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While many
UK
gamers have deemed the GameCube all but dead-and-buried, the
industry itself would have a hard time considering the system
anything but in its prime. With Revolution details still pretty
thin on the ground, even after the systems’ unveiling, continuing
to establish a GameCube user-base is still clearly top of
Nintendo’s priorities.
E3 2005 is anything but a sleepy-session for the purple
wonder-box, as Nintendo pull a few big-hitters from up their
sleeve. Yoot Saito’s Odama has returned after what seemed
to be a year in development-hell, bringing with it further use of
the GameCube Microphone originally packaged with Mario Party 6.
Other add-ons have been utilised with Donkey Konga 2
allowing another bongo-bashing session and the new Dance Dance
Revolution: Mario Mix developed in conjunction with Konami is
bringing dancing games to the GameCube for the first time (with the
exception of Mad Catz US only release – MC Groovz Dance Craze).
While there  are few surprises, Super Mario Strikers and Hello
Kitty: Roller Rescue offer a nice touch of light-refreshment
from the hours spent blasting marines in Geist and hunting
down the elusive Shadow Pokemon in PokemonXD: Gale Of Darkness.
Of course, all this is almost totally disregarding the
biggest announcement from the gaming gods, and possibly the biggest
announcement of the show – The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight
Princess. We’ve all seen the one-minute video, some of us
were lucky enough to see the three-minute video and those of us who
know the right people in the right place got the seven-minute
video, but now, we’ve played it…
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