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Don't believe the hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not even that innovative at all, and boring as hell to boot. The only reason to get this game is because you think it may appreciate in value over time. It's more of a collector's item than an actual game.

It is actually tied with Killer 7 for the worst game I've ever played.

King of the Cubivores

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Envision life cubed. You live in a cubed world, wander through cubed weeds and cubes full of water, and sport a cute little cubed body. When the sun rises it shines cubed sunshine and when the moon comes out to play, it also wears that shape. Other animals are shaped the way you are as well, and when you decide to eat you rip off cubed limbs and watch those cubed animals bleed puddles of cubed blood everywhere.

Cubivore is basically an evolutionary tale that takes you, a newborn, on a quest to be "The King of the Cubivores." To do that you have to find all the othe rtypes of cubivores, one hundred in all, and manage to "become" that type of beast. By becoming I'm not talking about the type of animal (ie: a pig) but instead the design of the limbs it has. The locomotion of the animal changes depending on what you take on, and you move forward in the game by adding appendages and taking out bigger animals. The addition of limbs comes from collecting certain types of things, which allow you to breed.
Ahhh, sweet cube lovin.

When you first start, you are weak and have to wobble around to find an advantage. You have one limb and, by the end, you can have five. That adds for interesting creature design and it adds for some really odd ways to take a beast into combat. You have statistics that control how strong your bite is as well and how much life you have, and you can also grow things like teeth and a horn that make you more powerful/ able to take off more of something. Along the way you also run across excercises that allow you to become more powerful, giving you a stronger bite or the ability to move in and bite off one of two limbs off of something in one swoop.

The flaws to the game is that it is an easy game to play, a button masher in some places, and tha you can beat it quickly if you simply wan tot play it through. Becoming the "King" is a little harder because you have to find all the different types of animals and sometimes that involves hidden areas and the coupling of types of shading, an dsometimes finding one of the hidden types is a little difficult. A few of the body types are hellish to use as well, making fighting almost impossible, and getting stuck with one of those is sometimes harsh. Still, an attack normally only knocks you over and takes one of your limbs at worst, and you can always get your limbs back by jacking up a lesser creature. So, running away works ooo so well.

That said, this is a great game and is one that I found fun. Its hard to find a different theme to play and this was one of those, and I loved it. I played it through until I managed to get all of the types, and then played some more to fight in some of the body types. As far as a "kids game;" the difficulty level is indeed easy BUT this game is all about ripping apart other animals. So, most people wanting something to sit and play their Gamecube to will enjoy this.
Its an underestimated game with a short playtime, but fun and something I liked. Try it first, see if you like it, and then buy if you find it sexy.

I love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: August 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME ROCKS! THE GRAPHICS ARE UNBELIEVABLE! THE GAMEPLAY STAYS FUN AND NEVER GETS BORING! I WOULD DEFINATLY RECCOMEND BUYING IT!

THIS GAME ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

MY FRIENED HAS THE GAME IN JAPANESE AND WE PLAYED I FOR HOURS!

One of my favorites

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fred's Review:
9/10 stars

Most people would consider this to be a game that was never suppose to see the light of day. Most people don't get games that are too "Kiddy" or games that are just plain weird. But what's wrong with that? I purchased this game and after an hour of playing I realized this game was awesome. It's easy to pick up and offers quite a good challenge. In the second story, one of the bosses i considered to be my most hated enemy, I could only take 2 hits without me dying but i found a clever way to beat it. I think most people need to try this game because you can learn something from it-That it doesn't matter how strange and weird the game is, but it matters how good the gameplay is. I know this game has sold very few copies but I found this game to be one of my favorite games. It's consumed more than 20+ hours of my life and I still go back to play it every once and a while. You try to become the King of The Cubivores by mutating 100 times(You'll have to go the game a few times to get that). You go through levels as a certain kind of animal(Pig,bear,chicken thing.) and you destroy the enemies to get to the boss who has a certain kind of meat. The bosses are frustrating at times because they have cronies too. I suggest you take out the cronies first but you just need to kill the boss and eat his meat to continue to the next level. After you have the meat yo can mate and mutate into a cubivore with one more limb than last time. This increases your attack,defense,HP,etc. You can change how you look by eating different color meat of enemies and you can also mutate that way. You continue through the levels doing this. Later you can get special meat that looks metallic that can super-boost your stats. After you get 100 mutations, you take on the Killer Cubivore (Final Boss) and you have to defeat him to become the king of cubivores. Try it out!

If you're looking for something unique, gobble this one up.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Even by my standards, Cubivore is a pretty strange game. In the game, you'll become a pig, a bear, and a bird. In your quest to restore Wilderness to the world, you must eat continuously until you gain 100 mutations (150 are possible) and eat the Killer Cubivore. The graphics are lacking, but the cubic art style is unique and interesting, and shiny surfaces actually look good. Playability is excellent, and you'll almost feel you've become your beast. Sound is the high point of the game, and although the music tends to get repetitive, the sounds of animals roaring and screeching was outstanding. Since the game's only good for one time through, there's not much replay value, but you're almost guaranteed to want to play through to see the end. And unlike some third-party games, there are few glitches. Good game overall, but there are some better ones out there. Now, if only you could eat people in the game or its sequel...

CUBIVORE IS THE BOMB!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and it was awesome. I rerented it for weeks and weeks on end and I've (almost) mastered it. Oh, and by the way, it looks sucky but it's good.

my favorite game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

all though this game sounds like a bad game it's not! its actually the best game ever. in this game you start out as a newborn pig whos destiny was to restore wilderness back to the land. mutate and mate. until you you mutate for 100 times then you battle the killer cubivore. but besides pig there is also bear[hardest 1player] and bird[best 1 player] So good luck at getting to the top of the food chain.

eats only cubes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Cubivore is a game that, if given the proper amount of care and fine-tuning, could have been a groundbreaking classic. As it is, this romp is only mediocre, with a few glimpses of originality. While the concept of following the life of your creature and evolving into 100 different types of animal and living in a Darwinian world of "survival of the fittest" is great, this appeal soon wears off when you find yourself stuck in the redundancy of it all. It's the same, old formula level after level, only more of it. And the game causes you to be reborn (to restart) three times already, so there's no incentive to go back and see it all again. With that said, Cubivore isn't great, but its quirky and clever presentation is something that's gotta be seen. If you can get it for a good price, then do so.

Hours-I-Will-Never-Have-Back-ivore

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game in a trade in at a local place, and boy was I excited! I heard it was like EVO for Super Nintendo, and frankly any game with custom evolution sounds like a blast to me.

At first I was having a blast. I totally dug the concept, the style, everything.

Then it started getting a little repetitive. No matter! When building up a character in any game, this happens! Unfortunately, the game is designed to periodically start you over several plot points behind where you just were. So it got even more repetitive as I had to accumulate the same major cube-limbs over and over.

Then, I beat it. What? That's right. In two nights, I beat this silly game. At first I was in shock. Then I realized I really did beat it. Once you've done all the little evolutions there is a bonus for some replay value, but really by that time you realize the repetitive nature of the game never stops and you don't want to go back and try again.

Add on the ridiculous problems with the mediocre camera and the rough controls, and you have a game that really just doesn't have enough content. 100 creatures to evolve into might be fun, except you can only do one thing with each of them over and over and over.

Is it still fun for little kids maybe? I dunno. There is a lot of adult innuendo, death-cries, cannibalism, and frustrating controls for a game populated with rough polygons. Sadly, those concepts aren't as fun as they sound either.

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