Friday, November 12, 2010

Top 5 Gamecube Games

Ah Gamcube, a fun time with all sorts of games to choose from. This is probably my biggest library of games I have for 1 system, so this isn't going to be easy.


5. Pikmin
    A unique gameplay that I love and has such an addicting trait to it with the power to control an army of 3 different kind of creatures called Pikmin.  Each type having a trait to be unaffected by elements, like Red Pikmin can withstand fire, blue Pikmin can swim, yellow Pikmin can withstand electricity.
    You play as a small guy from space trying to collect treasures from the planet. Taking on things 10 times the size of you and the Pikmin is so fun with having an army at your disposal. Levels are time limited and are very challenging.

4. SSX Tricky
    I know there are plenty of other games that deserve this spot just as much as this game, but hear me out on this. A snowboarding game sounds crazy to put in a top 5, but this game is the best snowboarding game period. This game has all kinds of characters to choose from from a break-dancer stereo type to a psychotic person (who I use and has the coolest tricks).
     So this games has all sorts of modes. The main mode is racing and trick points levels to unlock new maps and characters and boards for your character. The more you play the more experience your character you've selected gets. You level up and could add more stats to your character which equals to being faster, higher jumpers, much longer hang-time, and a lot more tricks at once.
     You have a meter on the right, which gives you boost the more tricks the higher you meter gets filled. When it gets to the top you go into tricky mode which is the ability to do you signature moves for that character. Doing that gives you a letter at the top of the meter and if you do enough signature tricks you get the word tricky. When that happens it means unlimited boost for the rest of the race. The maps are huge and there is always an alternate rout every section of the map. This game is so addicting and is one of those games I must play if I play any Gamecube game again. Not to mention watching the intro of this game always wanted me to play it again.


3. Metroid Prime
    This was one of the best first person adventures. The game starts of with you having all your upgrades investigating a pirate ship until you verse a monster at the end cause you to lose all your upgrades (I bring this up because this happens in every Metroid Prime game. D:<   I mean really who would tease you with having cool weapons and upgrades and then you lose it all and have to reclaim them as you go though the game.)
     The game takes you to an unknown planet with hostile monsters and enemy space pirates. You explore all parts of the world getting back your upgrades and weapons and solving lots of puzzles. With one of the best boss battles of all time, this is no doubt in my top 5.


2. Super Smash Bro. Melee
     This game is a personal favorite because I would actually compete in tournaments for this game. Its a side scrolling fighting game with allot of Nintendo characters to choose from. I competed with Fox in every game. There are 3 campaign modes Adventure, Classic, and All-Star. All are which are fun to play, but the real reason for playing is to play with your friends and to beat them till they get annoyed at you for being so good.
     You play with lives or buy a timer. With lives the last man standing wins and with the timer whoever has the most kills wins. You would most likely play with lives. The more damage you take the easier you will go flying across the map by a heavy attack. This game is very fun and addicting for everyone. Its to bad though that Super Smash Bro. Brawl dumb down the gameplay and lessened the competitiveness big time.


1. Resident Evil 4
     This is one of the best game period (I keep saying this I need to make a top 5 games of all time). This game is awesome and non stop action. You can't even relax in the cut-scenes because you have to react to the cut-scene and press a certain combination of buttons or you die. First time it happened I was like wdjqwdfWHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN! This is also one of the scariest and hardest games I've played. The first part of the game you have to survive a village of zombies with a pistol and a few shotgun shells and the strong one has a chainsaw. This game has the best boss battles of all time. The unlockables for this game are cool you can get alternate costumes too.
      The plot is you are Leon S. Kennedy on a mission to rescue the president's daughter Ashley. Then you discover that the towns people are not normal and are zombies being controlled by a parasite. The one controlling the parasites is the one who took Ashley in the first place. You then find out both Leon and Ashley are infected by the parasite and have only a limited amount of time to get the cure and escape the grasps of the enemy.
     Overall this game is my best Gamecube game and deserves my most recommended title to try if you have to play a Gamecube game ever again and Deserves the number 1 spot.

3 comments:

  1. There's Mario again...
    Which system do you prefer to play which types of games on. The Graphics are awesome here, but how do they play? Take Mario for instance.. Which console wins?
    Resident evil too...
    Nice work James; graphics are great!

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  2. Well graphics for Resident Evil 4, on the Gamecube version are better than the PS2 version (I've played both versions.) When it comes to playing the game, however I prefer the PS2 controls over the Gamecube.

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  3. Will resident evil be on your top 5 for PS2?

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