Star Fox Adventures (GC)

You can immediately tell what I am doing with my time when I come up with a second games review for the Gamecube, a console which I've never had any great interest in before we got to this time of year! Whether or not you like the game Starfox Adventures really depends entirely on whether you are expecting the typical Starfox shoot 'em up in his classic Arwing. Because if you are, you may well be disappointed. There are aspects of that in getting to the other worlds, but by and large Starfox Adventures is more of a platform puzzle game, and to give credit a good one at that. (And yes, I know I should be revising, but where's the fun in that!) ===Boring ...  Read the complete review

While never quite on par with the Mario or Zelda franchises, there’s no denying that Starfox, known as Starwing and Lylat Wars in it’s 2 previous incarnations in Europe, has been one of Nintendo’s most reliably entertaining and successful series, with it’s arcade style shoot ‘em up gameplay standing out amongst Nintendo’s more ‘epic’ single player titles. However, when Nintendo’s Gamecube came around, it was decided to take the series in a different direction, and at the time 2nd party company Rare were drafted in to produce their last game for Nintendo. At the time Rare had been working on an adventure title named Dinosaur planet, and instead of starting a ...  Read the complete review

This is the final RARE game on a Nintendo home console, it is the first Starfox game based on foot, it mixes game styles of Zelda and Starfox together and looks better than Gail Porter skinny dipping in a vat of Dr. Pepper. So on paper Starfox Adventures was set to be the game to end them all. Instead that isn't quite what we got. True to form the Starfox team are assigned to yet another peacekeeping mission on Dinosaur Planet, with a new pay rise the team are more than happy to comply. Dinosaur Planet has been torn apart and Fox McCloud is sent to sort it. After discovering the planet had been attacked by the evil General Scales (groan) Fox sets about ...  Read the complete review

Star Fox is one of Nintendo's most loved franchises, and put in the hands of rare, there is no reason to expect anything but a brilliant game. Sadly, Rare took the game in a slightly disappointing direction by creating a plaatforming game as opposed to the sort of flying game I would have expected (although there are some limited flight sections). This is something you should really be aware of if you are considering buying the game because if not you could be really disappointed. Apart from the unusual direction, the game itself really isn't too bad. It is a little slow paced, and you will spent plenty of time collecting things and travelling etc. You are ...  Read the complete review