Star Fox Adventures (GameCube)

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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.

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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

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Dinosaurs
• Animals: Foxes
• Animals: Frogs
• Nintendo Player's Choice releases
• Star Fox series

User Reviews

Zelda in the Star Fox universe	Iggi (14550)
Loads of FUN!!	Oblio (108)
A fabulous Zelda-like Star Fox RPG!	Dark Cloud (35)
A beautiful and fun adventure	WWWWolf (453)	unrated
Starfox meets Zelda, but not quite so epic.	EddyB43 (3547)	unrated
What do you get if you add Banjo-Kazooie, Legend Of Zelda and Lylat Wars? The answer, Star Fox Adventures	knuckles-rox (11)
What do you get if you add starfox, Zelda, starwars, and talking dinosaurs, this load of stinking tripe.	Garland (14)

Critic Reviews

Entertainment Weekly	Sep 27, 2002	100 out of 100	100
Game Freaks 365	2002	9.3 out of 10	93
IGN	Sep 23, 2002	9 out of 10	90
64 Power / big.N / N Games	Nov, 2002	87 out of 100	87
Nintendo Difference	Dec 06, 2002	17 out of 20	85
GameSpot	Sep 25, 2002	8.3 out of 10	83
GameSpy	Sep 25, 2002	82 out of 100	82
contactmusic.com	Dec 05, 2002	8 out of 10	80
Deaf Gamers	2002	7 out of 10	70
Super Play (Sweden)	Nov, 2002	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

• 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

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