F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu

As anime fans probably know by dint of now, there's a TV display based on Nintendo's F-Zero series of futuristic racers... and, as they probably also know by dint of now, it's not quite the Spe Racer for the 21st hundred everyone was hoping for. Ah well. We'll live. What's more important now is that Nintendo's working upon a new Game Boy Advance racer based upon this anime... and judging from the info they've released for a like reason far, it looks like a fairly worthy follow-up to GBA launch classic F-Zero: Maximum Velocity.

Just like the anime, the star of F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu is Ryu Suzaku, a former fresh York cop who's racing in the game's 23rd-century speeder circuit while tracking down alien criminal mastermind Zoda. The "Falcon Legend" in question involves Captain Falcon, a mysterious racer who be subservient tos both as Ryu's top rival and his best friend without on the racetrack.

This piece of ground is played out in its have a title to separate Story Mode, a cutscene-laced game fashion featuring eight different characters. You can sole select Ryu at the beginning of this style but as your guy meetings other rivals -- including Zoda, Falcon, Samurai Goroh, and the ever-popular (?) Lisa Brilliant -- extra scenarios for those characters are unfastened until you get to the point where you've played [i]or[/i] part of to the other the stories for all eight pilots in the game.

Falcon Densetsu itself strike one as beings fairly similar to Maximum Velocity (originally released in 2001) on the other hand with a few key extras. To help the younger anime-watching audience procure into the game, Nintendo is including a "Zero Test" method a set of 12 small races designed to teach the basics of tackling turn rounds and fighting off rival speeder The Grand Prix tournament fashion is back, as is the single-player Time Attack for each track. There's also filled multiplayer support for up to four players, the couple with a single cartridge and with multiple carts, although details upon this mode have yet to be revealed online.

F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu is plant to hit Japanese stores November 28 An American release has however to be announced.

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