Viewtiful Joe
Joe is no ordinary man and Viewtiful Joe is no ordinary game. Capcom's new superhero action game mixes funky cartoon-style visuals with classic side-scrolling gameplay and introduces the world's quirkiest…
Viewtiful Joe is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Team Viewtiful, released 26 June 2003 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Viewtiful Joe is
Viewtiful Joe is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Team Viewtiful and released in 2003. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Viewtiful Joe is a side scrolling beat 'em up video game franchise created by Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya. It follows avid movie-goer Joe, who is pulled into the world of the movies to become the superhero "Viewtiful Joe". The series is published by Capcom and was primarily developed by its subsidiary Clover Studio.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Viewtiful Joe series
Viewtiful Joe is the first of 10 entries we hold in the Viewtiful Joe series. The next entry was Viewtiful Joe in 2004. Its critic score of 90 is 11 points above the series average of 79. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Viewtiful Joe holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Viewtiful Joe launched on 26 June 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Viewtiful Joe 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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All media
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Quick answers
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