Great comeback for team Star Fox
User Rating: 8.9 | Star Fox Command DS
After being a little disappointed with Star Fox Assault, I was wondering if they could put back the franchise on the right track. Well, they did ! Star Fox Command is really good. It's closely follows the storyline of the previous games. The gameplay is greatly done, most everything is done with the stylus on the touch screen, except for firing laser, which is done with any other buttons (A,B,X,Y,L,R, even the control pad!) That's really good because if you're right-handed, you hold the stylus with your right hand while firing with the control pad, if you're left-handed, you fire with A B X or Y. The touch screen is composed of the map that shows the enemies and all the other stuff that is on the battle field. The levels are on the same planets as the ones in SF64, but you don't fly trough them; you have some tactics to do before engaging battle with the enemies.
The graphics are good, but sometimes the enemies are pieces of metal, you can't really know what it is, but hey, you just shoot it down! That's the point of the game no ?
The sounds are ok, but the voices really get on my nerves ! The music is also on the "ok" line.
In overall, I really liked the game. The story mode is not really long (not even 10 missions) but there are 9 endings to unlock, so you have to play the game again with different paths which makes the game last a lot longer.
Another point that I really liked, was the possibility to play with every characters, not only Fox. And what I mean with "every characters" is really EVERYBODY ! Fox, Falco, Slippy, Krystal, even Bill !!! And there are some new faces like Amanda who is actually..... nah, I won't say it !
Play the game and you'll see ! It's worth it !