gamecube shoot em ups/beat em ups

event

im looking to get some old GC games, but want a few shoot em ups (like the metal slug series) or beat em ups, (like the street fighter series)

are there any available and which are the best?

Star Lord

Super Smash Brothers Melee is good fun, but can deteriorate into just frenzied button mashing.

Soul Calibur II is probably my favourite weapons based fighting game ever, plenty of depth and skill involved with it.

Retr0gamer

Not many games like Metal Slug on the GC. The closest thing to it would be Contra Shattered Soldier on the PS2.

If you like Shmups like R-type or Raiden then you can't go wrong with Ikaruga. Only problem is that it's hard to find. You could also try Chaos Field and Radilgy when it is released next month. Both are import only.

For Beat'em ups you can't go wrong with Smash Bros. and Soul Calibur 2. You can also try Viewtiful Joe 1 + 2, both excellent arcade style platform beat'em ups.

Rhyme

Retr0gamer wrote:

Ikaruga.

When i read the title i knew Ikaruga would come up and it'd be you saying it... i am now adamant that i'll get a copy from ebay before this summer, even if i have to shell out 60 euro for it.

But yeh, Soul Calibur II is awesome on the Gamecube... worth a look.

scrapland

Alien homind & Ikaruga

Retr0gamer

Forget Alien Hominid. It may have got some good reviews because it was an independent project but it doesn't excuse it for being rubbish.

When i read the title i knew Ikaruga would come up and it'd be you saying it... i am now adamant that i'll get a copy from ebay before this summer, even if i have to shell out 60 euro for it.

Just get a DC and use the, eh, same method I use to play Border Down.

Attol

OMG Icaruga is so much fun! I love it. It is such a hard game but really fun. I got it for my friend for Christmas in England last year but only played it two weeks ago. I was hooked. Am now really hoping to find a copy for myself. I'm warning you though it is really hard so if you easily give up it may not be for you.

Retr0gamer

I think the toughness is offset by how pick up and play friendly it is. Great for a quick blast but becomes a different beast when you start to master it. It's no harder than other games in the genre.

TheAlmightyArse

I hate Ikaurga's scoring system, but I love it anyway. It's got some wonderfully designed levels a the central mechanic of swapping your ships polarity on the fly is put to use in ways that play with your head like no other shooter.

And yes, Alien Hominid is a really weak Metal Slug clone. It's indie and it looks lovely, but it kills you off in the cheapest ways, over and over.

More votes for Super Smash Bros Melee and the two Viewtiful Joes (1 is better than 2, but for a really nasty difficulty spike).

Banjo

Even more votes for Smash Bros, V. Joe and Soul Calibur II. I really enjoyed Def Jam - Fight For New York, it's not very difficult or deep but it's good crack smashing a mate's (or Snoop Dogg's) head off a car bonnet, or turning an embarassing beating around by throwing your oppressor in front of a train. Load times are annoying, but when Ice T tells you he got yo' back, who cares about a few minutes wasted watching a loading bar?

1huge1

for a shoot em up you gotta get timesplitters 2
brill game

Attol

Yea, Timesplitters 2 is actually Goldeneye 2 because of random studio politics the developers of that game f*cked off and released it under a different name for a different studio and changed it around to make it Timesplitters.

Banjo

Wouldn't that make it Goldeneye 3? (or 4 if you count the original Perfect Dark...) I found Timesplitters a little un-engaging. Might be because if the lack of continuity between levels (not just in story but in the type of weapons available). It's a great multiplayer game and the slightly mental challenges really help the longevity but I thought the single player campaign was too disjointed to keep me coming back for more.

Then again, I liked True Crime : Streets of LA so I'm hardly an authority.... (If you can get past the bugs, the overwhelming size of the map despite the almost total lack of areas with any individual character, the awful plot and cheesy dialog (which I saw a plus points, being honest) etc etc. you get a pretty fun game that's usually dirt cheap. It's sort of a bastard love child of GTA 3 and Big Trouble In Little China, raised by wolves, schooled by the Harry Callahanian Friars and sent to work cleaning John Woo's chimneys at the age of four. If you find it for under a tenner 2nd hand it's good for a weeks worth of shooting civilians and laying down some kung-fu law. Jumping Monkey Kick!

TheAlmightyArse

Yum, TimeSplitters 2. The "story" levels are pretty by-the-numbers in terms of design (though I love the disjointed nature; spying-it-up in 90s Russia one level and Wild West jailbreaks the next), but the real single player is in the excellent arcade challenges. And multiplayer is great, and benefits from having bits and pieces from anything the designers felt like, even moreso than the story mode.