Star Fox: Assault

Star Fox Assault for the Nintendo Gamecube was a worthy addition to the series. The graphics and music are outstanding and the voice acting is mostly improved from previous titles. There are some minor quibbles to make. The game could stand to be a bit longer and the on-foot controls could be better (turning around while on foot is an agonizingly slow process, especially in the multi-player). Still, the game provides fast action and lots of variety. The last mission in particular is incredibly intense; pure Star Fox.

The best part of the game may be the plot and character development. The telepathic Krystal adds a fantastical element to the science fiction. Her relationship with Fox McCloud is developed (one wonders why a character like Fox, who has killed thousands of people/creatures in battle, acts so embarrassed when confronted with the issue of romance).

Also of note is the relationship of Fox (an orphan) with several de facto father-figures. He becomes very protective of his aging mentor Peppy Hare. Fox also has a strange relationship with Wolf O'Donnell. The older Wolf claims to hate Fox, yet repeatedly saves him. While not exactly on good terms with Wolf, Fox has some level of admiration for him and takes his advice to heart. It reminded me of the relationship between Amsterdam and Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York (right down to Wolf's missing eye).

Finally new villains are introduced, the Aparoids. They are partly- mechanical insects. Many have compared them to the Borg from Star Trek, but I feel they owe at least as much to the Formics (or "Buggers") from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Either way, they are a distinctly non-mammalian form of life, and as such inspire a fearful reaction.

A great gaming experience overall, I highly recommend it.

Another game that I played after playing Star Fox Adventures is Star Fox Assault. Like every Star Fox game this has Space shooting in fighting enemies. Of course this game does not forget the one of the most popular vixen in the Star Fox franchise Krystal.

Like always the shooting in the game remain pretty good. I get to maneuver around, shoot enemy ships and even fight bosses. I almost broke my hand in fighting bosses too.

As for the land combat I can finally get to play Fox by using his blaster. Although the controls here in the game felt a bit odd Unlike the shooter games today because how I controlled Fox looked more I am controlling a droid on wheels. And let me tell you that the enemies are tough than I remembered which really convinces me to use the other weapons in the game like the machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers and including the vehicles like Archwing and Landrover which in land combat it can used as vehicles.

The game's campaign mode just felt to short to complete. It only took an afternoon to completed it. And even in the multiplayer the unlockables are too long to complete because it does not really go online mode.

If they plan on making another Star Fox game I would not mind getting another sequel or remakes that can actually go online mode.

Lylatwars (Star Fox 64 for you US one-way readers) was one of my favorite game on the N64, and since 1997 I have been waiting desperately for a sequel, In 2002 I got Star Fox Adventures, Which was NOT Star Fox in the least, It was an Adventure game not a 3D Space shooter like Lylatwars was. Then this came at first I was exited thinking it was too good to be true.

Now I realised it WAS too good to be true here are 10 things I was disappointed with in this game:

10: They ruined the Landmaster tank, It can no longer rapid fire, and is harder to control 9: The Multiplayer does not have any CPU controlled players or extra enemies, (If it did It would have extended the life of the game) 8: Not enough missions (only 10, Lylatwars had 16, and you could choose different paths) 7. Peppy isn't a pilot anymore 6. The collisions are not as responsive as they were in LW 5. Would it have killed Namco to give Star Wolf a 4th member? 4. You can't damage your teammates yourself now. 3. Focuses too much on ground based missions (which is NOT true Star Fox style) 2. You Can't carry over power-ups (like bombs) to the next mission anymore. 1. The Game focuses too much on the changing storyline (Who cares about the storyline, Those are for Movies and RPG's not 3D Space Shooters 0: The Game is over too quickly.

I bought that game as my 3rd on Gamecube,and i still think that it's very cool.I played Star Fox 64 earlier,but Assault is the best Star Fox game in my opinion,now.Of course,it's short and sometimes it seems very hard,but multi player is cool and i really enjoy it(of course it's too bad there'e s no computer players,but that's not important).It's too bad Peppy is no longer a pilot.but i can't imagine a 50-year-old pilot;).Tough missions are rather short(except the Aparoid Homeworld)they're really cool-looking.Music rocks as well,especially on Orbital gate or Theme of Star Wolf.I don't really care what others think,i say that-STAR FOX:ASSAULT RULESSSS!

wow, i had great expectations for this game, i mean, a new developer should get over that abysmal star for adventures, and it does. The ship combat is beautiful, but the controls are kind of off. the tank combat is fun, but the tank is hard to control. the on foot combat is bad, but it manages to bring you into it. the script writing is OK, a lot of the dialog is really corny (dang, fox help me out! who says dang?) I'm not going to ruin anything for anyone, but the ending was the worst part, way too corny. the voice acting sounds great, but some of the actors need some acting lessons. the difficulty is nice, not too hard, but not a pushover either. the multi-player is fun, giving you the option to use any vehicle and most weapons, but there aren't many features except for unlockable characters. a capture the flag would be awesome. overall, nice, fun, a quick little romp in the star fox universe.

7/10