From visiting the pool shark to buy new cues and custom items to working your way through tropical locations, this simple game brought me hours of joy with my mates.
The game mechanics are simple; hit the white ball at spots or stripes, and be the first to pot all of your balls! With 27 leagues and a whole host of your favourite players, this last Fifa title for the GameCube is still a great game to play today. What title are we on now, Fifa 27 or something? This was the seventh-fastest selling game of all time in the U. The gameplay is pretty much the same as other Fifa titles, with the top-down view that I first encountered on International Superstar Soccer 98 for the N Almost every gamer will have some idea of what Final Fantasy is.
These titles have epic storylines, brilliantly designed characters, and RPG-style battles against hordes and hordes of enemies. Crystal Chronicles is no different. Players choose an avatar from one of four races and embark on an adventure covering everything from meteorites to Myrrh. Expect level-ups and character customisation aplenty! Crystal Chronicles was heralded as being a great RPG multiplayer. Playing alone was fine, but we know from games such as Phantasy Star Online that gaming with friends is much better.
The best bit about this game is that the multiplayer took place in the same room, so you could congratulate mates for epic moves or hit them really hard on the arm if they messed up. Critics went ape for this title when it first came out, with Crystal Chronicles amassing well over 1 million sales. I came to Mario Party 7 a little later in life, and I had to pay a pretty sum to get hold of a copy too! Still, the microphone attachment and associated games did provide players with another interesting gimmick and worked with both Mario Party 6 and 7.
For the first time, 8 players could play modes in Mario Party 7 together using four controllers. I never usually had that many people around the GameCube at once, though it came in handy at Christmas when family members came round.
Mario Party 7 features all of the same manic mini-game action as the other titles in the series, with 88 new mini-games on offer to tempt fans back for another slice of the party pie…. It differs from other games in the canon as players have to compete to resolve a set objective. Ditching the competitive pro wetsuit look for incredibly short shorts and every day gear, the characters in Blue Storm add a cooler edge to the sport, with plenty of gnarly tricks to pull off along the way.
Each player has a turbo meter that fills up when passing coloured buoys in the right order. Races consist of three laps, though their difficulty will depend on the weather in most cases. Rain and waves can push players off-course all to easily, and straying outside of the course boundary line for too long can result in disqualification.
If you enjoy multiplayer games and are looking for an alternative to karting or party titles, then Blue Storm is a safe bet that the whole family will enjoy! Any game where fighters can turn into beasts is a winner in my book! Players button-mash their way to victory in this fast-paced beat-em-up, twisting the control stick left and right while pulling off special moves and throwing opponents into next week!
Beast Mode gives fighters stronger attacks, including two Beast Drives accessed through the Beast Button.
Like the finishers in Mortal Kombat, these are accompanied by a short cinematic clip jam-packed full of awesomeness. What a game! Mario Superstar Baseball was, and still is, a corker of a game. Players compete in different cups through a challenge mode, with Bowser being the final opponent to face. Exhibition mode provides a friendly match between custom teams, and mini-games provide that classic Mario multiplayer fun as well as offering taxing challenges to spice things up a little!
It has all of the same first-person shooting elements that made Goldeneye such a game great, and there was a level with a truck that I quite liked. People never saw it coming! A new feature to the game was an owner or manager mode. Fans of Football Manager games will love this, with players choosing everything from the price of a hotdog to games fixtures.
The main event itself was great to play, with lots of realistic moves and actions, including all of the best players in the business. Everyone knows Michael Vick, and his character was so powerful in this game that they had to tone him down in future versions.
Nothing gets gamers pumped up for a football brawl like the bet Hip-hop and Rock classics. Am i right? I loved everything about this title, from Mr Burns showing up to ram you off the road to the different levels and classic scenes from the TV show.
Did you have a favourite car or racer? Mine had to be Professor Frink in his flying car. And every character had their own catchphrases too! And that question mark at the bottom of the character selection screen? Avalanche is more about racing, and up to four people can play through one GameCube. One new feature is the Avalanche mode, where you guessed it players have to outrun an avalanche on dangerous courses.
There are 20 courses all in all, and weird and wonderful snowboards such as a NES controller can be unlocked too! Some of you may well have come across this title over on our list of the best original Xbox games , but it was a bit of a classic on the GameCube too! Characters can work together to pull off double-team moves and Jade is a dab-hand with her combat staff.
Every console has one of those games that starts off as a bit of a clever gimmick and goes on to become a title that never leaves the disc tray. I had four sets of bongos for this game and would spend hours playing with my mates. For any younger readers, this was when people played in the same room and not online… and it was much better! Players hit bongos along with a track, hitting left, right, or both pads together.
Clapping in front of the microphone is also required on some songs. You may well find another Super Monkey Ball game further down this list, but Super Monkey Ball 2 takes the 37th spot in our list of the best GameCube games of all time! Super Monkey Ball 2 also brought a proper story mode to the party too. Thankfully, you can replay them as many times as you like; Monkey Ball is hard! And when I say remake, I mean a proper remake.
Pretty much all of the original voice actors from the original game came back to re-record too! The gameplay in Twin Snakes feels more like the second game in the series, however, with better ways to take down enemies.
The Twin Snakes also has brainier AI bots that team up to take you down. In my opinion, this title is the perfect remake of the individual, keeping all the classic elements but supercharging them to 11! Nintendo used to be known for their family-friendly games, but Eternal Darkness was one of the first M-rated games that the company produced for the GameCube. Fans of Hellblade and Dark Souls will be all over this psychological thriller, and Resident Evil lovers will also feel right at home in the dark and spooky levels throughout this game.
Eternal Darkness felt like it would have belonged better on the PS2. Still, I liked it at any rate! Solve puzzles, fight evil monsters, and stop an evil force from taking over humanity, all while wetting your pants over and over again.
Well, skating through those amazing levels and pulling off tricks that I could never manage to do in a thousand years felt great! I mean, what could be better than kickflipping as Darth Maul while holding his lightsaber, or grinding down a stair-set as Kelly Slater riding a surfboard? All of my favourite skaters from Rodney Mullen to Bam Margera were available to play from the off.
It certainly had an impressive cast, with plenty of choice when it came to the multiplayer modes. I would spend hours on this game, trying to pull off the best moves in Tag and finding all the heard-to-reach collectibles. As the sequel to Pokemon Colosseum, this RPG follows a similar system of capturing shadow Pokemon and healing their spirits. Often considered one of GameCube's most underrated games , Super Monkey Ball gets the ball rolling on our list with its fun precision-based platforming and party gameplay.
The game brought an arcade-style charm to home consoles with its pure, fast-paced platforming, along with a handful of addictive multiplayer minigames. The experience proves both simple and deceptively tough as it progresses. You're tasked with guiding a ball-piloting ape through a series of stages rife with traps, drops, narrow paths, and pitfalls. The campaign itself offers hours of white-knuckle thrills, but the party games are what truly make this a timeless classic. Players can face off in various multiplayer showdowns, ranging from billiards and golf to racing and the fan-favorite "Monkey Target.
Soon after the GameCube 's launch, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto reaffirmed his game-design wizardry with this inventive console take on the RTS genre. Pikmin has gamers embark on an other-worldly journey as they lead gaggles of anthropomorphic plants, banding together to reassemble the captain's crashed ship.
This charming sequel draws from the user-friendly traits of the first game while building on its foundations and refining certain areas, including axing the day time limit. Pikmin 2 injects life with more detailed, lush locales, as well as two distinct new Pikmin colors and a multiplayer mode. This distinct strategy romp would certainly help round out the library of a theoretical GameCube Classic, bringing an experience rarely explored in console gaming.
Given that this dark, gritty survival-horror was somewhat ahead of its time , Eternal Darkness would prove a great fit for a GameCube Classic. It may seem a bit crude graphically, which makes sense given that it began as an N64 game.
Still, its rich atmosphere and innovative gameplay truly go above and beyond. Silicon Knights takes you on a chilling, psychological journey through history as you explore the eerie mansion of a deceased relative and unearth clues about his murder. Its range of ancient, Medieval, and modern-day locales set the stage for a memorable adventure through time.
Strangely enough, the anime has a dub, so you're not really missing out on playing it. Hikaru No Go 3 shares a similar fate with the gentleman thief. While all chapters are available in English and the anime has a dub, the video games didn't get as much attention. The popularity of this series in Japan is no joke: the manga sold 25 million copies. Basing it off the Japanese game of Go, they brought this series to the video game market.
For fans of the series, you get to play as all your favorite characters and experience it in 3D. Well, that is if you were born in Japan. Luckily, Go is universal and anyone can learn.
At number 8, this robot battle game has titles spanning back to the Commodore The Vs. Titles were released exclusively for the GameCube. Zoids Vs. III specifically offered the improvement of four-player split-screen battles. It's sort of like Godzilla: King of Monsters: fun for the whole family. Unfortunately, only some of these games are available in English.
Unless you're willing to emulate, they're tough to get your hands on. The most recent title, Zoids Wild: King of Beasts, has no implication of coming to the states. If not understanding Japanese doesn't bother you, the Nintendo Switch is region free.
Have you ever wanted to play as a giant yellow creature playing the role of god? These battles were as much a test of wit as of reflex, as nearly every foe had some sort of pattern or puzzle to figure out. It may not be remembered quite as fondly as the original -- very few games are, after all -- but Metroid Prime 2 was another riveting adventure that further proved how well the Metroid series worked in first-person. Sure it was multiplatform, but given the addition of Link as a playable character on the roster, Soulcalibur II always felt very Nintendo to me.
Also: It ruled. It was almost certainly the peak of the 3D fighting genre back then and it rarely got better than this. In the next generation we went back to Street Fighter IV and fighting games changed on us -- possibly for the better? But for this generation of consoles, Soulcalibur II was king. The first game from Clover Studio, the short lived team responsible for a slew of critically acclaimed video games like Okami, Viewtiful Joe, in many, was the prototype for the Clover style.
A slick, fluid 2D beat 'em up, elevated by a unique art style, Viewtiful Joe was a polished homage to video games from a bygone era. There are few games that make players frantically look around and wonder "what the hell is going on" like Eternal Darkness.
At its core, the game isn't much different from Resident Evil, but the big difference were sanity effects. These little events were designed to directly mess with the player's head. From the controller being unresponsive to a screen saying your saved game was deleted, players never knew what was going to happen, which was part of the fun.
Eternal Darkness was also heavily-inspired by H. It required those who finished the game and received all the endings to look at the author's stories to piece together the deeper themes of the game. For me, Eternal Darkness presented me something fresh even though how the game actually played was par for the course.
Seeing the first screenshots of the Resident Evil remake convinced me to buy a GameCube at launch. Nearly two decades later, this game still looks astoundingly good and remains utterly terrifying. Capcom didn't settle for a mere visual upgrade; this remake added so many new mechanics, areas and puzzles that it felt like a completely different game to the original.
It remains the ultimate expression of the classic Resident Evil formula and it was exclusive to Nintendo systems for years an excellent HD remaster is available on every platform. I'll never forgive Pikmin 2 for abandoning the time limit that made the original Pikmin so tense and rewarding, but Pikmin 2 is still worth your time. The multiplayer component was the real standout for me.
Before online gaming was truly a thing on consoles, I spent many hours with my girlfriend, playing frantic multiplayer Pikmin matches. We got frighteningly good. Well, she got frighteningly good. I got my ass whooped. Good times. Is that a good thing?
The jury's out, particularly on the gimmick that allowed two players to ride on the same kart. Still, Mario Kart is Mario Kart. There hasn't been a bad one yet. Double Dash is no exception. The track design is slick, the visuals were bold and the controls were as tight as ever.
Ground up remakes of classic games are normal now, but Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes was unique upon its release in Incredibly it all holds together. Considering how weird things get in Metal Gear Solid, that's saying something.
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