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Platform
Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
80
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.7
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

Fox McCloud returns and is given a different mission than he is normally used to. At the far edge of the Lylat system, an evil army, led by General Scales, is destroying the world of Dinosaur Planet, rendering all its inhabitants helpless. It is now up to Fox McCloud and his team to save the planet and destroy the evil army.

Star Fox Adventures breaks away from the previous games in the series, being an action game with light puzzle-solving elements, similar to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. You control Fox McCloud as he adventures through Dinosaur Planet, but at the beginning, you control the female fox Krystal, whom McCloud must later rescue. There are missions where you use your trusty Arwing craft, but the majority of the game takes place on foot.

Helping you throughout your adventure are your trusty sidekicks; Peppy, Slippy, and ROB the Robot, who guide and give you mission briefings. To aid Fox throughout the game, a variety of weapons and magical items are available from blasters to grenades to magic staffs. You may also purchase items with "scarabs", the game's currency. Throughout the game you may partake in various mini-games, which are found at different stores.

Alternate Titles

  • "SFA" -- Common abbreviation
  • "Dinosaur Planet" -- Working title
  • "スターフォックスアドベンチャー" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Loads of FUN!! Oblio (109) 4.14 Stars4.14 Stars4.14 Stars4.14 Stars4.14 Stars
A fabulous Zelda-like Star Fox RPG! Dark Cloud (35) 4.43 Stars4.43 Stars4.43 Stars4.43 Stars4.43 Stars
A beautiful and fun adventure WWWWolf (422) unrated
Starfox meets Zelda, but not quite so epic. EddyB43 (3526) unrated
What do you get if you add Banjo-Kazooie, Legend Of Zelda and Lylat Wars? The answer, Star Fox Adventures knuckles-rox (11) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
What do you get if you add starfox, Zelda, starwars, and talking dinosaurs, this load of stinking tripe. Garland (14) 2.29 Stars2.29 Stars2.29 Stars2.29 Stars2.29 Stars

The Press Says

Level Mar, 2003 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
Game Freaks 365 2002 9.3 out of 10 93
Jeuxvideo.com Nov 14, 2002 18 out of 20 90
IGN Sep 23, 2002 9 out of 10 90
Peliplaneetta.net Dec 10, 2002 84 out of 100 84
Quebec Gamers Oct 28, 2003 8.3 out of 10 83
GameSpy Sep 25, 2002 82 out of 100 82
Power Unlimited Dec, 2002 79 out of 100 79
Games TM Dec, 2002 7 out of 10 70
Gamereactor (Sweden) May 08, 2003 7 out of 10 70

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Trivia

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

  • GameSpy
    • 2002 – Good Hair Day Award (GameCube)
Information also contributed by Ace of Sevens, Evil Ryu and Tiago Jacques


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by JPaterson Bronze Star Contributing Member (9098) on Sep 25, 2002.
 

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