- Nintendo don’t usually drop the ball when it comes to sequels, but after the awful Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox Assault, the crew of the Great Fox have had a real struggle to remain relevant in the last few years
- This new game though is by some of the same people behind the SNES original and the first successful attempt to drag the series back to its roots
- The original Star Fox game was the closest any one has ever got to transposing the 2D gameplay of old school shoot ‘em-ups such as R-Type into 3D
- As such all the levels were on-the-rails with tightly scripted enemy formations and set pieces
- In this game though most of the missions allow you to fly in any direction (similar to all-range mode from Lylat Wars), which will still annoy fans – although at least all the action is restricted to your spacecraft for the first time in several sequels
