Star Fox Adventures

Star Fox Adventures takes place in a vast 3-D world full of strange scenery, brain-teasing puzzles and intense action. Learn the secrets of a mystical staff to fend off enemies and cast a variety of spells…

60 22 September 2002

Adventure Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Open world Science fiction

Star Fox Adventures is an adventure developed by Rare, released 22 September 2002 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.

Verified 13 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Star Fox Adventures is

Star Fox Adventures is an adventure game developed by Rare and released in 2002. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fox Mccloud investigates a planet on the edge of the Lylat System called Dinosaur Planet, which is falling apart. On the planet's surface, he comes across a magical staff, which becomes his sole weapon. He learns from the Queen of the EarthWalker Tribe that General Scales has stolen the Spellstones from the planet's two Force Point Temples. To prevent the planet from breaking up further and restore it to its original unity, Fox must restore the Spellstones to the temples, with the help of the Queen's son, Prince Tricky. As Fox retrieves the Spellstones, he discovers that he must also retrieve Krazoa Spirits to repair the planet, and save the life of another.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Fox series

Star Fox Adventures is the ninth of 26 entries we hold in the Star Fox series. It arrived 10 months after Super Smash Bros. Melee. The next entry was Fox McCloud's Blazing Blueberry Blast Off in 2002. Its critic score of 60 is 18 points below 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 Adventures holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 114 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 20 hrs.

What it launched against

Star Fox Adventures launched on 22 September 2002, within three weeks of Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Cheats and codes

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