Fast paced, in your face, futuristic racing action. Plentiful with customizing for your creative side.
User Rating: 8.8 | F-Zero GX GC
F-Zero GX is a racer that delivered way more than I expected, coming off of a good GBA start, I was wondering what the franchise was going to do to stay fresh in the console realm. F-Zero surely took the cube by storm delivering not only smooth fast graphics, but gameplay that actually keeps you coming back after you’re lured in by the eye candy. In case you haven't had any contact with anyone for a long time, F-Zero GX is a game where you race a hovering race craft, pitted against many other race crafts in hopes to come out victorious (29 other racers to be exact). But actually what F-Zero GX adds to the franchise is a story mode; which isn't about the story so much, but the numerous situations it puts you in. Such as having to smash your way through 29 racers before reaching a certain point, or having to escape through a burning tunnel/pipe while collecting turbo and dodging walls. While F-Zero provides some of the fastest racing action to be seen on the GameCube, it also serves up some quality customizing. It's not really in depth customizing, but you do get to make your own racer by combing 3 key parts together (cockpit, booster, main base). Combining different pieces together will effect how your racer handles exactly, also adding in the weight factor, and also the coolness factor will depend on which pieces you decide to combine together to make your racer. The best part about making your racer is the picture perfect graphics program that F-Zero uses. It's similar to MS paint, but when applying your picture, you can tilt the vehicle any way your want, and stamp the design on any way you want; you are also allowed to stretch and shrink your design before you stamp it onto your racer. This editor is amazing and allows you to totally pimp out your racer by adding cool paint jobs, or just logos and decals if you want. While F-Zero is said to be an extremely hard game, I found that not to be the case, since within a week I had almost totally unlocked everything in the game, but if you aren't a real racing game gamer, then F- Zero will seem unbelievably hard; though don't fret, it's not impossible by any means. While trying to unlock the game's 40 cars, I ran into a problem, there were a couple missions that were impossible to beat. No matter how well I did, I just couldn't beat them on the hardest mode, almost as if they are forcing me to go to the arcade to plug in my data and money into the F-Zero AC game just to perfect my file and get the last couple parts in the game. Through all of F-Zero's tracks and story mode, you can't help but notice the finely presented graphics and the crisp sound. Filled with detailed backgrounds, plenty of grinding metal sparks, and constantly smooth frame rate even with up to 30 racers on the screen at one time all smashing and bashing about, F-Zero is just so fun to look at even while playing. The sound also adds to the insane action with explosions, and all the necessary metal bashing sounds, along with some cool techno beats that amp up the action too. Even if the voice acting is kind of corny in story mode, it really doesn't matter because while you’re playing, it's pure quality. While F-Zero provides us everything any gamer needs to have a fun time, the fun seems to die out after about a couple weeks; but don't let that stop you from playing this racer, it hits that gaming itch right where it counts. Those of you looking for another great multiplayer game to add to your collection, make sure to buy this for the single player, because mulitplayer is in shorter terms, busted.
