Underrated and Overrated Game Cube Games

[Kobayashi]

Make your list. The mine:

Underrated:
- Star Fox Assault: awesome Star Fox game !
- Sonic Heroes: Best 3D Sonic to date and the Game Cube version is the Deluxe version.
- Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Second best 3D Sonic to date and one of the best of Game Cube Library

Overrated:
- F-Zero GX: it´s just a good game, no more.

[Betagam7]

Underappreciated:

Geist
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
PN03
Killer 7
Second Sight
Luigi's Mansion

Overated:

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2
F-Zero GX
Metroid Prime

[slangman]

Underrated
Luigi's Mansion
Tales of Symphonia
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
The Simpsons Road Race

Overrated
Enternal Darkness (it's quite good, just too irritating at times)

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by Kobayashi

Make your list. The mine:

Underrated:
- Star Fox Assault: awesome Star Fox game !
- Sonic Heroes: Best 3D Sonic to date and the Game Cube version is the Deluxe version.
- Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Second best 3D Sonic to date and one of the best of Game Cube Library

Overrated:
- F-Zero GX: it´s just a good game, no more.

REALLY?! That's a depressing thought.

[Kobayashi]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

REALLY?! That's a depressing thought.

Yes. Really for me.

[Tides of Chaos]

Underrated:
The Simpsons: Hit & Run (great free-roaming game that's not rated M)
Star Fox Assault (Very, very good game. I wish I had this instead of Adventures. Multiplayer is greatly improved in this game from 64)

Overrated:
F-Zero GX (maybe I just can't get into it, but I don't really like it)

Hm, that's all I can think of ATM. I'm sure there's more but that might have to wait until somebody else's list reminds me.

[Refa]

Underrated
Crazy Taxi (the game Simpson's Road Rage ripped off of ;no offense to that game)
Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance (one of the greatest games of all time)
Mega Man Network Transmission (not good, but not total crap as some critics say)
Tales Of Symphonia (a damn fine game)

Overrated
Mario Party 7 (a 5.7 is too good for this game)

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Under:

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - Fantastic game. Probably doesn't/didn't get as much commercial attention because of genre or whatever rather than being critically underrated, but here it is.

[Refa]

Originally Posted by Jogurt the Yogurt

Under:

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - Fantastic game. Probably doesn't/didn't get as much commercial attention because of genre or whatever rather than being critically underrated, but here it is.

And because of this, it's now rare so not many people can play it today ...Kinda like the SMT games (except I'm missing out on those).

[Mr. Cheez]

Originally Posted by Refa

And because of this, it's now rare so not many people can play it today

Damn, yet another now-rare game I need to scour Amazon for.

Underrated

Bomberman Generation
The Simpsons Road Rage
The Simpsons Hit and Run
Mega Man X: Command Mission (despite the terrible story, which isn't a very good thing to have in an RPG.)

Overrated

Timesplitters 2
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II
Super Mario Sunshine

[Kobayashi]

Originally Posted by Tides of Chaos

Star Fox Assault (Very, very good game. I wish I had this instead of Adventures. Multiplayer is greatly improved in this game from 64)

Yeah. The Space Combat stages are superbs and the ground stages are very good too, especially when you can use the Landmaster. And the orchestrated soundtrack... ahhh... it´s amazing.

I make this video of me playing the 1st mission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFx9lLY5N1M

[Refa]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cheez

Damn, yet another now-rare game I need to scour Amazon for.

Underrated

Bomberman Generation
The Simpsons Road Rage
The Simpsons Hit and Run
Mega Man X: Command Mission (despite the terrible story, which isn't a very good thing to have in an RPG.)

Overrated

Timesplitters 2
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II
Super Mario Sunshine

Why the Time Splitters 2 hate?

PS I'm surprised that the Simpsons games are showing up here. Road Rage was a mediocre Crazy Taxi clone, and I did not take to Hit And Run (personally speaking).

[Tides of Chaos]

Originally Posted by Refa

PS I'm surprised that the Simpsons games are showing up here. Road Rage was a mediocre Crazy Taxi clone, and I did not take to Hit And Run (personally speaking).

Oh whoop, you're right about Road Rage being a lame Crazy Taxi clone, I need to edit my post! I meant to say Hit & Run was underrated.

[slangman]

Originally Posted by slangman

Overrated
Enternal Darkness (it's quite good, just too irritating at times)

I forgot to mention the Mario Party titles. Honestly after the 3rd on on the N64, the series just got duller and yet they sold quite well. Bah.

[Refa]

Originally Posted by slangman

I forgot to mention the Mario Party titles. Honestly after the 3rd on on the N64, the series just got duller and yet they sold quite well. Bah.

The 2nd one was the only good one IMM (In My Memory). The first had too many of those annoying Joystick Circles mini games, and wasn't the third one JUST minigames?...Or maybe not. I really don't member

[SKTTR]

Originally Posted by Refa

The 2nd one was the only good one IMM (In My Memory). The first had too many of those annoying Joystick Circles mini games, and wasn't the third one JUST minigames?...Or maybe not. I really don't member

No the third one was with an "RPG" mode.

[slangman]

Originally Posted by Refa

The 2nd one was the only good one IMM (In My Memory). The first had too many of those annoying Joystick Circles mini games, and wasn't the third one JUST minigames?...Or maybe not. I really don't member

Ah yeah, I kinda hated that tug of war in Mario Party. Although I reckon the first Mario Party was the best, because you could unlock more stuff.

[Tides of Chaos]

Originally Posted by slangman

I forgot to mention the Mario Party titles. Honestly after the 3rd on on the N64, the series just got duller and yet they sold quite well. Bah.

Well, they wouldn't exactly be overrated though as I'm pretty sure most critics hated them too.

[slangman]

Originally Posted by Tides of Chaos

Well, they wouldn't exactly be overrated though as I'm pretty sure most critics hated them too.

They seemed to sell well though. Otherwise how else would the sequels keep appering.

[Betagam7]

Although I initially put down GEIST as being underappreciated, after reading the awful scores it got in reviews, I have to mention that I think its probably the one of the most underrated GC games out there.

I ignored it due to the poor things I'd heard abotu it at launch but picked it up cheap to play on the Wii. Sure the graphics may not have been at the very top level but I found an intersting, entertaining and very well scripted slice of entertainment. The multiplayer looked good too although I never got to try it properly other than against bots.

I genuinelly enjoyed this game from start to finish and couldn't stop playing it. I'd love to see a Wii sequel or a NPC release that might open it up to a bigger market.

Definately an 8 or 9 out of ten in my book.

[Rabbidkillt]

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is tons of fun (to be played with bongos)

[Refa]

Originally Posted by Rabbidkillt

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is tons of fun (to be played with bongos)

So is it underrated or wellrated?

[Kobayashi]

Originally Posted by Rabbidkillt

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is tons of fun (to be played with bongos)

Then, the Wii version without bongos isn´t fun ?

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by Kobayashi

Then, the Wii version without bongos isn´t fun ?

No. It's a fairly easy and not particulary special platform game. I was very disappointed in the new play control version.

[Kobayashi]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

No. It's a fairly easy and not particulary special platform game. I was very disappointed in the new play control version.

Ok. I think about picking up the Wii version, some day, because I don´t like the idea of getting into drumming bongos.

[Refa]

Originally Posted by Kobayashi

Ok. I think about picking up the Wii version, some day, because I don´t like the idea of getting into drumming bongos.

I hear it's fun w/o bongoes. I may get thw NPC version myself.

[RetroNL]

Well rated: Starfox Adventures.

Mostly because it was not your every day Starfox game, this game had enough to offer for a platform adventure, though it was a bit short sided. It mostly got around 8/10 which is ok.
I still recommend this game to everyone who likes Starfox/Nintendo/platform adventures. It wont dissapoint you.