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Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle for Nintendo GameCube
Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle for Nintendo GameCube revolves around battles between spinning tops in small arenas. You choose a Beyblader, put together a Beyblade and try to make your opponent’s top stop spinning or knock it out of the stadium. Familiar characters from the television series, such as Tyson, Kai and Ray, take part. You can also enter tournaments with a character you create yourself and change your equipment as you progress.
A battle starts by launching your Beyblade. The moment when you stop the power meter determines how you enter the fight. You then influence your top’s movement in the stadium and look for contact with your opponent. Bit Beasts add special attacks: the creatures from the series appear to support your Beyblade’s strength and speed. You therefore watch your own position, the other top’s movement and the right moment for an attack.
Parts give you more than 150 ways to customise your Beyblade. You try combinations as you progress through the tournaments and meet new opponents. The stadium can also affect the battle, for example through magnets and gates. Preparation therefore revolves around the equipment you choose, while during the duel you have to react to what happens in the arena.
Region and language
Our Nintendo GameCube games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle for Nintendo GameCube includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle
Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle originally appeared in Japan in 2002, published by Takara. The Japanese title refers to Beyblade 2002 and Magne Tag Battle. In 2003, Atari brought the GameCube game to Europe and North America. Its European name linked it to Beyblade VForce, the period of the animated series in which characters such as Tyson, Kai and Ray take part in competitions with their spinning tops.
The game grew out of the meeting of toys and television. Physical Beyblades consisted of parts that players could use to customise their tops; the cartoon gave the competitions characters and special powers. Super Tournament Battle brought those two sides together on Nintendo GameCube. You assembled parts as you would with the toys, while Bit Beasts made attacks from the series visible during a digital duel in a stadium.
When publishing the game, Atari focused especially on the customisable tops, tournaments and encounters with familiar characters. The game therefore aimed to recreate the Beyblade world that fans knew from television and the toys. Its arenas also made room for elements such as magnets and gates. Looking back, this GameCube release preserves a clear picture of the original Beyblade period: recognisable Bladers, tops assembled from parts and the Bit Beasts that turn an ordinary collision into an attack from the animated series.
Similar games for Nintendo GameCube
Custom Robo on Nintendo GameCube lets you assemble small robots from different parts and battle them in arenas. It shares the preparation of your own fighting machine with Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle. In Custom Robo, you choose weapons and movement components, among other things; in Beyblade, you build a spinning top and look for the right moment to launch it.
Gotcha Force revolves around collecting small Gotcha Borgs and assembling a team for battles. Its toy-like fighters make it a related choice within the GameCube collection. Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle keeps the action focused on spinning tops and their parts. In both games, your preparation determines the abilities you bring into an arena.
Digimon Rumble Arena 2 brings familiar creatures from an animated series into combat arenas, with Digivolution to become stronger during a battle. Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle uses Bit Beasts as special support for a spinning top. The similarity lies in familiar characters and a visible burst of power; direct control over the fighters differs considerably.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 uses duels between anime characters, combos and energy attacks. In Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle, the characters instead have their spinning tops do the fighting. Both give familiar powers from their television series a place in combat. In Beyblade, assembling and launching your top have a larger role in the preparation.
Super Smash Bros. Melee lets you knock opponents out of platform arenas with Nintendo characters and items. Removing an opponent from the arena has something in common with Beyblade VForce: Super Tournament Battle. Melee revolves around jumping, recovering and attacking with a character. Beyblade moves that struggle to collisions between spinning tops inside a stadium.
