Star Fox: Assault
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Toshiyuki Nakanishi Hideki Okazaki Yutaka Yoshida |
| Producer(s) | Tsuyoshi Kobayashi Shigeru Miyamoto Takaya Imamura |
| Artist(s) | Yoshihiko Arawi |
| Writer(s) | Yoshihiko Arawi Ayumu Shindo Kazuya Hatazawa |
| Composer(s) | Yoshie Arakawa Yoshinori Kawamoto |
| Series | Star Fox |
| Platform(s) | GameCube |
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| Genre(s) | Rail shooter, third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 71% |
| Metacritic | 67/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 7.33/10 |
| GameSpot | 7.3/10 |
| IGN | 7.0/10 |
| Play Magazine | 8/10 |
| Thunderbolt | 9/10 |
Star Fox: Assault (スターフォックス アサルト Sutā Fokkusu Asaruto?) is a 3D scrolling shooter and third-person shooter video game developed by Namco and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the fourth released title in the Star Fox series. It was released on February 15, 2005 in North America, on February 24, 2005 in Japan, on April 29, 2005 in Europe, and on June 16, 2005 in Australia. The game was available at Blockbuster and Hollywood Video stores starting February 1, 2005 as a promotion.
Assault returns the Star Fox series to its space-combat roots after the previous game in the series, Star Fox Adventures, which took a more action-RPG approach. Assault takes place one year after the events of Adventures and introduces a new enemy named the Aparoids, a race bent on the assimilation of the Lylat system into their collective mind.Assault contains orchestral arrangements of music from Star Fox 64.
When Assault was initially announced by Nintendo and Namco, it was also rumored that an arcade game was under development. However, the arcade game was never heard about again in public.
The gameplay of Star Fox: Assault is divided into three distinctive types. The player can either fly an Arwing (a spacecraft), drive a Landmaster (a tank), or perform certain tasks on foot. All three play types are available for multiplayer mode although some levels on multi-player mode are specific. For example, Level 1, "Fortuna: A New Enemy" is specifically Arwing. The game follows a completely linear track, unlike its predecessors Star Fox and Star Fox 64.
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