Star Fox Adventures

Development

Star Fox Adventures started as a non-Star Fox game for Nintendo 64 called Dinosaur Planet. It had apparently got pretty far in development with gameplay clips released to the press. Shigeru Miyamoto notice the similarity between the anthropomorphic animal designs being used for the main characters and the Star Fox Characters and decided the game should be retooled as a Star Fox game and moved to Nintendo's new system: the GameCube. The game was retitled Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet, but before release, it was changed to merely Star Fox Adventures.

Rare

The last game developed by Rare Ltd. for the Nintendo GameCube. On the day of the game's release, it was announced that Nintendo sold its stock in the company back to Rare, which was immediately sold back out to Microsoft. Several games previously under development for the Nintendo GameCube, including Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo: Elements of Power were redeveloped as Xbox 360 titles.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2002– Biggest Console Disappointment of the Year
  • 2002 – #3 Best GameCube Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)
• GameSpy
  • 2002 – Good Hair Day Award (GameCube)

Information also contributed by Ace of Sevens, Evil Ryu and Tiago Jacques