Created 7/3/98 Last updated 7/3/98

Made by Rare
1 Player
16 Megabytes

Graphics 10 (Huge environments with NO fog, lots of textures)
Sound 9(All apropriate, all characters talk with Star Fox 1 type sounds)
Music 9(Interactive everchanging, with high quality instrument samples. A bit on the cutesy side.)
Gameplay 10 (Just like Mario 64, but with even more stuff to do.)
Overall 10 Great. If you already have Goldeneye, go get this too.

Wow. I didn't expect this one to be so good. This game is just as good as Mario 64. Amazing. The graphics use an incredable number of detailed, super colorful, great looking textures. The art style is a cross between Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot. The frame rate remains at 30 fps on the actual levels, though it dips a bit in the navigational parts. There is plenty of pre-rendered colored lighting, flexing textures, huge worlds, the list goes on.

The sounds are good, with the standard creature sounds, jumping sounds, etc. Also, when you talk with any of the many characters throughout the game, they talk with there own lttle 'voice'. It is kind of like how the characters talked on the original Star Fox on the SNES, but better. While it isn't as cool as the full speech of Star Fox 64, It is obvious that the space saved is going to good use. The music is high quality, and it is always changing on the fly to match the situation you are currently dealing with in the game.

Gameplay is very simular to Mario 64's, the one bad part being the absense of the cool-ass long-jump that helped travel large areas of land quickly. In it's place is a running backflip, just like the standing backflip in M64. Banjo Kazooie makes you learn the moves as you progress in the game, so when you first start, you don't have access to all the cool moves. Flying is pretty cool, too, especially after you get the beak charge thing. It shoots you like a rocket, in mid flight.

Go out and get this game. I got it at Best Buy for only $49.00.