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Star Fox 64's REAL sequel!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: July 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At E3, the game was shown, and it looked like it was a lot more like Star Fox 64 than SF Adventures. Anyone who liked SF 64, will like this game

This toy ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best Star Fox game EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has exellent graphics, great voices, story plot, and they began right where Dinosaur Planet left off.

It has versus mode, 1-P, and an unlocable mini-game.

In one player(1-P) you can ride in the Landmaster, Arwing, on run on foot with weopons like grenades, sniper rifles, machine guns, gatling guns, rocket launchers, nad sensor bombs(mines)on planets like Katina, Corneria's capital,Fortuna, The Aparoid Homeworld, Fichina, and an abondoned gangster base. The goal is to rid the Lylat System of the Aparoids, an species bent on ruling the universe.

In vs. mode, you can go on Titinia's desert, inside Zoness' sea base and a lot more!

*Warning Spoiler ahead!*

In versus mode, you can use more weapons and unlockable characters such as Wolf and Peppy.

On Corneria's capital, Fox lets his guard down and is surrounded by a squad of Aparoids.He spots Wolf in the sky and runs for it. He trips and falls from the top. Wolf saves him and joins Fox's side.

Okay the rest, well, just buy the game and find out!

Star Fox: Assault, Gamecube's equal to Halo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun. This game is similar to "Halo" with good single and multiplayer gaming. One downside however is that the single player missions are pretty easy, at least for me. There are only 10 missions and I beat this game in a week. The single player missions are fun, just short. Single player hosts a variety of weapons including the blaster, machine gun, rocket launcher, grenades, and many more. There are three ways to travel, by foot, Arwing(Basicly a plane), and Landmaster(Basicly a tank). In each level there are 5 flags which are hidden. This makes the re-play value pretty good, if you want to beat the game completely.

Multiplayer is amazing. It can hold up to 4 players each with their own section of the screen. There are different modes of gameplay. There is you basic "Kill the other players" mode, King of the Hill, and many more modes. There are various maps and you can unlock more by doing single player missions. You can decide if you want a map with Arwings, Landmasters, or both! You can even make it so you are limited to vehicles!

Grading

Controls- 10 out of 10
Single Player- 9 out of 10
Multiplayer- 10 out of 10
Graphics- 10 out of 10
Fun- 10 out of 10
Difficulty- 5 out of 10
Re-play value- 9 out of 10

OVERALL
Buy this game but make sure you have a budy to play with because single player won't last you long. I don't think you should get the game guide if you are considering it. Very good game.

Solid!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fox has done it again. Nintendo always revamps its games and this is no exception. Graphics are good enough to make Starfox: Adventures look like Starfox 64! Beatiful explosion effects and lasers. Sound is beautiful, gameplay is simple to learn but hard to master. I love this game, and I reccommend it to Starfox veterans or those fresh out of video game boot camp. Speaking of military stuff remember 4 player combat, because someday you'll hear some dude screaming "Remember the Titanian planes!" and then hear his Arwing get shot down.

A good game, but not Starfox64

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

One of the main reasons most people will buy this game is expecting a grand successor to the classic Starfox64. Unfortunately this game does not deliver that.

Don't take me wrong, this is by no means a bad game, but just like StarFox Adventures, this game is not truly the successor to the Nintendo 64 game. The game does not continue and exceed the 'original' game. The main interest for fans- Arwing battles- hasn't been improved upon at all. In fact, aside from improved graphics, they could be considered a disimprovement from the previous games. There is no real innovation in the bosses. They are much the same as bosses from previous games, their weak spots are more evident than ever, and require nothing but mindless blasting to defeat. Powerups such as bombs and hyper lasers have been almost eradicated in this game and are rarely used. Flying an Arwing is still fun, but emphasis in this game was shifted elsewhere.

Instead of concentrating on great Space Battles, a large portion of the game is spent on foot with a blaster. While this part of gameplay isn't poorly done, it's somewhat boring when all you really want is to fly your ship. The game creators did a decent job at creating a balance of power between the arwing, landmaster and pilot, but ultimately we aren't really interested.

The format of the game has also taken a change. Whereas Starfox64 let you choose your root through the Lylat System (greatly increasing replay value in my opinion) Assault only has one course of action and focuses on a linear storyline. Starfox Assault is significantly longer than Starfox64 and so replay is mostly limited to individual levels instead of replaying the entire game to achieve a higher score.

Still, replaying levels will allow you to earn awards and unlock special features for multiplayer. Multiplayer mode is fast-paced fun and can provide hours of great gameplay.

Despite my criticism, StarFox Assault is still a great game, whether you're a fan or new to the Starfox series. Just don't expect it to be the great replacement for Starfox64. For that, I think StarFox Command for the DS might turn out to be a better pick, or you could just wait a few years for something new to come out on the Wii.

#4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the fourth Star Fox in the series, I have and love them all so I don't think this one will be an exception.

I decided to write this review to clear a few things up that the other reviewers said that I know isn't true or they didn't put in enough.

First there is no chance that this game will come out on PS2 or XBOX because Star Fox is a Nintendo Franchise.

Secondly I'm fairly sure that you'll also be able to play as the girl from Star Fox Adventures.

Also I believe that they are sticking to the story and going along with the first three.

Best Starfox game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I remember when I was about 18 years old, I had gotten Starfox Adventures for my Gamecube. Later, I had became a huge Starfox fan,and found a used copy of Starfox 64. Later, there came this new game called Starfox Assault, and a year after its release, I had to have this game.

I really enjoy the music and Vs. mode of the game. But one of the biggest changes in Starfox history is Slippy's voice. Back during the days of Starfox 64 and Starfox Adventures, Slippy's voice was high pitched and sometimes a bit whiny. However, in Starfox Assault, his voice is a bit more masculine (although a bit nerdy)

This game is perfect for anyone who's been a Starfox fan since the first Starfox game for SNES.

To other reviewers.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: April 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the guys who gave this game lower than 4 stars are pathetic. The only reason they gave it that is because they prolly have an xbox and they have played halo\halo2.(don't get me wrong, excellent game.played it at a friends house.) but to all those gamecube only owners(like me)this is a halo for us. the only difference is that it is in third person istead on first person(like HALO!!!)so to all the guys like me who only own a gamecube, buy this. You won't be dissapointed.this is one heck of a game.

Good, Intense Fun...While it Lasts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's been eight years since gamers last received a fresh taste of traditional Star Fox, a franchise that revolutionized the space-shooting genre with its 3D environments in a world still dominated by sidescrollers. The release of Star Fox Adventures in 2002 provided fans with only a sample of its potential with today's generation of consoles, but the game wasn't supposed to be Star Fox to begin with, and thus didn't focus on the kind of gameplay Star Fox is known for. That potential finally got put to the test in 2005, when Namco released Star Fox Assault as the franchise's first true contribution to the Gamecube. The end result is a game that fulfills its potential as a spaceshooter...but the effort to make it more than that still leaves gamers waiting for the ultimate experience with the furry spacefarers from Lylat.

Star Fox Assault primarily reverts to the style of play last seen in 1997, with the release of Star Fox 64. Gamers play as Fox McCloud, leading his four-man team (well, three men and a woman) through the depths of the Lylat System to counter the Aparoids, which are basically an insect-version of the Borg. Play is primarily situated in the arwing, but several missions require gamers to fight in the Landmaster (another throwback to Star Fox 64) or on foot, with weapons ranging from the standard blaster to rocket launchers and grenades.

Arwing missions are as fast and furious as advertised, providing players with a space shooter of nonstop intensity. The ground missions provide an adrenaline rush of their own, but Namco's efforts with fighting on foot - a new offering for traditional Star Fox games - feel even more secondary than they are, both in value and execution. The real problem may be the length of the game: it's ten missions with three difficulty levels, and remains a one-day affair despite the potential to go farther. Making the game last longer than that depends on the extras, of which there are many to unlock (including three NES games), and multiplayer mode, which is fun, but would have done well to add more challenges, such as taking on masses of enemy forces rather than just your human-controlled adversaries.

The graphics, to say the least, get the job done. Arwing missions are very smooth, and the control is fluent. On the ground, however, things look a little less refined. Namco did almost as well with the Landmaster as with the Arwing, but whenever Fox and Company take to foot, they look very stiff, and don't move or execute attacks all that well. This makes for one significant chunk of the game being clunky and frustrating, and one wonders if the game would have been better off sticking to vehicles, and saving missions on foot for another day...and better programming.

The sound department provides decent support. The Star Fox team is well-cast, their voices feeling natural and performed as best as the dialogue allows. The rest of the cast - especially the extras - is hit or miss; the opening battle scene is cringe-inducing, but the remainder of the game's dialogue is handled far better.

The one step up for Star Fox Assault over its predecessors is music. While many of Star Fox 64's tracks were tame and forgettable, Assault revisits the intensity of the Super Nintendo days, providing a score that often compliments the scenario, rather than fade into the background. Having some fast, upbeat tracks reminiscent of the original Star Fox games would have been a bonus, but the score holds its own without it.

Star Fox Assault is not a very long game, as the average player can beat all difficulty levels with a day or two. The unlockables - especially the ported NES games - are one of the main reasons to keep coming back, but the gameplay alone offers enough intensity to absorb players for several play-throughs, whether it be from beginning to end or just playing missions at random. At the very least, Star Fox Assault is a rental that'll provide a couple nights of solid fun, and even more if you've got friends to join in. As far as the true potential of the Star Fox franchise, that will have to wait for another day.

New Star Fox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good from what i have played. The graphics are excellent and it has returned to its original format of flying in the arwing instead of being on the ground with a melee weapon. You do however get to drop out of the arwing and go on foot. When you do this it turns into a platformer like game. Like the 64 version you get the land master which now like the arwing has a charge. There were some things wrong with this game though it is alot harder to control the arwing. And you need to hold the R button to aim up or down. other wise its a good game which i would reccomend

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