The Game Show:Zoocube for the Nintendo Gamecube, the Gameboy Advance and the Playstation 2

Save the animals(from being made into weird shapes)!

In this very nifty little puzzle game, the maniacal Dr. Buc Ooze has transformed a series of animals into odd shapes, so it's up to you to save the animals and return them to their natural state! Players stack "animal shapes" on a multi-sided block(the "ZooCube"); when two like shapes are connected, an animal is freed. The animals range from cute to funny to cool to just plain weird(the hippo and the koala)!

 Various powerups, which enable such things as faster stack rotation and removal of excess shapes, are available in the game, as are various goodies which are worth extra points. There are also bonus rounds which occasionally occur between levels.

The GBA version is somewhat different from the GC version, mainly in that rather than animal shapes, players stack various geometric shapes together. (Personally, I always thought the GC version was the better of the two due to the fact that you can actually see the rescued animals in that version, whereas in this version you can't.)

There's also a PS2 version which seems a bit more rare(and also isn't currently available on Amazon). I haven't played it personally, but I'd wager it's probably similar to the GC version.

Pros:-A very clever, original puzzle game with tons of replay value.

        -Beautiful, beautiful graphics.

        -Virtually no learning curve.

       

        -Very cool BGM.

Cons:-The game's storyline is very inane and utterly pointless. Like Prey the Stars, this game doesn't really seem to need a storyline, at least IMHO.

         -The shapes that come toward the cube from directly below are(in my experience, at least) the hardest to keep an eye on.

Overall, a very cool and innovative game that's hard to put down(you may ask me how I know...

:-D). If you like animals and you like puzzle games, and particularly if you like puzzle games about animals, this is the game for you!

Buy it on Amazon!