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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.

2nd best Star Fox Game to the N64 one!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Star Fox was my favorite game for the SNES. My favorite character was always Falco..he was just darn cool. If you played Star Fox on SNES or N64 you'll remember playing land, air, water, and space battles. This one is more like a mixture of Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox 64. You'll have to run and gun and get into your ship and fly through epic air and space battles..at bit of both worlds. The graphics are amazing when your flying but the on foot missions dont look as nice as Star Fox Adventures but still look good. I love this game so much Im having to buy it all over again..stupid me, I sold my gamecube and all my games. Ill be play this gem on the WII. If you can find a copy its a must have.

Star Fox Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the Star Fox Assault game for my 15 year old son for Christmas and he has spent hours of play on it. He shared this game with the whole family and it is a very fun game to play. I even loved playing it. I would recommend this game to anyone.

BEST game in history

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If I could wish for anything in the world it would be this.If you think running is boring try riding in the land master or arwing.Go bazar and cause as much havoc as you can imagine in vs. mode. Incase your wondering vs. mode is multiplayer mode where you battle each other with all the weopons and vehicles[that can attack]from 1p mode. This is for 1 player only. It should be called story mode because you battle in an order of levels and before and after every level you'll see a short clip. I think it should be rated E 10+.I swear you must get this game it will change your life forever

Great edition to the Star Fox series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Star Fox Assault is a great edition to the series. Not only can you fly in your Arwing, but you also must complete missions on foot with a huge arsenal of weapons, like your blaster, machine guns, and gattling guns. The multiplayer is also great with a lot of battle arenas. My only complaint is that the main game is way too short, with only 10 missions. But this is still a great game.

Gamespot says "A must play" I say "Piece of crap"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would like you to know that gamespot didn't actually say that. And this is the first star fox game I have played. Now that that's straightened out, this game isn't very good. The only thing that saves it from 1 star is graphics and weapons. That is the only "good" thing in this hunk o' junk. The controls take too long to get used to, the missions were to weird(not "unique", weird), and the enemies leave nothing to the imagination. And the HUD is also weird. And if the next person who reveiws also includes a "counter-review" of mine, saying that I have to high standards or no taste, I'll say "My standards arn't high and I have plenty of taste. This game just sucks!"

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.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My fiance greatly appreciates this game...he has almost beat all of the missions already! Thanks!

Enjoyable but short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun. It has plenty of on-ground action on foot and with the Landmaster, but Arwing action is slightly limited which may disapoint oldie hardcore fans. Learning the controls is pretty easy. It has beautiful graphics and smooth animation.. The characters all have pretty vivid personalities (especially Slippy, hes so cute) except for Fox for a reason I'll mention later. The voice actors are pretty good. Falco sounds like he's a ganster, which is pretty appopriate, and although Krystal's British accent is pretty weird at first it grows on you. They were all pretty top-notch except for Fox himself. The voice acting for Fox pales in comparison to his lively, personality-filled, younger sounding voice in Adventures and often fails to convay any emotion (otherwise it would be pretty good). The missions themselves are pretty fun, especially the on foot missions for fans of Adventures, but the downside is that there are only 10, and they're kind of short. About ten more would have made it a more fulfilling game. On that note, unless you have friends to play multiplayer with, or you get a serious deal on this game, I would only rent it because most likely, especially if you are a veteran fan, you'll finish this the day you buy it and the ending isn't very fulfilling (I haven't beat the last mission yet but I have seen the ending). Being that this game is short, the plot is also rushed and there is not much development of the story, although it had good potential. Star Fox Assault is pretty child-friendly, despite the teen rating. The scene of Pigma being possesed by the Aparoids and his boss-form may scare some younger kids, but from what else I remember its pretty mild except for of course normal shooting violence. There's no blood however, and the enemies do dissapear after you kill them. In short I would reccommend giving this game a rent because the few hours you play it are very enjoyable.

A good return for the fox.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good: Fun gameplay ; Great voice acting ; Ability to repeat your missions in different difficulties to beat your score ; Good variety of land and air missions ; Up to 4 players in a multiplay battles ; Unlockable goodies.

Bad: A short game of only 10 missions ; multiplayer won't last that long.

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