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a huge disspointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: August 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

for star fox fans, this is not your game. Star Fox on the N64 just had tank and flying and thats what we wanted. But when i got Star fox 64 i wanted foot missions, now that I got them, i have to face the fact that it sucks. The flying missions are great and fun and so are the tank missions. But then u go to a foot mission and the action is stopped by the controls of the onfoot missions. Its a good thing that there arent a lot of on foot missions. People dont buy this game. RENT IT! 100s of games to rent or buy just rent this

Hours of fun little cash

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My son is 10 and loves this game. Lots of scenarios, weapons, vehicles. Hours and hours of fun. If I didn't set the egg timer he'd be on there non stop.

The Black Sheep of the StarFox Series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After Star Fox "Adventures" came out, it was very obvious that The StarFox series had come to a rather sucky end. But when commercials came out for an upcoming StarFox game, it seemed like the new game would bring back the great StarFox gameplay of StarFox 64. Rather than doing that, Assault brought pretty much the opposite.

When I first turned on the game, the 1st level began as a sequence with some army of ships battling another army of ships. Then, The Great Fox suddenly flies through a big green circle to save the day, I guess. The Team, like in 64, runs thru a long hall to their ships. When Slippy gets on his Arwing, (I guess Namco thought this would be "funny") he lands on his head. When I finally got to play, the first flaw I noticed was that there was no Peppy flying with me. Instead, he was replaced with a blue-fox thingy named Krystal who does absolutely nothing to help you on the mission. Peppy, on the other hand, sits back in the great fox and yells commands. Fox, our valiant hero, now looks like a little kitty with sharp teeth and an Ash Ketchum voice. Another flaw is that annoying, high-pitched, crackly voice everyone calls "Oikany". Really, it's Andrew avenging Uncle Andross's death. At the end of the first level, you fight him in a pathetically easy boss battle. Once you kill Oikany, he defiles that awesome "uncle Andross!!!" line, then just dies. Suddenly, "Aparoids" begin to take over the Lylat System.
What are Aparoids? Probably the most generic enemy you have to fight in the whole series. They look like giant robotic aliens and bugs (How very, very original).
The level after that is the first on-foot shooting mission-and the controls are just plain annoying. If you want to aim anywhere else besides right in front of you, you need to hold the R button down and aim with the control stick. While doing that, you can't move around to dodge the enemy's shots, so expect this to be a frustrating experience. You can switch to "dual stick" controls (Where you use both analog sticks), but they are so sensitive and hard to master, I just stuck with the default. When you get into the tank, it's no different. And each level on-foot consists of the same set of enemies, on a piece of land that's usually floating. The weapons in on-foot mode are barley audible from the explosions and music, plus they just sound like little water guns. If you run out of ammo in all of your weapons, you have to play with the sucky blaster you start with.
What else? There are 10 missions. Only 4 of them are flying levels, and only 2 (besides the last level) have the classic forward-scroll-shooting gameplay. And the landmaster gameplay isn't as fun as in StarFox 64. If you can get a plane on a ground level, the only purpose of it is to shoot one or two enemies down in the sky that your allies are too foolhardy to take down. When your useless wingmates whine about an enemy on their tail, you'll also have to waste your time with that. Yet, believe it or not, I was almost somewhat entertained, until I beat the game after two days - that's right, two (2) days. A good game would take at least a week to beat on its easiest mode, but two days on bronze?
And the ending wasn't so promising either. Before the final mission,(SPOILER WARNING) Peppy crashes the Great Fox through the shield blocking Team StarFox from getting thru to the base, and Dies.
Then the poser team Star Wolf gives you a hand - yes, I almost forgot. The diabolical Brit Wolf with his challenging team have now been made into a poser American-accented pussie with a low-witted twosome who want to HELP you. That's right, his team attacks you in the third mission, but then joins your side in Corneria (Which is sadly not a flying level like in 64) for no reason. What the crap were Nintendo & Namco thinking??????!!!!??!!
In the last mission, Wolf also dies, while you head on to the Aparoid queen, who is a big, robotic alien. The Queen imitates Peppy, General Pepper, and Fox's dad, but the team, unfortunately, doesn't give in. After defeating the somewhat challenging boss, Fox states the LAMEST "inspirational" speech ever. After the credits (SPOILER) everyone who has died somehow comes back to life.
And there's more. The music is mostly from 64, but the classic soundtracks (such as the Star Wolf theme) are turned into slow, calm orchestral pieces. In the multiplayer mode, the music is just friggin smooth lounge music that doesn't fit in at all with the battle. The intensity of the game is taken away not only by that factor, but the simple fact that all the arwings fly slower, and enemies are easier to hit. What a kiddie game this is, despite in the Teen rating for "Fantasy Violence."
The only reason I played this game for weeks was to unlock "Xevious", an old-school, challenging, and fun mini-game by Namco. To unlock it, I had to get all silver metals on all the levels, which was only frustrating and repetitive. This cool bonus game still doesn't make up for all the screw-ups Namco made.
To sum up all this, StarFox ASSault just brings great pity to the StarFox name. If you are the truest StarFox fan of them all, this is no game for you or your gaming buddies. How did StarFox become so sucky? My theory is Krystal - if Rare hadn't combined the upcoming release of Dinosaur Planet with StarFox charactors, the Series' destiny would've been more promising. Overall, I'd prefer blowing my money on Super Mario Sunshine.

No respect for Starfox, again

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm never going to pre-order a game 6 months before it comes out ever again. Because every time I do, they stink. Nintendo/Namco whoever ALMOST got it right this time, ALMOST. Before I begin, STAR FOX is the team's name, not the fox's name. He is Fox McCloud. I don't know why some people seem to think his name is "Star fox." Also, the Arwing IS NOT A PLANE. Sorry, but I take Starfox quite seriously...
Ok, first off, I was shocked when I first played Starfox Assault, because it was looking real good. It seems they atleast tried to make a story this time, they finally got rid of a few of the lame characters, and most importantly, Wolf and Krystal are back. The action is really good at times and some of the levels are huge. There's lots of stuff to shoot at... and that's it, basically you just shoot stuff so the only real difficulty is how fast you can press the A button. After about 2 hours I was really getting into it, then, BAM - it's over..... 10 levels... TEN LEVELS folks! I'm sorry but that ain't going to cut it. I've had it 2 and a half days and already beat it 5 times. Starfox Adventures is many times longer than Assault, and I had that beat in about 15 hours. You'll be lucky to spend 15 hours total playing Assault, including re-playing and multiplayer, before you put it on the shelf for good. Next, the acting. I didn't recognize anyone from Starfox Adventures, but atleast the actors in that sounded as if they cared a slight bit about their job. The actors in Assault are HORRIBLE! You do not talk in the same tone in all situations. If I'm on the toilet, I'm going to use a different tone than if I'm being shot at. And I don't know how this is possible, but I'm actually tired of hearing Krystal talk. How and why does a blue vixen from space have a British accent? I'm not buying the accent, it just ain't happening. She didn't have it in Adventures. And the others spout off the same 2 lines about 15 times a minute. Try jumping over the wall in the second level and you will hear Peppy say the same thing 36 times in under 5 minutes. I'd sit for hours in Starfox 64 just hearing Wolf's actor say "what, is that all you got?" like he was atleast trying. But his actor in Assault sounds like he's not even being paid. Seriously, this acting is bad. I prefer the "voices" from the SNES Starfox than these guys. The graphics are great, as usual. Its for GC so the graphics will be great. But still, the characters look bad. Even Wolf looks bad, he looks like he's wearing shoulder pads or something. Krystal and Fox are the only ones that look half-decent. Peppy's head looks like an egg. And everyone elses head looks all squeezed up. The musics decent, but gets annoying real fast. There is no difficulty at all, just aim and shoot. The controls are irritating too. There's 7 buttons and only 2 or 3 do anything. Controlling Fox while on the ground is about the only difficult part of the game. Also, they took away several moves from the Arwing and Landmaster, and for what reason I have no idea. Anyways I understand Nintendo/Namco, whoever SF belongs to now, still sees Starfox as a kiddy game, so I guess I shouldn't have expected too much. It's still a good game (for 2 hours) but you probably won't want to play through it more than a few times. Adventures is a lot better, and SF64 is still a heck of a lot better. They tried with Assault, but just didn't wrap it up. Starfox has so much potential too, I hate to see these sloppy attempts at a game. I would've given it a 1, but since Krystal and Wolf are in it (extremely smart move bringing Wolf back, even if it was for all of 15 minutes) I'll give it a 2. Assault's still a decent game.

If I had it my way, I'd trash everyone but Wolf, Krystal and Fox and start SF over, having them all on the same team. But that ain't gonna happen so I guess I'll have to wait another 5 years for the next Starfox, which will probably be worse than this, and which will probably not even have Wolf, and all the characters will probably be upwards of 60 years old. Sly Cooper is slowly beginning to replace Fox McCloud as my favorite video game fur.

Star Fox Adventures fans beware

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I usually like to write reasonably thorough reviews, ones that give some isight into the game rather than simply rant.

On this one, I'll have to suspend my policy. Star Fox Adventures was my favorite game for a long time, only surpassed by the Ratchet and Clank series recently, and I HATED Star Fox Assault.

It seems like every 10 minutes you're facing some hard-to-kill miniboss. They dumbed-down the look of Fox McLoud himself - he's much more blocky and pixelated. I loved the velvety fur look from Adventures. The graphics of what goes on around him are great, but what's going on is little more than running around and shooting, interspersed with flying missions that were frankly annoying. And will the rest of the Star Fox team please JUST SHUT UP!

Star Fox Adventures was aptly named, it was an adventure with great environmental variety, a real plot, and loaded with interesting concepts and mental challenges; but Assault is just senseless running/flying around, overdone bosses and little real imagination.

If you're a fan of pre-Adventures Star Fox, please disregard. :o)

¡Falco is back!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: August 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Cool game this is the best game of star fox and you can use tanks,arwings and you can play in the earth star foxs rockss.

Fun but No Thanks!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun but only to a point, after a while it makes you feel wanting of a better story line. It is just a fight till you drop kind of game. The controls are somewhat confusing too. I got this game three hours ago and I am on the 8th of 10 levels. The voices got so annoying saying the same thing over and over again. The levels that you get to fly the Arwing in are amazing and there should be a lot more of them because they really stepped up to the Star Fox name. What they could have done better is the story line it had less of that adventure game feel. If they took the adventure of the last Star Fox game, added a heck of a lot more Arwing battles (after all this is "Star" Fox) and the graphics were as good as they are in Assault it would be a 5 star game all round. Although from what I've heard the multiplayer mode is just what game cube enthusiasts have been waiting for. Over all it just isn't what I expected from the "Halo for Game Cube".

Star Fox is it wroth it?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The star fox saga has always been a great joy since we frist laid eyes on him during the N64 days. But this new is great better then frist however the game is so short you could beat in One days time. The gharphics are great which is why i gave shuch a good score of 4 out of 5 stars. When it all comes down to is this game is more for rent then actully buying. But if your a fan of star fox pick it up other wise rent it.

very ok

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been so much better. The game was far to short, to much running instead of flying, and bad voice acting. The main reason I rented this game was to have that old star fox 64 feel. The times it did have that feel it didn't last near long enough. I would recomend this game to kids that like the series. But for adults, just stick to star fox 64.

Bad Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is only good for the space missions. On the ground the enemies get killed in two hits and some can only be killed if you fully charge your gun. The tank is hard to use and not all that great. Plus the amount of missions (ten) allows you to beat it in about 2 days. I would probably say only play this game if you are a big Star Fox fan. If not, then buy something else.

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