Star Fox Assault is 3D scrolling shooter and third person shooter video game shooter created by Namco and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the fourth installment to the Star Fox franchise. It was released on February 14, 2005 in North America. The game is set after the events after Star Fox Adventures and follows Fox Mc Cloud and his friends attempting save the Lylat System from the enemy insect beings called Apariods.
Gameplay
The game is divided in to three types, where the player can fly the Arwing spacecraft, drive the land master tank or go on foot this is also available in multiplayer however there are certain maps you can or can’t use the Arwing or the Land Master.
Story
After the evil monkey scientist Andross was defeated for the second time his nephew Andrew Onkinny a former Star Wolf team member took over as leader of the venomian empire. Knowing the threat that Andrew poses, General Pepper hires a mercenary team named Star Fox which consist of Fox Mc Cloud as the leader, Slippy Toad as the Mechanic, Falco Lombardi as the ace pilot, Krystal the newest member of the team serves as a telepath, Peppy Hare as a mentor for the team and ROB 64 as tactical support to assist him and the Conerian military to battle Onkinny and his forces around the orbit of Fortuna. After cornering the appointed emperor he was killed by an insect like creature that also attacked Star Fox after defeating the unknown creature Fox retrieved it core memory. Fox gives the core memory to Slippy’s father Benito who is the head of Cornerian military research program and explains the creature that killed Onkinny and attacked Fox and his team is called an Apariod and it destroyed a patrolling Cornerian fleet Seventeen years ago .To further this research this Benito asks Fox and his team to recover a completed version of the core memory. After being lured by a false distress signal, the Star Fox Team were deceived by a free lance bounty hunter named Pigma Dengar who steals the core memory and wants to sell it to the Highest bidder. Star Fox encounters Star Wolf and they tell Fox of Pigma’s location when encounter Pigma again he was infected with the Apariods Fox destroys him and retrieves the second core memory and sends it to Benito.
While Star Fox destroys the Apariods on Sauria, the Apariords invaded Corneria and infected General Pepper Star Fox wipes out the insect army with the help from Star Wolf. After Researching the core memory Benito discovers the location of the Aparoids and found out they are weak to apoptosis and makes a Program which if fired correctly at the Apariod Queen all of the Apariods will self destruct. Fox and his team travel to the Aparoid Home World only to discover the planet has a regenerative shield. Peppy and Rob 64 crashed in to the shield with the Great Fox after being infected by the aparoids giving Star Fox and Star Wolf an opening to the planet’s core. They reached to the core and the Queen tries to convince Fox to join her but fails. Fox fires the program in the queen causing all of the Aparoids on the planet and the planet itself to self destruct and the game ends.
Reception
The game received average reviews Ign giving it a 7 out of 10 and Metacritic giving the game a 71 out of 100.
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