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August 30, 2002
- The game Metroid Prime for the Nintendo
GameCube will have the ability to be linked with the Metroid Fusion
game for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance.
August 29, 2002
- Animal Crossing will be the first game to
take advantage of the E-Reader for the Gameboy Advance.
The E-reader/GBA connects to the Nintendo Gamecube to send data in.
A game such as Animal Crossing which is similar to the Sims for the PC is
sure to take advantage of the E-reader's abilities. Just imagine
giving an item to your character with the swipe of a dot-coded card.
- Nintendo has announced a Nintendo GameCube unit
that comes with the Super Mario Sunshine videogame. Yeah,
that's right! Mario now comes with the Nintendo Gamecube. You
also get a memory card 59 and a controller. The price is going to be
$189.99 The Gamecube bundle is set to hit the stores on
October 14, 2002. In my opinion, Nintendo has finally finished
launching the Nintendo Gamecube because without Mario it just felt weird.
Without doubt, people who hesitated to buy the Nintendo GameCube will buy
it now.
August
26, 2002
- Super Mario Sunshine from Nintendo and Super
Monkey Ball 2 from Sega were released today. Both of
this games have been highly anticipated by Nintendo Gamecube
owners. Super Mario Sunshine is one of the greatest 3D platform
games ever created and Super Monkey Ball 2 is one of the greatest
party games made so far. Both of this games should provide you
with hours of entertainment but personally I recommend Super Mario
Sunshine but it is only for one player and Super Monkey Ball 2 lets up
to four people play at once.
August 23, 2002
- Nintendo has finally made it to the
Guinness World Records book. Nintendo decided to break the
World Record for the largest serving of Pasta ever cooked by serving a
plate with 3265 pounds of pasta on it. The record
was broken on August 22, 2002 in San Francisco, CA. Hundreds of people
attended the event. This event was dedicated to one of Nintendo's
most precious characters: the Italian plumber Mario. Mario was
the star of the videogames that made Nintendo one of the greatest
videogame publishers in the world. Mario is starring in a new
videogame "Super Mario
Sunshine" that debuts on August 26, 2002..
August 22, 2002
- Turok: Evolution is
the highly anticipated prequel to the best-selling Turok series from
Acclaim. The game is a first person shooter and it has many
qualities that set it apart from the rest You take the role of
Tal'Set as you are transported from 1886 Texas to the Lost lands by a
dimensional Rift. Wounded from a battle you were fighting back
in Texas you pass out but are healed by the natives. Now you must
help them fight against the Lord Tyranus and his reptilian hordes.
But that is not all, your worst enemy Tobias Bruckner also made it trough
the portal an is now helping Lord Tyranus. The game features a brand
new next-generation engine, stealth and ally/enemy squad based tactics to
make you plan before you attack, over thirty creatures (prehistoric
insect, animals and oceanic organisms), a collection of more than thirty
weapons to choose from and the ability to destroy the environment and the
objects on them. This game also features the ability to ride a
flying creature for air-to-ground combat and a multi-player battle mode.
This game has lots of features that set it if apart from the rest.
The Prehistoric theme will surely appeal to most people and the realistic
graphics will make many buy this game. This game is rated M
and will be released on September 1, 2002. Finally a game
that competes with PC first person shooters.
August 21, 2002
- Cubivore is a very original survival game coming to the
Nintendo Gamecube courtesy of Atlus U.S.A. This game was created by
Nintendo but it is being published in the US by Atlus. The object of
the game is to eat other creatures and absorb their powers eventually
becoming the strongest creature there is. You can evolve into one of
the 100 creatures depending on which creatures you eat. You will
need instinct, cunning, stealth and strategy to stalk other creatures.
In order to survive you will have to pass on your abilities to your
offspring. The game's best thing is its graphics. All the
creatures in the game are somewhat cubed. They look like abstract
art you can find on a museum. Well I don't know what to say about
this game except that it is new like a combination of RPG and 3D action.
- NFL 2K3 is one of the best football games to come out so
far. The people at Sega really went all out with this one. It
truly recreates the game of football on the field and off the field. It
has new life-like animations, improved play-calling intelligence and a new
ESPN broadcast system which highlights the game's plays. It also
offers a franchise mode which offers you full control of the team and
negotiation of players's contracts. There are over 4500 team
specific plays and the computer controlled teams will behave like their
real life counterparts when it comes to calling plays. The team rosters
are updated for the 2002 football season. The game also has all of
the NFL stadiums. Also in this game is the award winning
play-by-play commentary which makes sports games more realistic and fun.
Up to four people can play this game at once. Too bad Online play
will only be supported for the PS2 and X-box. This seems to be a
great football game because it is on the top ten sellers for every
platform on Electronics Boutique. This game is available now.
August
16, 2002
- Electronic Arts is offering Free Online games
on their website. Electronic Arts is best known for their best
selling sports games and they are now offering free shockwave and
flash games on their website. It is worth taking a look. Click
here to go to the website.
- The E-Reader is a new accessory coming
to the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. This product allows the Gameboy
to scan cards that have special codes in them. Kind of like when
you buy groceries and they scan the items in the cash register.
After the E-Reader makes a scan it turns the info into either a
picture, text or even a game. This accessory looks like it could
offer new ways of playing Gamecube because the Gamecube links up to
the Gameboy Advance. The E-reader is scheduled for release
on September 16.
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger from Electronic
arts is a 3D platform/adventure game similar to Super Mario
Sunshine. Ty uses a boomerang as a weapon and can have up to
eight different ones each with its own unique ability. Ty can
also bite enemies and charge up for a Super Chomp. The game is
set on Australia and features sixteen levels, over fifty non-playable
characters, Power-ups, animal rides, swimming and surfing. Ty
could be the game that identifies Electronic Arts much like Sonic
represents Sega. Click
here for the official website It looks pretty
cool!
August
15, 2002
- Soul Calibur 2 from Namco is
probably coming to the Nintendo Gamecube by the end of this year or
maybe the beginning of next year. Soul Calibur is considered one
of the best fighting games for the Sega Dreamcast. It featured
an easy to learn control scheme and lots of easy to pull combos as
well as great graphics. The sequel Soul Calibur 2 does
everything the first one did and much more with the power of the
Gamecube. The game is a one on one 3D fighting game. It
features over fifteen characters to choose from and very richly
detailed environments. The game also has different animations
for the same special move. The attack will be the same one but
will look different depending on whether you pull it off when you are
finishing another attack, when you are just standing or when close to
the opponent. It is a nice feature that really adds a lot of
realism to fighting games. What makes this game different from
other 3D fighters is that each character has his own special weapon
and the coolest thing is watching them dish out a combo using some of
the sweetest moves in a fighting game. Soul Calibur 2 looks like it could
change the way we look at fighting games.
August 8, 2002
- Capcom VS. SNK: EO (Extreme Offensive) looks like a
great fighting game for the GameCube. This game will prove to be
a better version than the ones in the Arcade and Dreamcast. The
graphics are simply amazing and there are new animations being
added. The game is based on the rivalry between two gigantic
corporations that want to settle their scores in a martial arts
tournament. Over forty fighters that come from Capcom's and
SNK's previous fighting games will join the tournament.
The controls are simple all the special moves are controlled by the C
analog button while punches and kicks are performed with the L and R
buttons. This control mode is called GC-ism, AC-ism is the
Arcade control mode. GC-ism takes advantage of the controller's
pressure sensitive buttons; that means the harder you press a button
the stronger the attack will be. There is also a new GROOVE
combo system that will allow different ways of attacking and
defending. There are six GROOVES to choose from. This
looks to be one of the Gamecube's best and only 2D fighting
game. Dark Stalkers, Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, King of
fighters and others put into one fighting game. This game looks
promising.
August
7, 2002
- Beach Spikers is a rather interesting
beach volleyball game. It was produced by the AM2 division of
Sega. The most appealing thing about this game is that the
characters are all female and they are wearing bikinis during the
game. The game will be a 2 vs 2 match on beaches from all over
the world. Some of the countries featured in this game are
Brazil, Japan, USA and many others. This game was originally
released on the Arcades and most people say the game is easy to learn
and pretty addictive. The game is very detailed and keeps track
of the sand as the characters step on it. The game will also
have a Arcade, Training, Multiplayer and a World Tour Mode (Story
mode). You will also be able to create your own character and
assign her face, bikini, hair, sunglasses, skill points, etc,
Skill points are also given in the World Tour Mode after winning a
match to increase your character's attributes. This game looks
to be more than eye candy and it should appeal to everyone, specially
volleyball fans. Cute girls, great gameplay, 4 player gaming and
a story mode. This game will be released on August 13,
2002. For more info go the Official
website.
- Burnout 2: Point of Impact the sequel to one
of the best driving games in the Gamecube has been announced by
Acclaim. I hear that this game has improved a lot over the last
one. There will be over fourteen cars plus hidden vehicles to
choose from. There would also be thirty two new tracks.
Weather conditions like rain, fog and snow have also been added.
There are new playing modes including one where you have race a police
car, another one where you earn points to win. Thankfully you
will also be able to customize your car. Another new addition to
this game is the ability to jump. Yeah this time the car can
actually get some air if you are going fast enough in an inclined
road. A tutorial will help you learn to drive the
"Burnout" way. This game will appeal to anyone who
likes driving or who feels constrained by speed limits on the
road.
August 4, 2002
- Metroid Prime will be a first person
adventure game. It is based on Nintendo's best selling metroid
games. The game features a change from the original side scrolling
action to a first person one. The graphics look amazing and the
interface also looks very good. The main character is a female
bounty hunter named Samus Aran and she wears a special armor which gives
her many special abilities. Metroids are deadly organisms with
great destructive power. The game will allow you to see trougth
Samus Aran eyes, she has visors in her suit's helmet which
allow her to examine the terrain, objects and enemies in many different
ways. Samus's special armor gives her ability to morph into a ball
during this time the game will shift to a 3D third person perspective
and will allow Samus to squeeze trough small holes, bounce and avoid
getting hit. The past Metroid games have been great offering hours
of exploration, puzzle solving and monster destroying action. This
looks to be a promising game.
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