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Star Fox 64 (Nintendo 64)

The game's fifteen missions link together in a number of possible paths to your final objective: a show-down on Venom, the home planet of the interplanetary tyrant, Andross. Throughout your adventure, you'll have to accomplish challenging objectives in order to reach and conquer every mission. There are two different mission modes in the game; 3-D scroll and all-range. A 3-D scroll mission thrusts you forward into the conflict, and requires intense, split-second reactions. Multiple paths are possible through these scrolling missions, depending on the choices you make. All-range mode missions enable you to maneuver in full 360-degrees, and to put your Arwing through radical combat maneuvers like loop-the-loops and high energy turns. [Nintendo]

Nintendo
Flight Action
Players: 4
K-A (Kids to Adult)
Developer: Nintendo
Released June 1, 1997

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

88 / 100

Critic Reviews

100	GamePro Furious flying, controller-melting action, gorgeous graphics, and weird adversaries launch StarFox 64 into the stratosphere.
95	Nintendophiles It features nice graphics, wonderful sound, addictive gameplay, and a lot of replay value.
91	Electronic Gaming Monthly A very pretty reprise of the original Star Fox story, but with new stuff. [Jan 2004, p.189]
90	Hot Games Every target is superbly animated and detailed - walker droids walk with consummate ease, meteors float around ominously, end of level bosses look as imposing as they're supposed to...it's all great.
90	All Game Guide Notable for its use of real-time speech during the action
90	Gaming Age Starfox 64, while being a solid title, has one major flaw, length. Although there are separate paths, the game still isn't long enough. Within an hour of booting it, I finished the game, within the next half hour, I completed one of the alternate paths, etc.
90	Game Critics Pure harmony. Its minor flaws are more than proportionally corrected by its many great features and almost all of the elements (story, graphics, gameplay) come together to form one of the most artistically cohesive videogames in recent times.
90	Nintendojo The replay value on Starfox64 is pretty much endless, unless you consider the route difficulties and level tasks terrible game design.
87	IGN Takes the never-say-die shooter genre to new levels of complexity, sleek design, and gameplay control. StarFox 64 represents the next leap in the evolution of Nintendo games.
85	GameShark The only thing that really kept StarFox 64 from taking off was its lack of difficulty. The game was insanely easy, almost to the point of amazement.
85	Electric Playground There's no question that Miyamoto has raised the bar on arcade-style 3D space shooters once again.
83	GameSpot Star Fox 64 is the kind of game you will spend many sleepless nights with - even after you finish. An instant N64 classic.
83	Game Revolution Several interesting twists on the classic arcade shooter bring this game up a few notches.
81	TotalGames.net While 32-bit consoles have seen a drift back to the old 2-D scrolling shoot-'em-ups, Star Fox updates the format for the 21st century. It's a stunning, state-of-the-art space opera.
80	Nintendorks It's the shoot 'em up of shoot 'em ups. Star Fox 64 shouldn't be seen as a sequel to the SNES Star Fox, however. It's more of a director's cut to an old, great film.
70	Games Domain This game surpasses the 16 bit original in more ways than graphics. Overall, a strong game with some serious flaws.

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