Zoocube – Gamecube Game

in 2006 in Europe by Midas Interactive Entertainment.

Gameplay

In ZooCube, players score points by matching animal heads that fall towards the faces of a rotatable cube. The player also needs to make matches quickly so that heads don’t build up too much on the cube which can cause the player to lose, in a similar fashion to Tetris. Along the way, the player can acquire power-ups which can help the player in various way or hinder an opponent in multiplayer mode.

Plot

A mad scientist Dr. Buc Ooze has been conducting “controversial research into animal shaping”. And has left many animals misshapen or in otherwise unnatural forms. In response, a machine “ZooCube” is created. As a result it reverses the effects Dr. Ooze’s experiments. However, the player, “Aon”, is task with rescuing all the trap animals, traveling aboard a “flying ark”. And arm with the “ZooCube”.

Reviews

However, ZooCube receive mix positive reviews. It has a score of 67% on Metacritic. Also Game Informer wrote that ZooCube was “everything a puzzle game should be: simple, fast, hard, fun, addictive and serviceably pretty.”

Awards

Moreover, ZooCube receive two E3 awards in 2002. The first was “Best Puzzle Game for GBA” which was award to the Game Boy Advance release by IGN, while the Game Cube release and was award “Best Puzzle Game” by Planet Gamecube.