One Piece: Treasure Battle!

One Piece: Treasure Battle! is a party game for the Nintendo Gamecube, published by Bandai and released in November of 2002. It was the first One Piece game designed for a sixth-generation console, as well as the first to feature fully three-dimensional gameplay.

Story
Rocky Hattari, a top reporter for The Blueberry Times and lifelong pirate admirer, opposes the Marines' domination over pirate-related news. Hoping to reveal their "true" story, he organizes the Treasure Battle, an elaborate athletics/fighting tournament on a small island chain near Arabasta, and invites all the fiercest pirates he has covered for the Times. As grand prize, he promises the mysterious Treasure Cards, said to be able to grant any wish.

Naturally, the tournament attracts the Straw Hat Pirates, together with traveling companions Vivi and Ace. Based on the competitions' two-on-two brackets, they split into four teams: To obtain the Treasure Cards, they must battle not only one another, but past enemies such as Buggy, Arlong, Crocodile, and Smoker—as well as Rocky himself.
 * Luffy and Vivi
 * Zoro and Ace
 * Nami and Sanji
 * Usopp and Chopper

Playable Characters

 * Ace
 * Alvida
 * Arlong
 * Mr. 2
 * Buggy
 * Crocodile
 * Don Krieg
 * Luffy
 * Mihawk
 * Nami
 * Miss All-Sunday
 * Chopper
 * Rocky Hattari
 * Shanks
 * Smoker
 * Sanji
 * Tashigi
 * Chopper
 * Vivi
 * Zoro

Scenario
Story mode. There are 4 stories to choose from:
 * Luffy and Vivi - 'Easy mode'.
 * Zoro and Ace - 'Normal mode'.
 * Sanji and Nami - 'Hard mode'.
 * Usopp and Chopper - 'Very Hard mode'.

The player will fight 3 Treasure Battles in a row, then have a special mini game for the 4th, and then a best-of-3 round Treasure Battle for the conclusion.

A Treasure Battle is a fight between two teams. The team that can successfully carry a treasure to a goal, preventing the other team from taking it until time up, wins. After winning a Treasure Battle in the story mode; players get a Treasure Card.

Match-up
The player chooses the stages and characters.

Treasure Battle
"Treasure Battle" is a (two-player-in-each) team game, and has players grabbing a treasure chest and putting it into a boxing ring at the end of each island level, then literally waiting for their ship to come in. Once their pirate ship arrives, that team wins. A team can throw the chest to each other over a limited distance, lob it in the direction they are facing over a greater distance, or even use it to attack the members of the opposite team who are doing their best to grab the treasure chest and take it back to their own boxing ring, and their awaiting pirate vessel.

The screen is split in the "Treasure Battle" according to how many human players are involved. In one-player mode, the full screen allows a decent view of the action, but the 2- and 4-player splits reduce the action to an extremely small view that can make it very hard to determine what is really happening.

Battle Royal
"Battle Royal" is a similar game to "Treasure Battle", except there is no chest and the arena is more confined. Each team just bashes the opposition about, as much as possible, for just under 3 minutes. All players are displayed on the full screen, which will zoom in and out depending on the spread of the action.

Kung Fu Survival
"Kung Fu Survival" both teams are placed on to a very small island inhabited by large numbers of Kung-Fu Dugongs. Whichever team beats up the most dugongs within the time limit wins. The player can walk right up to a dugong and attack it in the face, or if they choose Zoro they can have him attack with a kendo. The dugongs are basically defenseless, but if a player is standing motionless, may wander over and attack with a headbutt or flipper strike.

Team Work Rally
"Teamwork Rally" has each team passing the chest to each other across gaps that can't be jumped over whilst carrying the chest. The race to the finish is a careful balance between taking risks to get the edge over the opposition and being careful at other points to avert disaster.

Cross Country
"Cross Country" is an individual race to the end of each stage of a longer race. Each player gets a score based on their position at each intermediate stage and the team scores are totaled at the end of the whole race. The race is conducted along a series of different jumps, ladders, islands and narrow passageways.

Pirate Soccer
"Pirate Soccer" is pirates playing soccer. Except the ball is enormous and can crush the players if they fall under it. They have to use their attack moves to push the ball through goals at each end. Each half is 90 seconds.

Treasure Hunt
"Treasure Hunt" has players wondering around randomly until an arrow appears, directing them to hidden treasure.

Trivia

 * While the game does not openly reference any events beyond the Arabasta Saga in its storyline, it does include several characters from the Sky Island Saga in silent cameos, most prominently Masira (who provides various instructions and tips from sidebars and loading screens).

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