The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is the only console Zelda title to date to incorporate multiplayer elements into its main campaign. Because of its single-player elements, Four Swords Adventures is…
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 7 June 2004 on Nintendo GameCube.
What The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Long ago in the kingdom of Hyrule, an evil sorcerer began kidnapping young maidens. This sorcerer was known as Vaati, and it seemed that no one could stop him. Eventually an adventurer appeared who was able to defeat Vaati, this adventurer carried with him the four sword which caused him to be split into four beings, and by working together the four beings were able to seal Vaati deep within the earth. But now Vaati has escaped, and the task of defeating him again has fallen to Link!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is the 38th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Classic NES Series: Zelda II - The Adventure of Link in 2004. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures launched on 7 June 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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