Star Fox Zero
Fox, Falco, Peppy and Slippy save the Lylat system in this new deep space dogfighting adventure. Using the Wii U GamePad controller and the TV together creates a unique interface that allows players to…
Star Fox Zero is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development, released 21 April 2016 on Wii U.
What Star Fox Zero is
Star Fox Zero is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Star Fox Zero is a 2016 rail shooter game developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It is the sixth installment in the Star Fox series and a reimagining of Star Fox 64. Formally announced at E3 2015, the game was released in April 2016. A standalone tower defense game, titled Star Fox Guard, was bundled with the game.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Star Fox series
Star Fox Zero is the 19th of 26 entries we hold in the Star Fox series. It arrived a year after Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The next entry was Star Fox Guard in 2016. Its critic score of 67 is 11 points below the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Star Fox Zero holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 56 votes.
What it launched against
Star Fox Zero launched on 21 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Fox Zero yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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