So a couple things - When I got my GameCube on Friday, I got Rogue Leader, Monkey Ball, and Luigi's Mansion. Yesterday I got Tony Hawk 3 and Crazy Taxi both for GC. I already had Crazy Taxi for the DreamCast, but I wanted to see how the GC version fared. Well, the GC version is exactly the same, which is good for people who don't own a DC already, as the game is great fun. Tony Hawk 3 was strange because while it doesn't have the PS2 aliasing, it has a sort of washed out look that makes it "look" like a PS/PS2 game. But it's really smooth and very fun.

Also this weekend I had even more time to spend playing Civ 3, and I am absolutely ADDICTED to this game. Now granted, Civ, Civ 2, and Alpha Centauri are some of my favorite games EVER. Well Civ 3 is nothing more than a refined, harder Civ 2. Whereas for a lot of games this means "crap, more of the same," with Civ 3 it's done to near perfection. One of the major differences gameplay-wise is that as you make advances to USE them, you need to harvest more goods. Like when you learn horseback riding, you actually need towns with horses in proximity and other towns need roads to that town. With Gunpowder, it's saltpeter mines, et cetera. This difference changes the game a lot and makes it much harder, but still extremely rewarding. Pick this game up now if you were a fan of the originals.