Ludicrous speed

F-Zero GX is wickedly fast. It demands your complete and undivided attention. The hovercrafts you pilot can hit speeds of over 2000km/h, but while it doesn’t feel quite that fast, the sensation of speed is easily some of the best we’ve ever experienced.

It's a beautiful day

Welcome to Mute City

Into the foliage

Razor-sharp controls

Being “all speed and no control” would be a terrible thing, but thankfully, F-Zero GX controls beautifully. Perhaps it all comes from developer Amusement Vision’s experience with fine-tuning controls from making Super Monkey Ball, where controls made the game. When you mess up in a race, you realize that it was pilot error instead of blaming the controls.

Does sewage run through that?

Shocking

Fat pipe

The analog stick controls lift and steers left and right. The L and R shoulder buttons aid in slide-turns (better for hovercrafts with high top-speed), and holding down both does drift-turns (better for hovercrafts with good acceleration). The (B)raking and (A)cceleration buttons aren’t analog, so it’s all or none – but no matter, full-throttle all the way, eh? Hitting Y when permissible gives you a speed boost. The X and Z buttons are offensive and are used to knock, bump, and damage rival racers.