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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.
I'll start.
Metroid Prime? F-Zero GX? Starfox Adventures?
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Yes, Nintendo's a bit of a niche market, but because of that they can generate cool stuff like this. Plus, they market it right. Other companies would probably try to sell each of these as its own disc, and fail. Nintendo will take a number of experiments and bundle them together, or add an experiment to something else (Pac-Man Vs.).
It's an environment where the developers are allowed to fool around and they may not come up with a viable product, but generate innovation in the process.
I have a gamecube, my best friend has a ps2, and another friend of mine has an xbox. Personally, for me, I'm glad I bought the gamecube. It's the console to own if you're going to own only one console, in my opinion.
There's not a game company out there that comes close to the quality of nintendo with it's first party games, or even its exclusive third party games. You want a list of must owns in my opinion, for the gamecube?
Metroid Prime: *the* best console game this generation, period. So far above and beyond anything else that's out, it's not even funny.
F-Zero: best futuristic racer, bar none. Nothing else comes anywhere close to it.
Ikaruga: one of the best shooters ever made.
Zelda Wind Waker: not as good as Ocarina in my opinion, but still one of the absolute best 3rd person adventure games out.
Pikmin: a fantastic re-imagining of the RTS genre, in a way that is absolutely perfect for console play. Turning what would be a cursor in a "normal" RTS into a game character was simply brilliant.
Mario Golf: one of the best casual, 4 player party games out for any console.
Eternal Darkness: brilliant blend of the survival horror and rpg genres. In close competition with metroid prime for best console game this generation.
Resident Evil remake: this is the way resident evil always should have been. It's RE freed from the constraints of the less powerful consoles it was originally out for.
Skies of Arcadia Legends: an improved version of one of the best console RPGs of all time.
Mario Kart: DD - The best co-op play you're going to find this generation of consoles. Two people per cart = insane fun.
Mario Sunsine: screw the naysayers. This is a brilliant platforming game. It's huge. It's hard. The camera control has a learning curve and a couple of rough spots in the game, but that's more than made up for the fact that Mario controls better than any character in any other platform game. Putting him through his moves is beyond satisfying.
Animal Crossing: yes, I'm a 32 year old man, and I love Animal Crossing. I think it's pure genius. Bite me.
In a market saturated with clones, even Nintendo's titles that aren't much more than updates of N64 titles shine out with a rare originality.
To top it off, as far as 3rd party games that are available on all 3 consoles, in any review you read, the gamecube version is usually in a close 2nd to the Xbox as far as which version's port faired better. The gamecube's hardware is better than the PS2. PS2 fanboys, get over it. The XBox is better hardware than the gamecube, but in my opinion, most of the Xbox's exclusive titles suck.
There troll. Happy now?