GameCube titles dated

By Ellie Gibson Published 26 September, 2005

Mario Baseball, Battalion Wars.

Nintendo has confirmed that new GameCube titles Mario Baseball and Battalion Wars will be in the shops by Christmas.

Mario Baseball is first up on November 11. The game features more than 30 characters from previous Mario titles, including Wario Ware, Donkey Konga and Bowser Jr. There are several game types to choose from including Exhibition mode, Challenge mode, Mini-game mode and Toy Field mode for up to four players.

Battalion Wars will follow on December 9. It's set in the 21st century where a minor border dispute between the Western Frontier and the Tundran territories has escalated into an all-out war. And to make matters worse, friendly neighbourhood despot Kaiser Vlad is now after invading - forcing the two armies to team up against him.

You can read more about Battalion Wars in our preview. And why not take a look at some Mario Baseball screenshots, too?

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Razz #1 6 years ago

    /crickets

  • tengu #2 6 years ago

    They're still making GC games?

  • cartman #3 6 years ago

    Did Nintendo say anything for pushing WarioWare: Twisted! back to Q1 2006???

    They are shite... I just placed an import order

  • Blerk #4 6 years ago

    What happened to Fire Emblem? >-(

    Oh well. Cheap Christmas Cube-wise, anyway.

    /puts wallet away

  • ST.. #5 6 years ago

    By all accounts Battalion Wars is ace. Go check out some reviews.

  • mattius30 #6 6 years ago

    Oh dear, my Cube will continue to gather dust... With absolutely no games catching my attention, trading-in is looking mighty tempting...

  • Thamuhacha #7 6 years ago

    >trading-in is looking mighty tempting...

    You'll only get £20 at CEX. Which is crap. I'm keeping mine in a cupboard until Twighlight Princess comes out.

  • RandolphScott #8 6 years ago

    Battalion Wars looks awesome. I'm considering buying a GC just to play it.

  • Blerk #9 6 years ago

    I'm still not 'getting' why everyone's going so ape about Battalion Wars. Possibly because there's sod all else of interest coming up?

  • Sid-Nice #10 6 years ago

    Blerk wrote:
    What happened to Fire Emblem? >-(

    Oh well. Cheap Christmas Cube-wise, anyway.

    /puts wallet away

    Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: 04/11/05.

    You didn't get your wallet out last Christmas. IIRC.
    Resi 4 and TOS, were Christmas present to you from you wife and kids.

    /Blerks wallet might have something to do with those moth stories. :)

  • Daryoon #11 6 years ago

    I'm still not 'getting' why everyone's going so ape about Battalion Wars. Possibly because there's sod all else of interest coming up?

    But you've had it in for the thing ever since it was announced as "3D Advanced Wars"!

  • Ninjamagic #12 6 years ago

    DS AW is best i reckon but i am waiting to see how it all pans out on BW.

    It looks nice, heres to see how it playeth.............?

  • Blerk #13 6 years ago

    It was offensive when it was billed as 'Advance Wars', now it's not offensive any more but still looks.... I dunno. Unexciting?

    And Sid, I bought Resi 4 with my own hard-earned, thankyouverymuch. Although ToS was a present, but given that I'm the only money-earner in the house I guess in reality I paid for that myself as well. ;-)

  • MetalJoe #14 6 years ago

    Whats happened to Odama?

  • Genji #15 6 years ago

    Battalion Wars is the best RTS ever to come out of a console.

    ...which isn't saying much. But it really is a great game.

  • Sid-Nice #16 6 years ago

    Battalion Wars looks good fun, I've watched the video review on Gamespot and I'm quite impressed, though the game is slightly on the short side. It would and could of been a blast with on-line capabilities.

    Mario Baseball Just like any Mario sports title, great fun in multi-player.

    These titles to me, aren't must have games, but I know I'm going to buy them. I may purchase the US versions when VG+ put them on price drop.

  • bootsy_NL_30 #17 6 years ago

    geez they sure do sound dated ...a good RTS and a mario sports title ...these guys really are stuck in the 90's....

    and these are the people that are serving up a revolution (read tv remote) so that we can finally play games with people that really suck at playing games and have been dissing games and gamers for the last 20 years or so....heres and example

    ....."nan your dreams have come true! you can now pretend to be that fat italian stereotype computer character on our tv screen that used to be an icon in the 80's and 90's playing baseball ...I know that doesnt sound that great.. but here , grab this clicker and swing the bat...see you hit that ball and the princess caught it and you swung the tv clicker and the ball ......long pause followed by commentry along the lines of grow up and get a life "

    is there anything else that gamecubes are good for other than being sent to india , having their circuit boards melted for gold?
    Edited by 1 at 26/09/05 @ 16:26

  • Hog-lumps #18 6 years ago

    Glad to see you're such an open-minded individual Bootsy.

    The revolution controller could be revolution or simply waste of plastic - either way I'll wait till I'm holding one in my hand before forming my opinion.

    Dismissing something without trying it first, is surely the sign of a cretin.

  • bootsy_NL_30 #19 6 years ago

    hahahaha nice one Hog Lumps I ,like yourself,try as often as possible to feel personally attacked when other people express an opinion or doubt in a product I own or have used,insulting them back on behalf of the manufacturer(that'll learn 'em)is also my way of relieving that built up rage that someone would DARE to be cynical about a consumer electronics product!btw I dont think I was dismissing it out of hand , just expressing doubt at the way Nintendo are marketing it.......so nah nah na nah nah

    ps ...(cretin)

  • Hog-lumps #20 6 years ago

    Not at all Bootsy.

    I don't plan on buying either of the next gen consoles till I try them (and the games) first - I'm not what you'd call an early adoptor or a 'fanboy' :)

    I just couldn't understand why anybody would be so critical over something the've never tried. Its a bit like those people who say they 'don't like pickled onions', without actually eating any...........iddiots.

    And from my experience, people who say 'get a life', usually are cretins......

  • bootsy_NL_30 #21 6 years ago

    Hog Lumps obviously that learning disability is getting in the way ...

    I'm not bagging something I havent tried

    I'm expressing doubt on the way it is marketed and its potential audience (eg non gamers....I think if you read what I wrote,what I'm getting at is that it is the childish imagery and the games themselves are what turns non gamers off these products not the intricacy of the controlers)

    btw people that use the word "cretin" have watched too many science fiction/fantasy films and need to....wait for it ...get..a...life :p

  • Cloudane #22 6 years ago

    Is. That. All?

  • Daryoon #23 6 years ago

    it is the childish imagery and the games themselves are what turns non gamers off these products not the intricacy of the controlers

    No, it's the 14-year-old-boy targeted violence-gore-and-sex imagery that turns a lot of non-gamers off. The DS and Nintendogs prove that non-gamers can be roped in by "kiddie" games.

  • bootsy_NL_30 #24 6 years ago

    I agree Nintendogs is a great example of bridgeing that gap

  • Kami #25 6 years ago

    I love it when people knock "kiddy" games - I think that is more a reflection on the immaturity of the gamer, not the console.

  • Lost_in_Darkness #26 6 years ago

    Yeah, I'm with MetalJoe.....i've not heard anything about Odama in a while. The title looked very promising, but Ninty haven't said anything about it in a long time.

  • Teeth #27 6 years ago

    I heard it got canned, but then heard news about it after that, so now I'm not sure of anything anymore.

  • ariesr #28 6 years ago

    I was hoping game prices for the GC would have gone down by now. Cos no matter what is new and cool out there (which seems to change every 3 months), you can depend on a good proportion of Nintendo games having quality gameplay.

    I'm looking forward to picking up games aplenty for the Cube, and keeping the console hand for folk to come round and have fun.

    How good do graphics have to be these days? Does the so called "casual gamer" see the difference anymore?

    It's not like the days of Jaguar/Saturn/Playstaion/N64 anymore.

    Do I want to appear "cool" to my peers who's opinion I believe I care about? Or do I want to really enjoy playing games and give my peers 30p to phone someone who gives a monkeys about their opinion? :D

  • ariesr #29 6 years ago

    Looking at this list of games for the next two months hardly means things are barren.

    http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/newItems.asp
    Looks like over 40 games. There has to be something for every GC owner there surely?
    Edited by 1 at 09/10/05 @ 17:16