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"Game of 2004"

To be honest there's been a lot of decent releases on the Gamecube this year.

Nintendo's finest efforts have come in the form of Pikmin 2 and Paper Mario 2. Pikmin 2 is near pin point perfection in everway, a purly addictive and well structured stratagy title which everyone should own whilst Paper Mario 2 is one of the finest RPG's since Pokemon.

Ubi-Soft have published Beyond Good and Evil and Prince of Persia this year and they all deserve a mention (especially the former) and they also published Harvest Moon, one of the most refreshing games this year (Whether you agree or not). Pacman Vs., although not a full game, should get a mention also.

But my game of the year goes to Free Radical Design's Second Sight. Not only fresher than Nintendo's superb sequels but in terms of pure freedom and fun it kicks even Ubi-Soft's master duo to the curb.

Excellent graphics, stunning story, original physics and in fact probably the greatest game released this year.

What is yours?

Pikmin 2. Immensely detailed and incredibly enjoyable game. A true classic. Beautiful and very well designed levels, all the improvements from the first one (*Caves*, 2nd Party member, Battle and Co-Op, so much more to do, the fun Piklopedia and Treasure Lists) make this my game of the year.

Although I have yet to play Echoes.

Paper Mario 2: The Thousand-Year Door gets the vote from me.

Beyond Good and Evil and several others... While I have played and found myself very much immersed and impressed by what each had to offer, even in the smallest of ounces, "The Nintendo Difference" makes it all count.

But for £13 (the pricve that a certain game playing retailer has it for) it probably IS the best game of the year (although Metroid Prime 2 is way better)

But goldeneye was infinitely replayable - Second Sight isn't. It was a great game, like I said, but it was just a bit easy. A lot of fun, but easy.

gerrid wrote:
> What the hell are "original physics"?
>
> Second Sight was great but it was a little too short and easy to be
> called a classic.

I finish Goldeneye much quicker, is that too easy then?

I loved the game, was my favourite game of the year.

But the games have all been released and you've had time to play them all - so it's a good time for a BEST OF. Just because you're too lazy to play your games doesnt invalidate this topic. What does, however, is that there are already several others.

Alright then, don't waste time replying then.

Oh wait, I'm getting a DS for Christmas and I still have a wekk left to play the rest of Paper Mario 2 to complete as well as playing Prince of Persia.

mattributé wrote:
> I'll make a decision when I truly can - when the year has actually
> ended

Yeah I forgot, there are loads of Gamecube games coming out next week...

Oh wait there isn't ANY!

Metroid Prime 2
I would have thought this would be known. ;)