Re:Play - Episode 3: Star Fox (SNES)
Star Fox...or is it Starwing? Star Fox or Starwing as it's known in the UK was Nintendo's answer to having a 16-bit shooter... in 3D! Utilising a fancy named graphics chip - Super FX - Star Fox was not only the second 3D Nintendo title (the first being X on the Game Boy) - but also the first to use polygonal graphics. While Star Fox may have been groundbreaking in 1993, does its graphics and gameplay still hold up 29-years later? Straight from its title scrawl, you know that Star Fox is going to be unique. Set to the beat of an incredible 16-bit ensemble, a trio of starfighters scream across the darkness. No sooner have they made their appearance, they're soon destroyed by a gorgeous array of lasers as an ominous polygonal shape looms into view. It's from this point that you know this currently unknown enemy means business. While the opening introduction plays homage to that scene in Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope , for Star Fox...