I've owned it for two weeks, and well, I don't see myself playing it much more.

But it's been a fun two weeks. Completing story mode, wininng all five cups on all four classes, buying all the cars, unlocking 14 of the time attack ghosts and, best of all, unlocking Mrs. Arrow's character movie (now that WAS worth unlocking! )

I loved this game. Graphically superior to almost anything, agood assortment of characters to sue, the make your own ship feature was a great idea and helped me a lot in clearing the cups, good music, and jsut plain fun.

Only criticisms would be that story mode was far too hard. The difficulty curve for the game is high and was appriopriate for the cups, but for story mode it was a joke. I lsot a lot of brain cells over enarly every misison in story mode. I could only complete the rescue Jody mission on Hard, anything else just drove me mad. I thought the last three missions were incredibly sadistic, and I don't thing unlocking Deathborn was an appropriate prize for completing something as ahrd as Story mode! He sucks!

I just wish I could've unlocked the 10 secret characters, but since I suck at Story Mode, I never will. And that I unlocked a few more of the character movies. I really would've liekd to have seen Jody Summer's movie or Mighty Gazelle's movie.

Out of interest, a few questions:

1. Which characters did you like using most?
2. Which characters do you hate most?
3. What did you end up winning?
4. How long did it take you?
5. What's your favourite custom ship?

For me:

1. Mrs Arrow (Queen Meteor), Mighty Gazelle (Red Gazelle) and Jody Summer (White Cat)
2. Deathborn (Dark Schneider), Black Shadow (Black Bull), Captain Falcon (Blue Falcon)
5. Frost Lynx G-4

And I already answered the other two above.

I'd give the game 9.5/10. I foudn the difficulty curve okay in the end, but I think a lot of gamers would suffer a lot of frustration over this game. It requries a lot of skill and figuring out the best custom ship in order to go far in this game. One of the best Gamecube games by far.