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Game Information
- Platform: GameCube
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Explore a vast 3-D world lush in forestry, animals, puzzles and adventure
- Use a mystical staff to fend off enemies and cast a variety of spells
- Battle enemies with an intuitive targeting system that locks combat action
- Traverse land and water or fight through space using Fox's trusty Arwing fighter
- Build clever strategies to defeat huge boss enemies
- Technologically advanced graphics with Rare's fur-rendering techniques and lavish effects
- In-depth, life-like voice-overs and an atmospheric musical score
- For 1 player
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Fox McCloud is back, but he's left the on-the-rails shoot-'em-up larks of his previous two games behind--this all-new Star Fox adventure sees the super furry animal in a very Zelda-esque bid to save Dinosaur Planet.
Star Fox Adventures is the first, and sadly last, GameCube game from Nintendo stalwarts Rare, who previously created such N64 classics as GoldenEye 007 and Conker's Bad Fur Day. It's their last game for the GameCube because Nintendo have recently sold their shares in the company to Microsoft, which has caused an unholy stink from fans around the world and created even more anticipation for this game.
Although the control system is very similar to The Legend of Zelda's, Star Fox Adventures is no simple clone. It's your job as the mercenary mammal to find all the spellstones that will rejoin the splintered planet and defeat the evil General Scales. This entails much exploring of ancient temples and completing of sub-quests to help everything from Yorkshire-accented woolly mammoths to pterodactyls who've lost their babies.
The game may lack the epic scale and endless invention of Zelda but it has plenty of new ideas of its own, including a fully interactive dinosaur sidekick, some cool shoot-'em-up sections in Fox's spaceship, and lots of ways to upgrade your magical staff. To add some icing to the cake the graphics are absolutely amazing, particularly the super-realistic fur effects. So don't feel down that Rare are leaving, just enjoy their parting shot and let it whet your appetite for the new Zelda game coming from Nintendo in 2003. --David Jenkins
Computer and Video Games Magazine
"Looks beautiful and has hours of play time. 8/10."
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Ok, maybe not the best game, but it's well up there. Starfox is full of character, the other characters he meets are fantastic, and its just a brilliant game that doesn't deserve the flak its getting here.
Those who mourned the end of Super Mario Sunshine are well advised to get this game. Its short, but fantastic the whole way.
An absolute joy to play. I love starfox.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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It is a beauty of a game both in terms of Graphics and Gameplay.
The first thing you might perhaps notice while playing the game(especially if you played Mario Sunshine first) is the distinct lack of a jump button. At first this irritated me; when running to and fro I like to break the monotony by jumping about. After a while I saw a good reason for the lack of a jump button - the game doesn't become a simply jump fest. The game is (thankfully) not a test of your ability to perform jumping moves.
Gamelay wise - I found it a bit slow to begin with but, once it picked up pace it became rip-roaringly good fun. I liked the story (even though it was a bit of a cliché fest - hardened soldier-type has a soft-spot in his heart for those at need etc) and the voice acting wasn't atrocious which is always a plus. The puzzles aren't amazingly difficult so they will generally be solvable for the younger and elder gamers among us.
Something else you might notice about the gameplay if you are a nintendo fan - it is stunningly like the Nintendo 64's The Ocarina of Time. The upgrades - the battle sequences - this is not a bad thing!
There were some things that I wish they included more of - the flying sections. Starfox always was a flying game. I have enjoyed the foray into 3D Platforming but it would have been nice to have more than the odd few-minute flying segment thrown in (especially when the system is good enough to be a game in itself!). It would also be better if the game had more of a lastibility to it. Once you're throw with it (as with most platformers, I guess), you're probably not going to keep going back to it.
The saddest feature of this game is the fact that it is Rare's last effort for nintendo for a long time (who knows? They could return!). Upon finishing it, you are left with a slight depression - all good things come to an end.
Well - my summary:
Graphics - 95%
Sound - 80%
Gameplay - 90%
Lastibility - 80%
Overall - 86
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
This is a great last outing for Rare on Nintendo - really enjoyed this. Graphics are superbly detailed and quite jaw-dropping in parts, and gameplay is first rate. I was well addicted to this for a number of weeks, before completing it finally after about 20 hrs. Perhaps not the maturest of titles around, but who cares? Reccommended.
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