Zelda - Four Swords Gets Tetra's Trackers Bonus

Thanks to 1UP for the news that the forthcoming Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords for GameCube will include Tetra's Trackers as a bonus game. Four Swords makes use of GameBoy Advance connectivity as players compete to collect jewels - entering caves or buildings switches the action to your GBA, "...allowing you to scavenge for jewels that your opponents can't see", whereas Tetra's Trackers, also shown at E3, is another multiplayer connectivity-based title, this time with most of the action on your GBA. The disc also includes a "story-driven single-player campaign" using elements styled from Zelda: A Link To The Past, and the package is due next February in Japan. Elsewhere, 1UP has a Zelda merchandising retrospective that includes various pictures of "obscure items related to the series", including beach blankets and plastic plates.

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Re:Pisses me off

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Do you have any idea how the GC Four Swords works? Everybody plays on the TV, but if one player ducks into a cave or house or something, that player switches to the GBA while the other 3 remain uninterrupted on the TV. Game Boys and a TV are required elements, so the game has more screen real estate to play with.

And as already noted, the eReader can add in totally new SMB levels. Totally new. Not unlocked or hidden, totally new levels that haven't even been created yet. (Of course, this assumes Nintendo will actually take advantage of this ability...)

I know it hurts you to spend money, but can you see how there are actual gameplay enhancements here?

Where's this spendthrift attitude over Xbox Live, where you pay a monthly fee for the service and then additional fees for Premium Content?