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Star Fox Command: Star Fox Adventures
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This time around, though, Nintendo contracted Namco to be the new home of Star Fox, and Namco started working on the newest chapter in Star Fox history. Since Nintendo had won the rights to the Star Fox Adventures characters, Namco was able to continue down the path that Rare had begun in Star Fox Adventures, including being able to use Krystal. This caused a setback in the development time and the game was pushed back by at least a year. The new game was to be a story-driven shooter that had ground-based missions thrown into the game's structure and design.
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Following the events of Star Fox Assault, the DS title finds the Star Fox team disbanded as the threat posed by Andross passes with his demise. Peppy has replaced his grandfather as General of the Cornerian Army; Slippy finds amphibian love on a distant planet; Falco drifts through the galaxy as a rogue mercenary; whilst new recruit, co-star of Star Fox Adventures and love interest to Fox, Krystal, has been forced to leave because of McCloud's increasing concerns over her safety. Declared a forbidden zone and put under the watch of the Cornerian Army since the defeat of Andross, the hostile planet of Venom is once again the source of trouble when a mysterious army rises from its toxic seas. Controlled by a leader known as Anglar, the unexpected attack once again throws the Lylat system into crisis as Fox prepares to combat the threat on his own.
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Star Fox is a series of video games started by Nintendo in 1993. It is a very successful series, continuing to draw an avid fan base from most Nintendo gamers to this day. A number of furs claim to have been drawn into the fandom because of this game series, and one instance - Star Fox Adventures - won the 2002 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Game.
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In Star Fox Adventures, the series took a very different turn in gameplay and style. Originally meant to be an entirely different game entitled Dinosaur Planet, the series was later branded with the Star Fox logo and given the Star Fox treatment of flying missions and the series' trademark characters. However, instead of a basic rail shooter that was common with its predecessors, Adventures was much more of an action-adventure game, similar in genre to the legendary Legend of Zelda series. The game received generally positive reviews, regarless of its radical departure from its predecessors.
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In the graphical position, Star Fox Adventures was a masterpiece. The Rare team managed to pull off "fur shading" which let characters have a colored wire frame fur that would react to the environment around them, such as sway in the wind and move their faces and tails, something which Microsoft claimed that only Xbox could do and was eventually done on the Xbox in the remake of Bad Fur Day, Conker: Live and Reloaded. It added a tremendous degree of realism and naturalness to the game that no other game of the time could manage. The cinematic scenes allowed the story to be fleshed out and were choreographed with the animators and musicians to create a movie-like level of quality and depth.
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Star Fox was a smash hit for Super NES, a work of technological wizardry that just happened to be backed up by a genuinely fun on-rails space shooter and a bizarre cartoon animal theme. Unfortunately, it's proved to be a particularly elusive bit of lightning; Nintendo has been chasing after it for years, bottle in hand, without much luck. The promising SNES sequel was buried before launch; the N64 game was mostly notable for its multiplayer; and the less said about Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox: Assault the better for everyone involved.
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