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Game Informer’s Top 10 GameCube games

Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 1:55pm by Blake

The January ‘09 issue of GI tries their hand at listing the Top 25 GameCube games of all time. Here are the top 10:

  1. Resident Evil 4
  2. Zelda Wind Waker
  3. Smash Bros. Melee
  4. Eternal Darkness
  5. Star Wars Rogue Squadron II
  6. Metroid Prime
  7. Mario Sunshine
  8. Viewtiful Joe
  9. Mario Kart: Double Dash
  10. Sould Calibur II

Agree, disagree? Note: 11-25 were good, but forgettable, so I’m not going to copy them here (ahem, I’m too lazy to write them down).

31 Comments

  1. Cory says...

    11. Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
    12. Beyond Good & Evil
    13. Animal Crossing
    14. Pikmin Series
    15. SSX3
    16. Skies of Arcadia Legends
    17. Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero
    18. F-Zero GX
    19. Prince of Persia series
    20. Ikaruga
    21. Super Monkey Ball
    22. Killer 7
    23. TimeSplitters2
    24. Tales of Symphonia
    25. Luigi’s Mansion

  2. Cory says...

    And I’m glad that you said that you’re too lazy Blake, because I think many of the 11-25 were anything but forgettable.

  3. cronotrigger913 says...

    Metroid Prime needs to be a little higher than that. Below Rogue Squadron 2?! No, sorry.

  4. EdEN says...

    Take out Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, SSX3, Skies of Arcadia and Timesplitters 2 and the rest make up half of my GC collection.

  5. ResidentialEvil says...

    I personally would have put Resident Evil in the Top 10, and I certainly wouldn’t have lumped it together with Zero. RE is much better IMHO.

    I’m not sure I would have put Luigi’s Mansion in the Top 25. Is this person saying the Metroid Prime series at #6, because if not MP 2 definitely should be in this list.

  6. gametaku says...

    Funny Blake, real funny. You just dissed many of my favorite games. I’ll be teaching you the lyrics to “Oh No!” personally. You don’t have to thank me.

  7. Blake says...

    I was joking, gametaku, as cory pointed out.

  8. Jamie says...

    ToS should be higher, Re4 should NOT be higher than melee.
    Pretty ok list but slightly messed up as far as i’m concerned

  9. ejamer says...

    GameCube didn’t have nearly the library of games that PS2 did… but that’s still a great list of games.

    After missing last generation, I have managed to find most of those games used to enjoy on my Wii. Makes me extremely happy that Wii has FULL support for backwards compatability, unlike other systems.

    Games I’m still missing that look worth buying:
    16. Skies of Arcadia Legends
    18. F-Zero GX
    20. Ikaruga
    25. Luigi’s Mansion

    Announced reprints that I’m excited for on Wii:
    05. Star Wars Rogue Squadron II
    14. Pikmin Series

  10. Kannon says...

    Are you serious, many of 11-25 easily beat some 1 – 10.

    Killer 7, Beyond Good and Evil and Pikmin 2 being some of them.

  11. Roddy says...

    TimeSplitters 2 ROCKS.

  12. benthedorklord says...

    I agree with most of the games there, but not in that order. TimeSplitters 2 spent more time in my GameCube than any game ever made, especially for multiplayer.

  13. Brian says...

    Metroid Prime = 1st

    The rest of the list is really good.

  14. Lyskan says...

    What’s Sould Calibur?

  15. deepthought says...

    yeah i think that their list looks pretty spot on

  16. Wii Wii says...

    Smash Bros. Melee is over rated. It should be in the bottom of the top ten, at best.

    RE 4 was awesome and deserving of its high place.

    Star Wars Rogue Squadron II seems a little high, but it was a great game. Maybe switch places with Metroid Prime and it would be better.

    Still, a pretty accurate list of top games on the gamecube.

  17. RoyalRook says...

    F-Zero GX you dumb dumb. How could you? How could you as an Nintendo fan ignore F-Zero GX?

    Wii Wii go to youtube and type Smashbro + ken, m2k, or koreandj, and you will know the stupidity of calling SSBM an over rated game.

    Tales of Symphonia is not that good…maybe I have finally grown up, LOL. On the other hand, I wish I played Skies of Arcadia when it first came out.

    Blake how could you forget F-Zero GX? And you have Sunshine on your list?

  18. RoyalRook says...

    Oh wait I see it’s the GI list, oh well, that makes more sense.

  19. Damien says...

    Resident Evil 4, while being the most graphically intense and fluid gamecube game doesn’t deserve the number 1 spot.

  20. Psychedelic Sex Machine says...

    Metroid Prime
    Super Smash Bros. Melee
    Resident Evil 4
    Zelda Wind Waker
    Pikmin Series

    Regardless of the order you put them in (this would be my ranking), I don’t see how you argue with this top 5. Honestly, I can’t explain why GI didn’t even put the Pikmin series in the top 10… Behind games like Eternal Darkness, Rogue Squadron II, and Soul Caliber II?

    Yeah… Right…

  21. Paul says...

    @ejamer Get Ikaruga for any platform (GC or Dreamcast) because it is amazing. Honestly, it doesn’t matter if you like schumps or not, Ikaruga is a such a fantastically designed and super old school hard game that it pays off in the end even if you suck at it. The game rewards you for finally making it past a stage, which keeps you engaged. Highly, highly recommended.

  22. Cory says...

    Look at the uproar I started by posting the rest of the list, lol.

  23. Senkait says...

    I’m dissapointed Phantasy Star Online isn’t on there.

  24. ejamer says...

    @Paul

    I’d love to get Ikaruga, but can’t find it anywhere except eBay, and never at a reasonable price. One day, it will be mine though!
    :D

  25. Kannon says...

    Ikaruga is also on Xbox Live Arcade for 10 – 15$.

  26. KillerHeroes says...

    How come the two Pikmin games are lumped together? Metroid Prime 2 should be lumped together since it’s both equally good. My Top 5 –

    Metroid Prime/Echoes
    Resident Evil 4
    Zelda Wind Waker
    Killer7
    Eternal Darkness

  27. Jamie says...

    I didn’t ask before. but… What’s that game a screenshot for?

  28. GameGod says...

    @ Jamie, Rogue Squadron II, I know I ‘m going to be flamed like hell, but IMHO Soul Calibur 2 is the best fighting game on the Cube way better than Smash Bros, Combos are better & link together naturally, Visually it samshes Nintendo’s fighter, the animation is better too…
    Soulcalibur II is the ultimate fighter to me.
    F-ZeroGX & Timesplitters 2 should rank higher too… Just my 2 cent :P

  29. deepthought says...

    twilight princess omitted b/c?

  30. GameGod says...

    @ deepthought, hey, you are right!!!

  31. InvisibleMan says...

    I agree 100% with GI EXCEPT:

    – bump up Eternal Darkness out of the top 10 and put in Pikmin 2 instead!

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