Star Fox
Reviewed by Bryan Carter
Prep your SNES for the first great shooter game, Star Fox. Your play
as the young, mercenary pilot Fox McCloud and his team of Arwing pilots
Peppy Hare, Falco Lombardi, and Slippy Toad. The story is that General
Pepper, the leader of the Cornerian Army, a defense force in the distant
Lylat system had discovered that the evil, scientist Andross had been
collaborating crimes as he tried to conquer the Lylat system. General
Pepper had confined him the the barren and desolate Planet Venom.
Now he has come again to invade the Lylat system and General Pepper
has called the Star Fox team in to do the job and save their Galaxy.
In Star Fox, the producers for once had actually designed it so that
your fellow pilots help you, and get in trouble in real-time battle,
and made different courses to take to knock down the evil Andross
in their own difficulty levels as the next is much harder than the last.
Graphics: 7 out of 10
The graphics in Star Fox are constructed quite good for the SNES, as
they are polygonal figures. The real problem is that the characters
are to blockie figured at most points, another defect is that sometimes,
the graphics are too indistinct to tell if the enemy is just in the back
ground, or in the path of flight. The colors are made good, but the enemies
color schemes stay to usually blue, gray, orange, yellow, white and red.
There are no outrageously colored enemies. The colors are also not
mixed with the exception of one area (Andross Battle-Backround).
Music and Sound: 9 out of 10
This is one of the first games I have seen on the SNES where there
are some voices! Although the sound like robots, it's a great change
from just plain written text all the time. Also, you can notice that
when your allies speak, they make there own unique sound. The Music
is superb in my books as the boss theme is suspenseful and the stage
themes are ready to get your mind to race in some points, and the use
of the FX sound chip makes the music more bold.
Game Challenge: 10 out of 10
Star Fox as I said earlier, has different difficulties as many games do,
but the different difficulty levels include different courses and levels
you must take. The level lay out is linear as you fly in a straight path
most of the time, but there are many obstacles and enemies that will
stop you. The different courses pose to be very difficult (Out of three
courses, three being the hardest, one being the easiest) the jumps are
quite big in difficulty.
Overall: 9 out of 10
Star Fox is a great game and deserves a place on any ones self, and is
great to play over again and again to see if you beat the high score, as
the game ceases to become boring, and the overall idea is great, but has
little depth. In the end, the game is magnificent.