A few more details about the upcoming Star Fox 64 3D for Nintendo 3DS have emerged from a Japanese retailer, specifically about the game's multiplayer mode. Unfortunately, it won't be playable online, but there will be local four-player versus battles and the game will use Download Play so your friends won't need their own cartridges. (Those cheapskates!)
The retailer also says that players will be able to take photos of themselves that will show up above ships in-game, similar to the functionality used in Ridge Racer 3D.
Star Fox 64 3D is still set for a July 14 release in Japan. No date has been announced for its North American arrival.
According to the notes of a financial results briefing presented today by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the upcoming remake of Star Fox 64 for the 3DS will make use of the console's gyroscope, allowing players to tilt the handheld to control Fox's Arwing as it explores 3D space. It sounds neat, but there's one big drawback: tilting the 3DS while playing totally kills the 3D effect.
We didn't get to use the gyro controls when we played the game last year at E3 but, of course, back then the official features weren't yet announced. Star Fox 64 3D is due out in Japan on July 14, so soon after that we'll be able to see just how precisely we can fly by tilting the 3DS around. Spoiler: there will no doubt be barrel rolls involved.
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Star Fox 64 was one of the Nintendo 64's best video games. It was a fantastic on-rails shooter, it introduced rumble to Nintendo console gaming and it gave the world one of the best pieces of advice ever delivered by software: "Do a barrel roll." More »
It's looking to be a fairly delightful summer for folks waiting on pins and needles for renovated versions of Nintendo 64 classics on the 3DS. Just one day after announcing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's June 19 release date, Nintendo's uploaded a Japanese launch date for Star Fox 64 3D to the game's official site: The bestial flight combat simulator is scheduled to hit Japanese store shelves July 14.
We've got our fingers crossed that Star Fox's journey to North America will be as speedy as Ocarina of Time's (which is coming out in Japan just three days before releasing in the U.S.). Is that wishful thinking? Perhaps. But hey, if we've gotta wish on something, we may as well wish upon a Star!
Star Fox got unfocused. The franchise knew exactly what it was about for its first few installments-- flight action, on rails, in 3D-- and it was a technical marvel in its SNES debut, blowing away gamers' expectations for what a 16-bit system could do in 1993. Then it introduced the concept of force feedback by shipping its sequel with the N64 Rumble Pak in 1997. Star Fox was an important brand, a name used to push Nintendo-- and the entire industry-- forward...
The Nintendo 3DS is giving Shigeru Miyamoto the opportunity to fulfill a wish: remake Star Fox 64. In the newest installment of Iwata Asks, Nintendo president and CEO Saturo Iwata sat down with Miyamoto to talk about the two upcoming N64 remakes for the 3DS Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64. According to Miyamoto, not only has enough time passed to make the remakes relevant, but the hardware has finally caught up to his ambition for an update...
If you've seen The Fantastic Mr. Fox, then you're probably going to find this College Humor video entertaining -- if not, well, there isn't much we can say. Have you ever wanted to see Star Fox play a banjo? It's totally in there.
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There's a new old Star Fox coming to the Nintendo 3DS, a remake of the Nintendo 64 classic that, according to Nintendo, "ups the Star Fox mania" with a pair of new features, seemingly designed for Star Fox maniacs. More »
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Star Fox 64 3D is one of the few playable titles out of the oodles of announced 3DS projects on display at Nintendo's E3 booth. It's a short demo of the classic N64 game's first level, fading out after a few seconds of the boss battle.
The 3DS version of Star Fox 64 is instantly familiar to players of the original. The demo opens as you cruise over a short stretch of ocean (a shortened version of the original level's intro), soaring through a ravine into "Corneria City." The place is an obstacle course, the vision of some insane architect, and I crashed and collided with the archways and tumbling towers my first time through, as my eyes drifted down to the touch screen, which displayed the control layout.
