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WORST GAME ON THE GAMECUBE... EVER.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the WORST game I have ever played on the GC - which is sad since I'm a bit of a nintendo fanboy. I own every nintendo console that has been released in the U.S. - even the Virtual Boy. That said I have 37 Game Cube games at last count - and this is the worst I own. I gave it an honest try - >1 hour attempts on multiple occasions - but I just couldn't get into the game. The controls didn't make sense to me and the graphics weren't enough to hold my attention - even though some of the characters were "stacked." I only paid [...] for it used at Gamestop - and STILL felt ripped off.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game over all is pretty good. My only problem is when you think you got a good handle on the ball, it goes in an opposite direction. The gameplay is pretty good, the girls are hot, and four player mode is alot of fun.

Do Not Ogle: Professional Athletes At Work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like some of the other reviewers, I had to try every Beach Volleyball game on every format before declaring Spikers as my favorite. What surprises me about some of the other reviewers is that many of them are not into sports games, yet Spikers is the most professional sports title of this genre with simpler play features.
Anyone can play using the A/B buttons and basic punt/set/spike rules, just like many old arcade games. Sounds like that can get boring, but the game gets harder and faster as it progresses and it does have some alluring features that go beyong rubbing suntan oil on your digital partner.

Character design is basic, unlike the other VB games. You have only one athletic body design but can create players with over 70 faces and 100 outfits and skin tone. The mini games may not be as fun as the minis in the other VB games, but at least Capture The Flag and Beach Bomb are authentic beach games. Maybe the developers could include Dodgeball and Combat Kiting in the next version(...). Sure the music and the announcer are lame, but who says you have to listen to anything more than replay spike knocking down your opponent (...) with full bass THX.

Franchising is where Spikers really shines as a professional sports game. The world tour is based on the actual Swatch-FIVB tour and has real organizations like Holiday Inn and Coke. Even the green/blue volleyball that you see in the other video games has the Mikasa logo in this version. And about that Nissan ZX prize, well what does a girl have to do but win if she can't race the Gran Tourismo, right?
The only thing lacking is beer commercials, because this is as close as you can get to professional volleyball without watching it at 3am on ESPN. So stop watching and start playing.

Great Multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If your looking for some eclectic multiplayer action than beach spikers is the game for you. It is an overall pretty good game but the single player mode is too easy and it's hard to play it for a long time in a row. The gameplay is exactly like that of Mario Tennis for the N64. There are limited controlls and short games which can either be a downfall or a thrill. In this case they're a thrill. Because it is easy to get the feel of the game it is okay to play with a rookie. There are also mini games available in multiplayer. Beach spikers is wicked fun but please don't buy it expecting to play for 12 hours straight. I say it is worth a try.

Rattings out of 10
Fun 9
Graphics 10 (Beautiful characters)
Sound 5

Toss it around

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not too fond of extreme sports games, but Beach Spikers offers a refreshing taste of fast-paced, arcade-style volleyball. ... That I liked. Of course, the single player mode is short-lived and, as you progress, somewhat frustrating because your partner is AI-controlled. But multiplayer is good, quality fun (2 vs 2). The games setup may seem a bit intimidating at first, and it requires good response / reflex, but the fluidity and quickness of the match makes this a good game to play with friends when shooters and racers have worn their welcome.

Best beach sim, period

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I play on the MPVA, as do my roommates. This game totally rocks, hands down. It's not perfect volleyball, no, but it's as close as anyone is going to get. Building up your girl, bleh, fine, take every pass, anyone who plays knows you can put the ball away off of anything. The real fun is in arcade mode. Beat your score each time. You hve to kick it up to very hard to even get a slight challenge, and only the latter teams give it, but damn, working torwards perfection can get strenuous and fun!
Multiplayer is where it's at tho, no doubt about it. We have the girls college team over and everyone just sits and plays for hours, it's that damngood, and intuitive.
You don't have toi be a player to play the game, but as an outsider, realize that this is the best sim available

Real Volleyball

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'll take this one over DOA:X any day. It's a REAL VOLLEYBALL game. A damn good one too.

Not As Much Fun As I Thought It Would Be

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't sure what to expect...but this came just didn't WOW ME like I thought it would. I would have been better off renting instead of buying. I played it for about 2 days.

mildly fun single player, good multiplayer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

BEACH SPIKERS is fun. It looks really good, the girls are cute and varied in a non-chauvanist fashion, and the gameplay is easy to pick up. But for a single player, the gameplay is also limited.

In my opinion, the World Tour Mode, where you pick a non-skilled partner and compete around the world against other nations, is the only real playable element to this game for a single player. Your partner is terrible at first, but after a series of matches and proper encouragement, you get points to improve her skills. By the time I completed the first go-round, my partner was better than I was.

Unforunately, when you're playing a one player game and the other three players are handled by the CPU, you're only playing about 25% of the game. The rest is spent watching the court spin around and the CPU girls do their thing. It gets boring.

The mini-games are pure filler and not worth visiting more than once. They're a real disappointment. The tutorial, too, has some elements of filler in them.

I can see BEACH SPIKERS being a really fun 4 player game, however, just as long as everyone is relatively close together in skill level. It would be really easy for one skilled player to dominate the court. I would recommend it as a potential party game, but if you're a solo-player, I couldn't see you getting more than a week's worth of playtime out of BEACH SPIKERS. Definitely worth renting or picking up used.

Fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game, once my computer-controlled teammate became good enough to compete with.

When you first start out in World Tour mode, your teammate plays really badly. As in, the ball hits her in the hands and falls to the ground. You pretty much have to resign yourself to losing every match for the first few stages. Even the weakest teams will beat you. Luckily, even when you lose, you rack up points which you use to improve your partner's abilities. I finally started enjoying the game once my partner got enough points to quit dropping the ball -- but it took a lot of playing (and losing) to get to that point.

I disliked the annoying announcer and wish there was an option where you could turn it off without disabling ALL of the sound effects.

I don't think you can edit hairdos or costumes on your created team, which is a downer. If you want to use any "new" costumes (which you earn by completing various tasks) you must start a brand new team. Which means you're stuck again with a computer-controlled partner who plays badly. If there's a way to edit your existing team, I haven't discovered it.

Despite the flaws, I'm really enjoying this game (especially now that I can beat some teams). The graphics are very good and the gameplay is excellent.

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