Not the way I like to see Fox.

User Rating: 6.3 | Star Fox Command DS
Starfox 64 is one of my favorite games of all time and I was hoping I would get something along those lines again with Starfox Command, but I was sadly mistaken.

Starfox Command tried to take a tactical approach to the Starfox universe and incorporate the free range flying into it. So, let me break down how the game works.
You start off in a 2D top-down view area where you see your ship (Fox's), the Command Base ship and some enemy ships. You have a set number of turns to take out all the enemies and you can move X distance per turn. You draw out the path you want Fox to take on a turn and if he runs into a ship you fight it.

The ship fights go into an open range 3D flight battle. In here you'll control Fox's ship with your stylus on screen and shoot with the shoulder buttons. After defeating all enemies in an area you go back out to the tactics part to try and take on any enemies left.

Eventually you get more ships on your side and you have more enemies to defeat. Nintendo also thought it would be a grand idea to start to cover the screen in fog so that you can't see whats where. Now, to be fair, you can wipe off some of this fog using the stylus, but only a small amount so you can't fully reveal the screen.

While this may sound like a good thing to you tactics freaks, it's really a load of BS. It leaves the difficulty of the game to be all about luck since you can't see where everything is and you could take a low route while all the ships are up on the high end then you just have to do it again because you only learn through failure. I must commend the game though for having some awesome flying parts. The controls feel wonderful and it looks stunning. I couldn't get enough of the flying parts, but the tactics were so bad that I didn't even want to get to flying anymore. The multiplayer was pretty lame as well. You and your buds all appear in an open range area and you battle it out. It's not nearly as fun as it sounds...did it even sound fun? There's really nothing more to say about that.

In the end this game had potential had they kept it 64 style and been flying the whole time through areas, but instead they decided to do something "new" with the series that turned it to crap. Maybe they'll get it right next time. Don't waste your money.