The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess

Out now for Nintendo GameCube [more GameCube coming soon, out now]

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Platform:	GC (Exclusive)
Developer:	Nintendo
Publisher:	Nintendo

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Despite all the hoopla surrounding the next generation consoles the most anticipated gaming event of this year is undoubtedly the latest The Legend of Zelda game. Subtitled Twilight Princess, the game looks radically different from The Wind Waker with less stylised, more realistic looking graphics.

As ever with a Nintendo title much of the game is still surrounded in secrecy, but previews have already shown the game’s enormous scale with huge areas of rolling countryside for you to ride your horse and battle various evil enemies. Indeed, the game seems more action focused than previous adventures, both on horseback and on foot.

One major new feature revealed in the game is that Link is now able to transform into a wolf. This gives him a whole suite of new features including the ability to "see" smells and access areas impossible as a human (or elf).

Despite the greater emphasis on action the puzzles in the game are even more elaborate than before with a forest dungeon revealing your ability to communicate with animals as your order around a troupe of baboons in order to solve puzzles and to help battle the end of level boss.

The GameCube could hardly have asked for any better swansong than this, with utterly amazing graphics and an apparently endless range of features and settings. Even with so little still known about it this is still on course to be the best game of the year. -- Harrison Dent

This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game; features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the finished game.

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