Starfox - He\'s Back (With horrible voice acting?????)
Star Fox: Assault got a lot of hype before it was released, for one because a many people (including myself) were a bit disappointed with Star Fox Adventures\' lack of the space rail ship shooting that we got from the first 2( 3 counting SF2) games, and two, because it was being developed by Namco.
Now to the review part. I started the game, when I noticed the music was really scratchy, obviously meant only for surround sound. But then I realized, its not the game, it\'s the GOD-AWFUL voice acting. I mean, for Christ\'s sake, Slippy sounds like a friggen girl!? But fortunately, the games cool opening graphics made up for it. There is a multiplayer mode, and a secret unlockable arcade game, along with the single player mode. There are 2 modes for single player, story and survivor. Story is the regular play through the missions mode and Survivor is a mode giving you 2 lives and seeing how long you can last and get the highest score.
Onto the gameplay. The game starts, showing off the GC\'s great graphics capabilities (bout TIME), the game plays pretty much like the first 2, up down left right, shoot, bombs, and the charge up from SF64. The boss modes are also very retro and appealing to the hardcore SF, especially the first one. But one of the coolest things new here in SF:A is the ability to get out of your Arwing and switch between vehicles, even fight missions on foot! (A la the unlockable on foot multiplayer in SF64) Sadly, you can only do this on about 3 or 4 levels. But what\'s even more depressing is the fact that the game only has 10 levels... Mind you it does have a somewhat large amount of multiplayer unlockables, but this is EXCEEDINGLY little compared to the first 2. A grievous mistake which definitely disappointed many.
As well, the story (which I won\'t divulge here for spoiler purposes) seems a little thrown together, with a bit more structuring and plot development needed, but otherwise interesting.
Overall I would have to give this a 6/10.
A good try, but just not measuring up to the standards set by its predecessors.