F-Zero

Product Details

Platform : Super Nintendo
Binding : Video Game
EAN : 0045496830021
Manufacturer : Nintendo
Product Group : Video Games
Release Date : 2007-07-24
UPC : 045496830021

ASIN : B00002SVFQ

Customer Reviews

F-Five Star (or how I learned to stop worrying and love exploding hover cars) (2007-06-29)

F-Zero is, even after the releases of the Grand Turismos, the Need for Speeds, the Forzas and, yes, even the Mario Karts, my favourite racing game. Its controls are amazing for the era in which it was published, the graphics are, as well. What puts it so high in my heart, though, might be the music. Like Donkey Kong Country, it somehow manages to string together some of the best, most atmospheric video game music of all time. I picked F-zero up yesterday after a 7-12 year absence of the game, and in all that time I never forgot the theme songs to Mute City, Big Blue, and so on. But music isn't everything, and if a game ain't fun you can just burn a soundtrack. F-zero is a blast. Like I said, the controls are really something else. I'm shocked that these physics came out of a SNES game. Most of all though, it's fun. Every track is a concious battle against screwing up, but not in a frustrating way. It's like you're playing yourself at a game of chess (except in this case you are neither black or white, but a two-ton metal car flying over laser roads and a maze of purple iron death at a few hundred miles per hour.) That said, the game is pretty harsh. You can catch up to first place easy enough, but there are a few points in a few levels that you will simply have to practice at-- there will be no lucky breaks on those hurdles. But as I said, it's not really frustrating, like I make it sound.Multiplayer I've found is less fun than, say, your Mariokarts, but the single player is F-zero's real strength. There are only three leagues to go through with a few settings of difficulty, and a limited selection of cars. Maybe you'll play it for a week, two weeks, and get bored, but I can guarantee you that you'll be playing it again within two months. Like the Siren's call, it'll draw you back every time.I gave this four stars because of A. the somewhat limited gameplay and B. the unforgiving hurdles the game throws at you. The latter is not really a problem, though, just occasionally annoying.Unfourtunately that doesn't really lead me into a stellar closing line, so I'll just say: F-zero is one of the many bright gems of the SNES age, and I can't recommend it enough.

Ignore the others (2003-06-18)

You're all morons. This is honestly one of the greatest racing games ever. There are plenty of wonderful tracks, four cars is perfectly fine, the music is amazing, and it controls perfectly. I've yet to play any other racer that even came close to being as exciting and 'on the edge' as this game. Have a race on the track called Silence with the difficulty turned up, then you'll know what an experience this game is....

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