bit-tech Shopping: Nintendo Star Fox Assault for GameCube

Rating: 6

Time with product: 3 Days

Strengths: Great graphics with good sound. Space battles are entertaining.

Weaknesses: Hard to control t times, short game (only 10 missions), multiplayer sucks

Summary: This is an action adventure game like other Star Fox games. You are Fox and you get three partners that help you with your missions. Basically, you just shoot down enemies you see. Space combat are more interesting. Although sometimes it might be difficult to control your ship, it's fun. There are different guns in the game (like 6).I'd recommend this game to Star Fox lovers and people who like action adventure games. You search around for your targets and destroy them.I don't recommend this game who are not interested in this game genre as this game can be boring for you. This game is kind of challenging, especially space battles. You should pick up another game.

Rating: 4

Time with product: 1 Year

Strengths: Flight missions are enjoyable as a Starfox staple

Weaknesses: Land missions are awkward

Summary: Starfox was always meant to be in the skies. Something to do with its namesake. Namco ran with the license, trying to break it out of that mold, to somewhat less than perfect results. While the flying missions retain the fun of classic Starfox that we've known since the SNES days, the on-foot missions, as in Starfox Adventures, leaves us a bit wanting. There's nothing really wrong with them, but they certainly don't add anything to the game.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 2 Years

Strengths: Flight Parts

Weaknesses: Ground Parts, Short

Summary: Star Fox Assault is a combination of the air battles that are the same idea as Star Fox 64 and ground parts that play out like a 3rd person shooter. The air battles are good as they play pretty much dead on like air battles in the previous Star Fox games most noteably like Star Fox 64 but the ground battles don't play as well as it can be tough to lock on to enemies and turning is kind of slow for your character. The single player game is fairly short at only a few hours to play though and while you have incentive to play though again to get a higher score, medals if you do well enough and higher difficulties to play though the levels at it would have been nice to have a longer single player game. The game also has split screen multiplayer for 2-4 players but it's fairly simple and is kind of an extra added after tough more so then anything such as the case was with the multiplayer mode in a lot of N64 games. I would recommend Star Fox Assault still to fans of the Star Fox series as while the game is short and the ground battles could have been better the air parts are still done up really well.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 1

Strengths: The closest thing to classic Star Fox action in recent years, graphics and replay value are pretty strong.

Weaknesses: Non-flying missions feel awkward and out of place

Summary: Star Fox Assault is the latest addition to the Star Fox franchise, and while it comes closest to regaining the status of the older games, it still has some parts that shouldn't be a part of this game. The main feature, the aerial space combat, is intact and well-done, but the ground-based gameplay feels generic and out-of-place in this game. It's still a good choice for anyone looking for a 3D sci-fi shooter, but it would have been better for the developers to focus on the essence of the Star Fox series instead of adding unneeded run-and-gun missions.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 20

Strengths: Good music, graphics, designs

Weaknesses: You may hate the ground missions

Summary: I'll say this now, you may love or hate the ground missions. It's not they're bad, it's just that this game is Star Fox and you would expect to use the Arwing, Landmaster, etc. throughout the game. If you can find this at a good price, then go ahead and pick it up.