GamesRadar+ is supported by its audience. the hidden weird things in City Trial! A year later, when Nintendo debuted a new Zelda game with dramatically different, cartoony graphics, some fans protested loudly on the internet. Press J to jump to the feed. Kirby Air Ride is probably my favorite game of all time. It's the most simple yet infallible and fun game. Nintendo whetted many appetites for next-gen Zelda with a Space World 2000 demo that showed a detailed and proportionately realistic Link fencing with Gannondorf. Henry St Leger, If you are into SRPGs and like a challenge, this is perfect. For example, I passed up getting a copy of Gotcha Force years ago well under market value because it has abysmal reviews. Prime is to Metroid what Ocarina of Time or Super Mario 64 were to their respective series. After skipping the Nintendo 64, fans worried about the fate of the franchise—and then worried again once they learned the follow-up to Super Metroid was turning into a first-person shooter. But while doing so, you begin to see the family (and toy characters) suffering around you, their lives slowly unraveling in crisis. Smash Bros on N64 was almost a prototype for what a Nintendo fighting game could be – and Melee realized the potential into a fast-paced, fan service-packed masterpiece. It's not a shooter first and foremost, really, instead focusing on exploration, puzzle solving and multi-layered environmental design. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Legends is the same game Dreamcast owners loved, just with some minor new elements and a fresh coat of paint. Looking forward to playing it for the first time. When $250 is a deal...there's absolutely no way it can ever close to live up to that price tag. There's so many things Ninty could have done with the Battle Mode on MK8 and 7, and they just haven't. And piecing together Hydra/Dragoon. But it also opened the door for collaborations with Sega, including this new version of the fast-paced racing series. A lot of the tracks here would become series mainstays, too, including Yoshi Circuit and the divisive Baby Park, which is just a goddamn oval. And it gave western gamers exactly what Japanese fans had loved for years, even if many US GameCube owners weren't as excited. I wish more games fucked with the player the way this game did. The reason Super Monkey Ball rocks is down to the maze design being excellent and the control and physics being more or less perfect. Set in the desert region of Orre, it put you in the shoes of an operative from the nefariously-named Team Snagem (snag ‘em! TTYD is in my Top 10 of all time. I think this ease of use tech is just going to introduce more people to the hobby and continue to inflate the price since historically, that's what's been happening. Mario Kart Double Dash: The most wacky and fun Mario Kart created! It's also great to just calm down. That's very valid. As well as offering re-releases of Resident Evil 2, 3 and Code Veronica, it was the home of three exclusive Resident Evil games – Resident Evil 4 (though it eventually ended up on PS2), Resident Evil 0 and this remake of the first entry in the series. In many ways, this was the game that set the rules of how to remake a classic effectively – Capcom followed the beats of PlayStation original while subverting player expectations. Its opening level, the attack on the Death Star, mimics the feel of that set piece so well. The TimeSplitters series mashed together madcap British humor (the good kind) with an obscene amount of pop culture references – and TimeSplitters 2 is the best entry of the three. There are tons of great GameCube games, but if you want the best of the best, or you're exploring Nintendo's console for the first time, here's where to start. I spent so much time in this game. But if you're looking for the best of the best, or perhaps you're exploring the GameCube for the first time, you've got to start somewhere. That game will fuck with you in ways you can't even imagine. And it was nice to see a Nintendo game that didn't take it easy on the player, with high difficulty and permanent team member death. New York, Fortunately it didn't need to, as the traditional strategy gameplay was as addictive then as it always has been. While the PS4 Spidey game surpasses it in pretty much every way, the open world web-swinging in this game was just perfect, and we wouldn't mind revisiting it for old times' sake. ), with the technology to literally steal Pokémon from other trainers. The sixth-generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox. Best of all, with an ever-ticking clock and calendar, the game world changes in real time even when you aren't playing. to newer generations of Nintendo fans. And even if you're playing with friends, you don't have to seek to demolish each other, you can just ride around collecting items and minding your own business. And that's where this list comes in. We've also included two other games that you can already play on Switch that can't be missed from any list of the greatest GameCube titles. You'll quickly fall in love with Vyse and his Blue Rogues as they fight the evil Valuan Empire. Chibi Robo is definitely a fun game and I feel like really gets its praise for how novel it is. (Giving strategy to who you pick) Bob-omb Battle: A battle mode where the only items are BOB-OMBS (And you can hold 10 at a time) Yep, fantastic! You play as agent Leon S Kennedy, who's sent to a mountain range in Spain to retrieve the president's daughter from a bunch of fanatics, including a short demon man who dresses like Napoleon. You can even see some of Eternal Darkness's influence on legendary PS4 horror game PT. I can't honestly say any of these games I'd buy now at the current ridiculous prices. Special Items that only appear for certain characters. Please refresh the page and try again. I actually don't see the price dropping. Super Monkey Ball allows up to four players, so grab some friends and let the fun begin! The Twin Snakes is a nice-looking reinterpretation of the PSone original that has some of MGS2's gameplay retrofitted into it, like first-person aiming and the ability to hide enemy bodies. It's easily the best Simpsons game of all time (which isn't that hard), blending a manic mix of satirical Grand Theft Auto 3-style open world gameplay with the side-splitting humor you’d expect to find in your favorite Simpsons episodes. PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services.