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:
- Resident Evil 4
- Zelda Wind Waker
- Smash Bros. Melee
- Eternal Darkness
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron II
- Metroid Prime
- Mario Sunshine
- Viewtiful Joe
- Mario Kart: Double Dash
- 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).
December 12th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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
December 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Metroid Prime needs to be a little higher than that. Below Rogue Squadron 2?! No, sorry.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Take out Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, SSX3, Skies of Arcadia and Timesplitters 2 and the rest make up half of my GC collection.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I was joking, gametaku, as cory pointed out.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
ToS should be higher, Re4 should NOT be higher than melee.
Pretty ok list but slightly messed up as far as i’m concerned
December 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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
December 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
TimeSplitters 2 ROCKS.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Metroid Prime = 1st
The rest of the list is really good.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
What’s Sould Calibur?
December 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
yeah i think that their list looks pretty spot on
December 12th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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?
December 12th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Oh wait I see it’s the GI list, oh well, that makes more sense.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Resident Evil 4, while being the most graphically intense and fluid gamecube game doesn’t deserve the number 1 spot.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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…
December 12th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
@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.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Look at the uproar I started by posting the rest of the list, lol.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:42 am
I’m dissapointed Phantasy Star Online isn’t on there.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:41 am
@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!
December 13th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Ikaruga is also on Xbox Live Arcade for 10 – 15$.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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
December 13th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I didn’t ask before. but… What’s that game a screenshot for?
December 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
@ 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
December 14th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
twilight princess omitted b/c?
December 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
@ deepthought, hey, you are right!!!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I agree 100% with GI EXCEPT:
– bump up Eternal Darkness out of the top 10 and put in Pikmin 2 instead!