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F-Zero GX Review
August 29, 2003   Marcus Yam > [View My Other Articles]
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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.

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It's a beautiful day

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Welcome to Mute City

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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.

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Shocking

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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.



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Ndcube developed F-Zero: Maximum Velocity as a GBA launch title. Despite looking very similar to the SNES game, it played and handled quite differently.

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