Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8228 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 45496962074
• Released on: 2005-04-29
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: GameCube
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .35 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Nintendo fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief: StarFox Armada is here and the unpleasant memories of the disappointingly bland StarFox Adventures can be forgotten forever. The original StarFox game (called StarWing in the UK) was the first ever 3D console game and Nintendo’s reinterpretation of classic 2D shoot ‘em-ups like R-Type and Gradius. Instead of flying sedately from left to right across the screen though in StarFox you zap through gargantuan space armadas and over bizarre alien worlds in what is undoubtely the best Star Wars game never made.

This long awaited sequel, developed by arcade masters Namco (creators of Soulcalibur and Air Combat) features even more of the same, with all the expected improvements in graphics and detail. However the main thrust of the game is the innumerate multiplayer modes with a four player co-operative mode where everyone can pilot their own fighter or simply sit on the wing of someone else’s and take pot-shots with a laser gun. When you’d prefer to hurt your friends rather than help them there’s also a full-featured deathmatch mode, where you get to run around on foot using sniper rifles and rocket launchers or climb aboard one of the various spacecraft and tanks that litter the arenas. This more open style of gameplay adds a whole new to dimension to the game, almost turning it into a kind of mini sci-fi version of Battlefield 1942. So forget about all that tedious object collecting from Rare’s unsung swansong and experience StarFox the way it’s mean to be. --David Jenkins

Manufacturer's Description
Step into the guise of furry flyboy Fox McCloud as he returns to take on his deadliest enemy; wingmen Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare and Falco Lombardi are covering your back, as you take on hordes of intergalactic hostiles on land and in air.

Hop into Arwings for aerial skirmishes and Landmaster Tanks for ground-based confrontations, or simply run around on foot dispensing laser justice; the searing single player adventure is a total blast, while the glorious four-way split-screen mode is sure to keep you and your friends coming back for more. With sniper rifles and rocket launchers, this is one Fox you don't want to mess with!

Customer Reviews

Like Adventures, Lacks content.
Star Fox Assault like Star Fox Adventures feels like another "almost" in the series, due to suffering again with a short lifespan.

Like Adventures, you'll very soon be saying "Is that all?" as with only 10 missions to complete (only half involve the classic pure Arwing missions that we have all grown to love in this series) you'll most likely finish this game on easy in one sitting, however thankfully there is an incentive to keep on playing with harder modes of gameplay and 2 other methods of playing the story.

The Single Player mode is a great experience at the start, but slowly starts to repeat itself as most of the mission objectives are similar and use the same plots from Lylat Wars, you will at least say twice when playing "Hey, Hasn't this happened before?" if you have played any previous Star Fox game.

Sporting a soundtrack with newer versions of the old music from Lylat Wars and a couple of new mixes, they aren't out of place and suit the level they are used on, but the lack of a Arwing engine noise except when boosting does leave the game sounding rather boring if your flying to another target on the map. The character voices thankfully are much better than Lylat Wars. (No more hearing a toad that breaks windows with his high pitched voice every time he asks for assistance in the battle.)

The graphics on this version finally do the series justice. The screen is constantly busy with other events happening aside from what your doing without any noticeable slowdown. The first mission starts off with a large fleet attacking each other and while your attacking the small enemies, you'll see giant battleships firing lasers at each other. This feature alone impressed me a great deal as previous Star Fox games didn't have much going on in the background.

The multiplayer is nothing special, all of the gimmicks put into it have been seen before in other games and there is nothing really that will amaze you despite having numerous unlockable extras for this mode.

This game could have been so much more if only they had more missions to complete or gave the player an option of which planet to go to next like in Lylat Wars. On the plus side, the developers listened to the public's cry and included a level select so you can replay your favourite level without having to progress through the story mode every time you wish to play it. They also provided the player the chance to save after every successful mission in story mode so they can take a breather, but one cannot get the feeling they only added these to make a short game last a bit longer. For those who enjoyed Lylat Wars' Arcade-like stance on story mode, you will like Survival Mode, similar to this game's version of Story Mode, but leaves out the save option forcing you to finish the game in one sitting.

In terms of Unlockable extras, it feels rather uninspired, You can unlock Namco's old shooter Xevious after finishing missions on a certain difficultly. That, and mostly unlockable extras for the Multiplayer fail to impress, This could have been Nintendo's golden chance to put Lylat Wars or even Starwing (Star Fox's) on the disc as with their current trend of putting old versions of the games with the new versions (Maybe they are planning something like this for the DS? We can only hope), or at least give the player the chance to use different characters for story mode.

Overall, if your a fan of this series it's worth a try, but for the lifespan of the game you may wish to consider renting this as you'll finish the story mode very quickly, but the overall concept of the game is a good step forward for the series and has reasonable replay value with the chance to do missions again to get higher scores.
A step forward from Lylat Wars, and the story isn't rushed at the end like in Adventures. It just needs about 5 more missions and perhaps the much demanded Co-Op mode to make this game an absolute essential.

Too short
This game is a good fun blast but falls short of classic status due to the fact that it takes about 3 hours to complete. You can of course replay it, and I have done as apart from the length the game is exceptional fun.
As I enjoyed this game so much I found it easy to forgive the shortness and have now completed it 5 times (no kidding!!!) and am still not bored. But if the retro linear design of the past fox games didn't seem awesome then you won't want to get it- as it's so short it's only worth getting if you really like starfox or it is in a sale- which this game never is from what I have seen.
One more thing though- the multiplayer is brilliant, it may not be xbox live but it is tremendous fun with 3 mates and I reckon it is better than the timesplitters multiplayer.

well...this is different!
I only recently bought a gamecube becouse two of my best friends had one, and there were alot of games that I liked that were only available on gamecube. So for christmas I got a Gamecube and it came with a game called starfox adventures, I realy liked the game and when I heard that the new one was out I borrowed it off my friend. After the first mission I was disapointed and just switched it off. You see on the first one there was lots of skill and you got to kick some but with a scraggy old stick,but it was fun becouse there were different tricks, and you got some space shooting,and there was the occasional puzzle here and there as well. So I thought that all the way through it was only in a space ship, but after a while I had nothing to do and I just had a quick go at mission two and realised that most of the game was on the ground, blowing hings up! It's a wierd change, but its certainly a good one! Unfortunatly it isnt very long, there are only about eleven missions. But after that, the multi-player mode is excellent! If you play it long enough (and believe me I have been playing all the time with my omboy sister!)then you can earn new characters and weapons, and arenas! So if you liked starfox adventures for the puzzles then don't buy it. But if you liked starfox adventures for the action, THEN GET OUT THERE AND BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!