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Who here plays these games?

The first one came out for the Super Nintendo (SNES) in 1993 as Star Fox in America and Japan and as Starwing in Europe and Germany.



It was the first game to use 3D polygons.

It was later planned to make Star Fox 2 but it was canceled to make way for Star Fox 64.



Star Fox 64 came out for the Nintendo 64 (N64) in 1998. This game was also called Lylat Wars.



Then some time after the release of Star Fox 64, Rare started to work on a N64 game called Dinosaur Planet.




But when the Nintendo Game Cube came out and some other events took place, the game changed from Dinosaur Planet for the N64 to Star Fox Adventures for the NGC. It came out in 2002.




See a resemblance?

Then another title came out for the NGC. It was Star Fox Assault released in 2005.



It doesn't stop there! At this year's E3, Nintendo announced a new Star Fox game for the Nintendo DS. Star Fox Command (Star Fox DS).



Okay, I've got some detail for this game.


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Star Fox: Command is for the DS and was released in Japan on August 3, 2006 and will be available in the states on August 28, 2006. There is no word when the game goes to Europe.

Star Fox: Command is the fifth installment to the Star Fox franchise and the first to be on a handheld system.

Star Fox: Command has and one player story mode and will support multiplayer by LAN and WiFi.


Single Player

In the story mode a race of fish-like beings called the Anglors have appeared from the acidic oceans of planet Venom and have spread into the rest of the Lylat System, theorizing the planets and the inhabitants. The Star Fox Team has separated and now it’s only the leader, Fox McCloud, and the service robot, ROB. The story, like in Star Fox 64, will branch out and feature multiple endings. Character will join and leave the Star Fox Team depending on the path the player decides to take the story.

Each path will have a number of missions to complete (collectively, the game will feature 30+ missions). Each mission brings the player to an overhead map of the current area. The Great Fox flies onscreen and any current teammates are dispatched as well. Each mission requires the player to manipulate their teammates by drawing their flight paths on the touch screen. Enemy groups and bases are present on the map as well so the idea is to protect Great Fox by intersecting the enemy groups and eliminating them while capturing bases. The Great Fox is not, by all means, defenseless. It can use the missile power ups that are picked up. In some missions the enemy will be hiding in a fog of war, which you can search through with the stylus at the beginning of each turn.

When a teammate’s ship gets contact with a base or enemy group(s) the game switches into 360º free flying area or “all rang mode” found in Star Fox 2 and Star Fox 64. The controls for this mode are mapped for the main use coming from the stylus. Standard stylus movement is used to control the pitch and yaw movement of the ship, double tapping on the top half of the screen is the boost, double tapping the bottom half of the screen is the break, quick right and left movements is the barrel roll, loops and U-turns are on screen buttons, bombs are drag and drop from a bank to the radar on the touch screen, and the D-pad, face buttons (A,B,X,Y), and shoulder buttons are mapped to fire the laser cannon. Each battle has a time limit and a number of stars to collect that are hidden within a specific type of enemy. Normally, once you meet the star limit the battle ends and the enemy group is destroyed but bases have the extra requirement of destroying the enemy base after the stars are collected. Time extend power ups are available if the player wants to extra points before the last star is collected.

The in-game characters will speak before each mission, on the overhead map, and during battles. Their voices are not real voices but instead they will be heard speaking like the characters in Animal Crossing. Star Fox Command will a unique feature of allowing the player to record their own voice and have the game filter it and use that as the in-game characters’ voice.


Multiplayer by LAN

Multiplayer by WiFi

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I apologies if the above information is difficult to read.

Star Fox Command Update 8/22/06

FINAL 3 DAYS!!!

Well, It's the final four days until the release of the first handheld Star Fox title, Star Fox Command. I, like many other Star Fox fans, can hardly contain myself.

No game play elements have been reviled to my eye, so, we'll have to wait.

However, the US place holder website has been updated to have all four videos. Go check them out! We can expect the full website in a few short days.

IGN has some English screen shots and videos.


Star Fox Command Update 8/25/06

Not much today.

In IGN's video it shows that Ash's name isn't Ash. His real name is Dash. It seems that the first translation was faulty, so we got the name Ash.

The Nintendo WiFi website has been updated to host the Star Fox Command gameing HUB.


Star Fox Command Update 8/26/06




Oops... I guess the 2D storyboards slipped my mind. Thank you, Suka.

Record able voices are true but it won't replace the gibberish that the characters speak in. It works like a filter; converting your voice to gibberish so that it doesn't sound so random.

There is a small part of the commercial on Youtube...
Here it is!!!



Anyways, ING, Gamespot, and Nintendo Power have all reviewed Star Fox Command. I have the scores.

Nintendo Power: 9.5 out of 10
IGN: 8 to 8.5 (8.1) out of 10
Gamespot: 7.5 out of 10


Okay, I have finally received in use a comfortable amount of information to talk about the multiplayer for the game.

-Star Fox Command multiplayer will support up to 6 players on LAN and up to 4 on WiFi Connection.

-For all modes of play, players will only be able to play as Fox and his FireFox Arwing.

-Very weak on support information: Star Fox Command will only have download play. It is assumed that you can play multicard; which will be the same game play as download play just no downloading time.

-Some points are weak on support information: Only one game mode: Battle Royal. Each game will have three rounds. The winner of the game is decided by who wins the most rounds. Rounds are won by being the player with the most stars. Stars are collected by shooting down your opponents, but they are not given to you. Instead it will be dropped where the ship was destroyed and you have to go get it. This leaves area open for other opponents to steal your star. Levels are randomly chosen at the star of each round.

Star Fox Command Update 8/27/06

The Star Fox Command website is LIVE!!!

Go a head and take a look at the whole website... or just a part of it but I suggest you look at the multiplayer part if it. That's some fast pace multiplayer action!!

This might be the last update before the release date. Once I get the game, which will be on Tuesday... or Monday if things goes well at Game Stop, and I play it a while I will put up me review and a small getting started guide.

"Get DS and stylus ready and scream for you favorite fox pilot!"



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Anything below this point hes yet to be filtered and organized

!!Important!!

The following information has been gathered from primary and secondary sources. Some of the information might be confirmed while the rest may be just rumors.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Sfcboxart.jpg/668px-Sfcboxart.jpg

Key
Laser: the type of laser the ship will fire.
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Bombs: the number of bombs the ship can carry at one time
Shield*: how good shield is (unknown if it’s health or defense)
Boost*: how long the boost bar is.

*These states are in a bar. I typed how much of the bar is filled.

Information from the Japanese Star Fox Command Website. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/asfj/index.html

Japanese to English translation done by some members on the N-sider forums at http://www.nintendo.com/home

Fox McCloud--Fire Fox (also known as Arwing II)
Slippy Toad--Bullfrog
Falco Lombardi--Sky Claw
*Krystal (Star Fox pilot)--Cloud Runner
Lucy Hare--Sky Bunny
Amanda--Tadpole
Katt Monroe--unkown (guess: Kitty Paw or Cat's Paw)
Wolf O'Donnell--Wolfen
Leon Powalski--Rainbow Delta
Panther Caroso--Black Rose
Ash Bowman--unknown (no guess)
Bill Gray--unknown (guess: Katinan Fighter)
*Krystal (Cornerian pilot)--unknown (guess: Cornerian Fighter)
James McCloud--Arwing
Peppy Hare--Arwing

*Same character

A WiFi match

The First Mission

A mission with Wolf

A quick overview of the characters (last character still missing)


This last thing is a real treat. It's Star Fox Command's Star Wolf theme.
Star Wolf theme

If you would like to know...I played and beat Starfox 2....it was an awesome game. Too too short (beat it in 15 minutes yes it was the whole game) And well it was fun..the mech Arwing was a good idea too..(cannot wait for Starfox DS)

Ive played and beaten every starfox game yet .

How the heck did you get your hands on Star Fox 2?!

Wait, wait, don't answer that. I have a feeling on where that's going.

Two things I just found out!

-Star Fox 64 was also called Lylat Wars

and

-The blue fox in the Dinosaur Planet picture is Krystal. Her name was never changed from the move to NGC and Star Fox. The other fox in the game was Sabre but he was changed to Fox McCloud.

The only Star Fox game that I have is the N64 one. I dunno, I find it addicting. ^^ Even though the graphics aren't as good as the newer ones, I still think that it's the best game from the series. I've taken a look at the newer ones, but they aren't very appealing in my opinion.

I agree. But still... you should give the newer one a try.

That said, If you like the Star Fox franchise overall, I think that you would like the new games.

Ive played adventures, star Fox 64, and assult

Same here as well. Just grab a bunch of friends and kill each other in multiplayer! It's actualy tons of fun!

Oh, yeah! Those were the days.

Sigh... Now everybody plays on the newer systems and there's no time for the classics like N64 or the NES.
It's sad really.

I love the classics!

The classics are awesome...I just wish the Final Copy of Starfox 2 I got had the coop they were planning...that would've been a blast.

The only games I've played of the Star Fox series are the SNes and the N46 one...

Star Fox is AWSOME.

I love these games.

I love Starfox.

Even though I do enjoy the games, I feel Adventures and Assualt could've been better. One thing they could've done to Adventures was add in more enemies and not have the fighting limit to one on one. They also could've made it a little longer. Besides of just Fire and Air?(Been awhile since I played it), they could've had Earth and Water as well. As for Assualt, I feel it lacks replay value and the graphics probably could've been a little better. The other thing they could've done was get rid of that sequences between levels, and maybe added in a better dog fight with Wolf.

You know what would make for an interesing Star Fox game? If Fox finds out his dad, James McCloud, was behind Andross.

I don't see how he could be behind Andross.

James McCloud is dead. James is a spirit in Star Fox 64 who helps his son get out of the exploding inferno at the end of the game. Then, once Fox is safe James spirit disappears.

Its a fun game! ^^

It never was mentioned in the game that James was killed, just his fate, so Fox just assumed he's dead. And if James was dead, why did he show up in Assualt? If that aploid queen thing could only take over living things, it must be really strong if it could take over something that's dead.