Your Task Will Be Compounded By Evil Rivals Including The Occasional Boss. solo Players Can Embark On Any Unlocked Mission In The Quick Mode. Two Players Can Battle Head-to-head Via A Split Screen In The Duel Mode. although The Developers At Konami Concentrated Mostly On Killer Combat There Is Still Plenty Of Fancy Riding To Be Done. The C-stick Can Be Used For Various Grabs The Y Button Lets You Grind And With The Control Stick You Can Perform All Manner Of Spins And Flips. the Action Zooms Along At A Quick Pace With Smooth Animation And A Good Sense Of Speed. You Can Customize Your Rider With Authentic Gear From Extreme Outfitters Like Airwalk Billabong Vans And Burton. roadrunner Records Artists Like Slipknot Stone Sour And Five Point O Lend Their Tracks To The Game. Evolution Snowboa. The year is 20XX and the world has been overtaken by evil Boardroids. It's your job to save the slopes. Along with some of the top snowboarders in the world, including Danny Kass and Todd Richards, you'll take on a variety of enemies, challenges, and boss characters as you attempt to win back the world mountain by mountain. Luckily you're equipped with the latest in snowboarding gear to aid you in over 80 missions on eight of the wickedest levels ever imagined. There are eight areas, from Kowloon to Boom Town, and the opportunity to gain alliances with 10 of snowboarding's top pros. You must punch, kick, and throw your enemies to help accomplish your goals and earn points on the slopes to improve your boarder's skills.

The Mobile Monitor is a 5. 4-inch, high-resolution color display that attaches to the back of the GameCube. The unit comes with built-in stereo speakers and RCA-type component audio and video inputs (the round red, yellow, and white plugs), letting you use the monitor with DVD players, VCRs, and even other game systems. The simple pass-through design allows you to connect your GameCube to a larger TV without having to disconnect the Mobile Monitor; it simply folds down over your GameCube when not in use. The Mobile Monitor also comes with brightness and volume controls, a headphone jack, and a car power adapter.

In English: the GameCube is optimized to push speed up while pushing costs down; hence its position at the lower end of the price spectrum. The GameCube is the first Nintendo video game system to use a disc-based medium rather than cartridges for its games. Moving the software to disc media generally means lower development costs for the publishers, which, in turn, trickles down to the consumer not only in price, but also in availability and quality, as it's then easier to try out untested game ideas (Pikmin, anyone?). While most other systems likewise have their games stored on discs, the GameCube's 3-inch format is smaller than everyone else's, and is so designed to fit in a shirt pocket as much as to deter would-be software pirates. Of course, the main advantage of the GameCube is that it's the home field of one of the world's premier game designers: Nintendo. While powerhouses Electronic Arts and Sega make games for all systems (including this one), you can play Nintendo games only on a Nintendo system. And Nintendo, you might recall, has been hitting them out of the park since it started with Donkey Kong. In fact, here's a roll call of characters and series you won't find on the other consoles: Mario, Legend of Zelda, Perfect Dark, Metroid, Kirby, and, of course, Pokémon. A few names that the GameCube will share with the other guys: Madden, Tony Hawk, Sonic, Batman, and Star Wars. The system also comes with four built-in controller ports, so you can easily plug in extra controllers and let friends join in for the multiplayer games-it's even got a built-in handle so you can easily move it to a friend's house. It comes with two memory card slots for saving your progress through games, and there's the capacity for future expansion into the world of online gaming. In short, the GameCube isn't an all-in-one entertainment system, and neither is it the most powerful of the modern video game consoles. But for video game enthusiasts who want to stick with their favorite characters, its value cannot be beat. -Porter B. Hall Unit Specifications MPU (Microprocessor Unit): 485 MHz custom IBM PowerPC Gekko Graphics Processor: 162 MHz custom ATI/Nintendo Flipper Texture-Read Bandwidth: 10. 4 GB per second (peak) Main Memory Bandwidth: 2. 6 GB per second (peak) Pixel Depth: 24-bit color, 24-bit Z buffer Sound Processor: 81 MHz custom Macronix 16-bit DSP Sound Performance: 64 simultaneous channels, ADPCM encoding Polygon Performance: 6 to 12 million polygons per second (peak) System Memory: 40 MB Main Memory: 24 MB MoSys 1T-SRAM Disc Drive: 128 ms CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) system Data Transfer Speed: 16 Mbps to 25 Mbps Media: 3-inch, 1. 5 GB capacity disc Controller Ports: Four Memory Card Slots: Two Audio-Video Output: Analog and digital Dimensions: 4. 3 by 5. 9 by 6. 3 inches (height by width by depth).

Other game modes include exhibition, season, World Series, home-run derby, and batting practice. Seven authentic stadium camera angles give you a TV broadcast view. Features exclusive to the GameCube version of All-Star Baseball 2002 include two new stadiums-Safeco Field in Seattle as outfitted for the 2001 All-Star Game and Puerto Rico Stadium-and features updated graphics for many other stadiums, including PNC Park, Miller Park, and Oakland Coliseum. You can now change fielders and control checked swings. There is an all-new CPU defensive assist option and broken bat technology.

While most other systems likewise store their games on discs, the GameCube's 3-inch format is smaller than everyone else's, and is so designed to fit in a shirt pocket as much as it is to deter would-be software pirates. Of course, the main advantage of the GameCube is that it's the home field of one of the world's premier game designers-Nintendo. While powerhouses Electronic Arts and Sega make games for all systems (including this one), you can only play Nintendo games on a Nintendo system. And Nintendo, you might recall, has been hitting them out of the park since it started with Donkey Kong. In fact, here's a roll call of characters and series you won't find on the other consoles: Mario, Legend of Zelda, Perfect Dark, Metroid, Kirby, and, of course, Pokémon. A few names that the GameCube will share with the other guys: Madden, Tony Hawk, Sonic, Batman, and Star Wars. The system also comes with four built-in controller ports, so you can easily plug in extra controllers and let friends join in for the multiplayer games. It even has a built-in handle so you can easily move it to a friend's house. It comes with two memory card slots for saving your progress through games, and there's the capacity for future expansion into the world of online gaming.

While the quest can be played single-player, it's meant to be tackled by a group of people (preferably four). Since each player utilizes menu screens often, Square and Game Designer's Studio decided that you could only play multiplayer with a Game Boy Advance attached to the GameCube. Hence, all menu management is done on the GBA screen, and the action on the TV is unaffected. In theory, this is a just solution. As it turns out, though, I found it to be more detrimental to the quest than anything.