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Star Fox 64 3D

The Star Fox team triumphantly returns to one of its greatest missions with this remake of Star Fox 64 in full 3D, featuring a complete graphical update. The entire Star Fox universe spreads out realistically…

78 17 July 2011

Star Fox 64 3D is a shooter developed by Nintendo, released 17 July 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Star Fox 64 3D is

Star Fox 64 3D is a shooter game developed by Nintendo and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Corneria, forth planet from the Lylat system. The evil Andross turned this once-thriving system into a wasteland of near extinction. General Pepper of the Cornerian army was successful in exiling this maniacal scientist to the barren, deserted planet Venom. Five years later, General Pepper noticed strange activity coming from Venom. James McCloud, Pigma Dengar, and Peppy Hare of the Star Fox team were sent to investigate. Upon their arrival, Pigma betrayed the team, and James and Peppy were captured by Andross. Peppy barely escaped Venom and returned home to tell James's son Fox about his father's fate. A few years have passed. Andross again has invaded the Lylat system. General Pepper has…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Star Fox series

Star Fox 64 3D is the 16th of 26 entries we hold in the Star Fox series. It arrived 3 years after Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS in 2014. Its critic score of 78 is almost exactly the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Star Fox 64 3D holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 58 votes.

What it launched against

Star Fox 64 3D launched on 17 July 2011, within three weeks of Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust and Kirby Mass Attack. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust, Kirby Mass Attack.

Cheats and codes

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When did Star Fox 64 3D come out?
Star Fox 64 3D was released on 17 July 2011 for Nintendo 3DS.

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