Eternal Darkness - I actually haven't gotten my hands on this yet, myself. It is the highest one on my Gamecube wishlist. But I have seen gameplay of it, and the game is creepy as heck and looks like a great experience. The game uses light and dark in such a great way.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - Great Gamecube game. Big, epic adventure. Confession time, though: As it may be a great Gamecube game, I still feel it was weaker than many of the other Zelda games. But still a fun game in it's own right. The art-style in this game is cel-shaded, however, a new thing for Zelda games at the time. And using a ship for travel is the gimmick here. Still has all the adventuring, dungeon-battling, and item finding fun of a Zelda game, though.
Metroid Prime 1 & 2 - Very atmospheric, eerie, and alien-feeling game. The game does a great job of conveying this. The music is amazing, and the graphics are jaw-droppingly gorgeous, considering it was released on Gamecube. However, don't go into it expecting a First-Person Shooter. While the controls are similar, the game is an entirely different animal. This is usually the complaint of those that hate on it. The game focuses heavily on exploration, and you find upgrades that sort of level-up Samus as you go.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X - The pinnacle of the old-school Resident Evil games. This is the biggest, the best looking, and has the most monsters of any of the old-style Resident Evil games. Originally released for Sega Dreamcast.
Resident Evil 4 - A massive shift in the Resident Evil series. The first of the "modern" Resident Evil series, and Gamecube is the original platform for this game. Special Agent Leon S. Kennedy battle the Las Plagas and Wesker with new gameplay, gorgeous graphics, and an all-new storyline and all-new creatures/monsters.
Super Mario Sunshine - Great 3D platformer, one of the best I've ever played. Heck, I even prefer this game to Super Mario 64. The people that don't like this entry in the Mario series are turned-off by the fact that it's not a familiar Mario game, set in the Mushroom Kingdom. However the gameplay is excellent and truly lives up to the Mario legacy.
Super Smash Bros. Melee - This is Super Smash Bros. for N64, but perfected with many more levels, characters, modes of play, and unlockables. A fighter like no other (not counting it's predecessor of course) in it's gameplay starring Nintendo icons.
WWE: Day of Reckoning - Great wrestling game. If your into wrestling, I highly recommend it. Fun for a vs. game with a friend even if you aren't a wrestling fan.
Multiplatform Mentions:
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance - Action-RPG set in the Forgotten Realms (Dungeons & Dragons) universe. You basic Diablo-style hack-n-slash gameplay with the Forgotten Realms license. I love that sort of game, and if you do you'll like this.
- Mega Man Anniversary Collection - Collects Mega Man 1-8
- Mortal Kombat: Deception - Great fighting game if you like excessive gore and over-the-top fighting, and you love tons of unlockables.
- Sonic Mega Collection - Collects all the Sega Genesis Sonic games, spin-offs included.
- Spider-Man - Awesome action game based off of the movie, with spectacular wall-crawling and web-slinging game-mechanics, fun-fighting system, and tons of unlockables
- Spider-Man 2 - Based off of the 2nd movie, this game veers into the open-world gameplay syle, unlike the linear first game. Again, the web-slinging and wall-crawling mechanics are a blast, but different.
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