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Developer Q-Games is a Japanese development studio set up by Dylan Cuthbert, formerly of Argonaut (the developers of the Super Famicom/SNES Star Fox games). The studio was approached to develop a demo for a new Star Fox game while they were working on bit Generations: Digidrive on the Game Boy Advance.

With the last of Venom's forces defeated and the Lylat System at peace, the Star Fox team has disbanded, and its members have gone their separate ways. Fox still patrols the skies with ROB64, Peppy has been made a General in the Cornerian army, Falco has gone it alone, and Slippy is spending time with his new girlfriend.

Then a new threat arises from the acid oceans of Venom, believed to be uninhabitable. The Anglar Army wish to destroy the Lylat System. General Peppy reassembles the Star Fox team to combat this new threat.

Star Fox: Command returns the Star Fox team to aerial battles, but borrows many of its other gameplay elements from the unreleased Star Fox 2.

You have to plot your route across the planet, intercepting enemies that are aiming for the Great Fox mothership while also trying to clear the mission. You and the enemy take it in turns to move your craft across the map. You also use the touch screen to clear patches of fog that obscure enemy hiding places.

When you intercept an enemy on the map, you enter an action scene. You can control your Arwing using the touch screen. Here you have to defeat all enemies, destroy a base or collect a certain number of enemy cores. The whole mission has a time limit, so you must work out a strategy for clearing the action scenes.

Different members of the Star Fox team and other characters (both old and new) appear as playable characters with their own ships and individual skillsets.

There are 9 different endings depending on the path through the game you take. In order to see the different endings you have to play through the game multiple times.

A multiplayer dogfighting mode is available, where you have to shoot down enemies and collect the stars they drop behind you. You can play over local wireless multiplayer, or play over the Nintendo wi-fi connection.

Cameos

Octoman

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Octoman, one of the racers from the F-Zero series appears as a boss character during certain Aquas and Venom missions. His ship resembles the Deep Claw F-Zero racer.

Lylat GP

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One of the game's many alternate endings shows Fox and Falco on an F-Zero style racetrack under the banner "Lylat GP", with their Arwings on the ground converted into F-Zero racers.

Star Fox Series

• Star Fox
• Star Fox 64
• Star Fox Adventures
• Star Fox Assault
• Star Fox Command