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Review: Doshin The Giant
Let love be your energy in this forgotten Gamecube gem
Initially a game on the ill-fated 64DD add-on, Doshin the Giant puts you in control of the titular yellow fellow, and charges you with the care of an island of tribesmen and women. How you care for them is left entirely up to you.As a friendly sort of god, Doshin is capable of gently raising and lowering land to enable his subjects to live more..
Review: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo's epic franchises. Can the Wind Waker do the legend justice?
Ten years ago, "The Ocarina of Time" raised the bar of gaming standards to a new, unprecedented height - Its unique battle system, innovative "Z-Targeting" system, and utterly captivating storyline stunned gamers worldwide. Millions waited for another Zelda game to be released that would match, or..
Review: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend
Miss Enormo-jugs finally tries her luck on a Nintendo system and finds herself upstaged.
Lara Croft is responsible for making games cooler. There is no doubt about that. Sporting a pair of mammaries bigger than a couple of megalodons in a two way death-pact, she was a character informed by a burgeoning mid nineties lad culture. Don't let any woman with aspirations of girl power tell you she's a..
Review: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Convoluted plots and homoeroticism ahoy! Metal Gear Solid comes to the Gamecube.
Metal Gear Solid is an undoubted classic. It's release in 1999 on the Playstation heralded that the times were a-changing for the geek's hobby of choice. Here was a game that had characters and set pieces to shame even the most insane action movie. Getting to sneak around in an unprecededentedly atmospheric and..
Review: The Sims 2: Pets
Can there really be a more time consuming game than this?
The Sims is a franchise renowned for its cross-gender popularity and appeal to a large portion of gamers- many care for their Sims more than themselves! When it comes to console versions, the series have always struggled to entertain the masses to the extent that the PC titles have. The past two GameCube installments were merely a shadow of..
Review: FIFA 07
Competition is good, but it hasn’t been kind to Electronic Art’s squillion-selling football title.
FIFA soccer’s fall from grace as the number one football title in the 16-bit generation has been well documented. Sure, it has always sold well, usually remaining in the top 5 games well after its release on a yearly basis, but it’s no secret that for the football purist, despite FIFA’s..
Review: Sonic Mega Collection
When Sega and Nintendo had their rivalries in the 90’s some people never got a chance to witness some of the best that gaming had to offer due to owning only one of the two machines.
Fast forward fifteen years and how things have changed! What better way to begin new friendships than bringing out one of the best compilations to date.. Sonic Mega CollectionSonic Mega Collection to sum up has..
Review: LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
New Gamcube titles doesn't grow on trees these days, in fact Nintendo's current generation console is almost completely abandoned, by both third party companies, and Nintendo them self. Therefore we're always glad when a new quality game launches for the Gamecube.
The original game, Lego Star Wars, was a smashing success when it was released back in 2005, and with it's charming and atmospheric Lego..
Review: Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is the best game on the Gamecube.
There, it has been said – that’s my stance on the latest in Capcom’s self proclaimed ‘Survival Horror’ genre. Action games, hell, most games in general will feel sluggish, dull and ultimately underwhelming after the onslaught of this games opening salvo (the first 20 minutes will become the stuff of gaming legend) and with this, the..
Review: Resident Evil
‘What’s for tea mother?’ ‘Brains, son.’ ‘Goody.’
Cast your minds back to the heady days of 1996. It was a time of innocence and hope. John Major was still Prime Minister, Britpop was in its heyday, and Chris Evans was actually entertaining. It was also a time which saw computer games take a drastic leap forward with the release of ‘Resident Evil’ on the Playstation. No longer..
Review: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Everyone's favourite ponce returns. Albeit with huge swords and an even huger sulk. Can you handle the macho?
Let's not mince words. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was completely and utterly sodding lovely. It was like living in a house where the floors are made of velvet and the bogroll is fashioned from finest silk. It was arguably the first 3D Platform adventure since Mario 64 to feel truly..
Review: P.N.03
After a Computerized Armament Management System (C.A.M.S) malfunctions on a planet and all of the defence robots start to destroy and attack the colony, what is the contingency plan? To send you of course!
You control the character of Vanessa Z. Schneider, a strong sassy sarcastic female mercenary who kicks arse. Girl Power! Well, she is not really a feminist’s icon as Capcom have made Vanessa a..
Review: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony hawk is back!
Only eleven months after the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, the Hawk is back in this sequel to the award winning skateboard game.Over the years the Tony Hawk series have managed to get a huge fan base, and there is no doubt that this was a highly anticipated title. If you're interested in the skateboard genre, the sport or just want a good game, you should definitely..
Review: Mario Party 4
Mario. Game board. Dice. Party games. All you need now is a keg.
The Mario Party franchise has been running for years and no doubt will continue to be present on all future Nintendo consoles; it even appeared on the sparsely known GC e-reader. The N64 had the original and two sequels in its lifetime, now it is continuing to evolve on the Gamecube. The first being Mario Party 4, but also at the time..
Review: Aggressive Inline
Aggressive Inline adds new depth to the extreme sports genre, extreme-ly well.
Aggressive Inline is an extreme sports game and bears resemblance to the popular and long running Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. So the opinion that this is just a clone using blades instead of a board and is cashing in on the thriving extreme sports genre is a common, but very wrong view. This thought is especially..
Review: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Dark days are rising and mercenary Ike and his soldiers are the only ones who can stop the chaos...
Not long ago Fire Emblem was one of those cool looking Japanese games that we never got the chance to play over here. Thankfully in the past few years gamers in the west have been graced with that latest 3 (the 7th 8th and 9th instalments), 2 for the GBA and one on the GC. The one featured in this..
Review: Mario Smash Football
Mario steps out onto the football field and is ready for some hi-octane arcade fun, this beat-em-up sports title is certainly action packed.
With a recent wash of Mario sports titles, its hard to justify them all. Mario Smash Football or Super Mario Strikers to the Americans is an action sports title, developed by Canadian outfit, Next Level Games. Don't expect to find the tactical side of the..
Review: SSX 3
Board one massive mountain with 3 peaks, pull off insane tricks and race your rivals.
SSX3 is the 3rd instalment in EA’s series of break neck snowboard super cross games, it’s the best one to date. This is one of the few snowboarding games that are on GCN.The 2 main events in this game are tricks and races, both are highly addictive. In the previous games you had a menu to select your races,..
Review: The Simpsons Road Rage
The Simpson’s go Crazy taxi but it is a shameless cash-in or good game?
Most people like the idea of Crazy Taxi, drive around really fast dropping people off at their destination before the timer hits 0. It's simple pure arcade addiction. The question is did Radical Entertainment manage to make the Simpson’s Road Rage a similar success.Take a smash hit TV show and a decent game, combine them..
Review: Star Fox Adventures
Play as Fox McCloud as you liberate the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet and uncover the sinister truth.
Fox McCloud, unrivalled Arwing pilot takes his first steps on land when he visits Dinosaur Planet. Our hero receives a distress call and like all good Foxes he decides to investigate this. He arrives to find that there is an evil Ruler on the planet, General Scales. The other dinosaurs are all..
