Metascore: 92 User Score: 8. SSX 3 Platform: GameCube October 20, Drop in and conquer the massive, living mountain rife with ego-crushing challenges and gravity-bending thrills. Metascore: 92 User Score: 7. Super Smash Bros. Metascore: 92 User Score: 9.
Metascore: 91 User Score: 8. Resident Evil Platform: GameCube April 30, Raccoon City has been completely overrun by mutant beasts and bloodthirsty zombies. Metascore: 91 User Score: 9. Metascore: 91 User Score: 6. Metascore: 90 User Score: 8. Metascore: 90 User Score: 7. Pikmin 2 Platform: GameCube August 30, Captain Olimar has returned to the planet where the Pikmin live, and he's all business this time.
Metascore: 90 User Score: 9. Metascore: 90 User Score: 6. Pikmin Platform: GameCube December 2, Pikmin may be small and plantlike, but they can be a space traveler's best friend. Metascore: 89 User Score: 8. Madden NFL Platform: GameCube November 17, If you enjoy simulation-style football games that play well, have incredible depth, and look great, Madden is your game.
Metascore: 89 User Score: 6. Unfortunately, none have been forthcoming since and none are currently announced as in-development. One of the biggest improvements comes in the form of the track selection, which has been bolstered significantly. All tracks take place on the same mountain, with some races lasting up to half an hour. First launched in , the series has become the standard by which all skateboarding games are now judged. That said, not all iterations have been as well-received as some of the earlier games.
The fourth outing improves on several points from earlier games, with an expanded character creator and larger roster. Originally launched on the PlayStation 2, the GameCube version came just under a month later with a host of improvements.
Both modes have access to the same varied roster and range of trick shots in this arcade sports simulator. The GameCube was never known for having the greatest selection of sports games when compared to other big-selling consoles. One of the ways that Nintendo tried to remedy this is by slapping its classic collection of recognizable characters on the box. This is what brought us Super Mario Strikers , an easily accessible arcade game that lacks a little depth.
The modes are fairly basic, allowing single or multiplayer matches, but not offering a great deal of selection per match. Stadium choice and character rosters are quite limited, so some greater variety would have been appreciated. Still, in a limited genre, Super Mario Strikers stands out as one of the most accessible arcade sports games. In a world where instant gratification exists in the form of microtransactions, this retro game will require skill and time to perfect.
This is a game that demands speed, track memorization and agility, as well as quick reflexes to best. As such, it may not be the best choice for a casual games night with the family.
As a party game, the concept works wonderfully, and at the time it provided multiplayer fun unmatched by many other games. That said, to this day the game still brings a touch of manic chaos to any gathering of family or friends.
Firstly, there are fresh mini-games added to the multiplayer mode, breathing new life into the party classic. Secondly, SEGA brought an overwhelming array of single-player levels, allowing you to practice your skills so you can crush your competitors. Resident Evil games are typically either huge successes or miss the mark in the eyes of horror genre gamers. According to online reviews and ratings from official websites, Resident Evil 4 was up there with the best games in the series.
To this day, it remains as one of the bars against which new Resident Evil games are compared and judged. In addition to a new over-the-shoulder viewpoint, the game introduced other new game mechanics that were popular with gamers.
These included a new action system, new and unusual enemies, a revamped saving mechanism, and in-game cinematics. The result was a game that attained flawless scores across the board, including 9. This is essentially a horror title masquerading as a puzzle-solving game, which may come as a surprise to the unprepared.
Not for the uncommitted, this game will demand a great deal of time from anybody setting out for full completion. Investigate a brutal murder within an atmospheric mansion and uncover the clues needed to solve the mystery. However, in a unique twist, the investigation and story itself spans the course of time across 20 different centuries. Unfortunately, the game received some flak for not correcting minor issues that existed in the first game. These included problems such as character movements that were slow to respond to controller inputs.
Though not held to the same standard as Resident Evil 4 , Resident Evil Zero is still reasonably popular among horror fans. The first Super Smash Bros. Melee to continue with the series. Building on the first game, this version boosted the fighter roster to a total of 25 franchised Nintendo characters. The game was widely praised for its stunning visuals and audio tracks, providing immersion and an entertaining backdrop for the multiplayer.
The original Soul Calibur was a little-known beat-em-up game that saw limited engagement from the wider gaming community. This was not for any lack of quality gameplay, but rather the fact that the game was exclusive to Dreamcast.
Namco had to bring the sequel to more varied platforms before it came to be widely considered one of the best series in the fighting genre. However, numerous review websites awarded the genre-defining title a perfect , which attests to the quality of the game. Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 was one of the last high-profile titles to hit the GameCube before the system was discontinued. And who knows, you may even get into the manga series once you become familiar with the characters.
However, whether you can play will depend on what version of the Wii you have. The same applies to the latest model, the RVL, which features no memory card or controller ports. However, you still have the option to purchase a RVL model secondhand from a store or private seller. The GameCube does require a memory card to save single-player game save files at the end of a session.
There are numerous types of cards available, and none should be overly expensive to pick up. The number of blocks used by a save file varies, depending upon the game and the size of the file. Some have been known to use as few as , and others upwards of 50 or more. To save progress on the Wii, you will have to pick up a GameCube memory card. If you only have a few games, you can buy a smaller card, but for a larger collection, go bigger. In reality, not all GameCube games are too expensive, though there are definitely some that cost more than modern games.
Firstly, consider that not all GameCube games were huge sellers, meaning that fewer games are available for resale. Each of you attempts the same challenge. Some of the challenges are mental such as adding numbers together quickly or guessing when the line will reach the other side.
For these games there is a very smart electronic unit that times you and presents the challenge. Other games are practical, such as balancing balls or constructing tubes and spinning around with them super slowly so nothing falls out.
I had to give my 8 year old daughter quite a few extra lives or she would have been out stright away but we had a blast and will most definitely play this game again. I love games that are a bit different and really push you and this is definitely one of those.
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