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A great shoot-em-up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game so that I could fly my favorite ship from the Star Wars trilogy and blast tie fighters. I got what I was looking for. This game offers up some great action, awesome scenery, and spectacular space battles.

The view is third person from behind your vehicle, and the action is fast and furious arcade style. Controls are easy to master. You can move your vehicle in any direction, speed up, slow down, and fire primary and secondary weapons. A small target crosshair in the distance aids in lining up shots.

While most of the game features the Millennium Falcon, there are other vehicles you have to pilot. Luke's landspeeder, an X-Wing fighter, and a speeder bike. The first level starts us off with the Millennium Falcon approaching Tatooine, and you have to shoot down tie fighters that are coming after you. The remainder of the game showcases Luke's landspeeder navigating the streets of Mos Eisely spaceport, the Falcon traversing a desert canyon while shooting down probe droids, the attack on the Death Star, the asteroid field, a strange level where the Falcon chases Boba Fett's ship though Bespin's cityscape, the escape from the super Star Destroyer, the chaotic battle over Endor, a speeder bike chase, and the assault on the second Death Star.

The space battles are intense, with waves of tie fighters coming in, and flybys over Star Destroyers and the rebel fleet. This game is a great 3D shoot-em-up. Some of the other levels are obstacle courses. The Death Star trench is filled with crossbeams and turrets, making it a pretty challenging obstacle course to maneuver through. The asteroid field is what one might expect. Avoid the asteroids while shooting at the tie fighters. The final level has the Falcon maneuvering through the interior of the second Death Star. The reactor core and its defenses make for a nice end-game boss.

Visually, the game is impressive. The scenery is absolutely fantastic. Especially the spaceport, forest, and space-going vistas above planets. Tie fighters look like little blips when they're far away, but they look great up close when they fly by. There are normal tie fighters, tie bombers, and tie interceptors. Out in space, there's some notable pop-up. I was surprised when the first Star Destroyer just sort of popped onto the screen. When you get closer, the Star Destroyers look fabulous. The scenery in the spaceport and forest is great, sporting some nice detail. The Falcon looks good, as does the X-Wing.

This game performs just as well in the sound department. All of the familiar themes from the movies are present, and the game does an admirable job with them. The effects are awesome. Tie fighter laser blasts sound exactly like they're supposed to. So does everything else, from the Death Star's turrets to the Falcon's engines as it speeds up. A Chewbacca roar accompanies the selecting of an option. Han Solo says "You're all clear, kid!" when you approach the exhaust port, and Lando Calrissian says "Here goes nothing" as you enter the interior of the second Death Star. A nice touch.

This game is pretty hard. It's not a game you can zip through on your first try. It takes some getting used to, and it takes practice. You're given a limited number of lives, and a few continues. Four-character passwords are given out at the end of each episode. The first level is pretty easy; then the challenges begin. Be prepared to crash into walls many times before mastering the obstacle courses.

There are few details I really like about this game. In some of the levels, you don't crash if you fly into the floor (like, while flying over the surface of the Death Star). Instead, the game just places a limit on how low you can go. You also don't have to worry about crashing into a canyon wall or a side wall of a trench. In some of the levels, your vehicle only takes damage from hitting obstacles (as opposed to an instant death). I like this as well. Of course, a head-on crash with something usually results in an instant death; but not always. I was ramming head-on into trees during the speeder bike chase, and I was only taking damage. Speaking of which, this is the best speeder bike level I've seen in a game. It looks great, plays great, and is a lot of fun.

Completing the game gives a password that unlocks a bonus game. It's an old-fashioned, side-scrolling shoot-em-up where you fly the Falcon and shoot down tie fighters. Pretty cool.

I have just a few complaints with this game. The Star Destroyer pop-up leaves something to be desired. Would've been nicer if you could see it approaching in the distance. The Falcon's dogfight with the tie fighters after the escape from the Death Star is conspicuously absent. And there are some cheap shots near the end as prevalent tie bombers fly into view from behind. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you'll crash into one of them.

All said and done, I had a great time with Flight Of The Falcon. It's a fun shoot-em-up with great graphics, beautiful scenery, awesome sound effects, and some engaging game-play. The faults here are few, and the strengths are many. My verdict: thumbs way up.

Do you have what it takes to best the empire?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 49
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jump into the cockpit of the most popular ship in the Star Wars univers to outrun, outblast, and outsmarte the Empire(all with graphics that you thought were impossible on a GBA) in this all-new, classic starwars game. Pilot the Falcon, as well as other spacecraft, to relive the battles of Yavin and Endor as TIE Fighters and bombers attempt to take you out. Can you outrun the Empire with a GBA?

Note: The game seemes to vaguely follow Return of the Jedi...

The bestd graphicson GBA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like this game because have a solid graphics, good entretaiment is a good opcion for a saturday night.

JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're like me and your favorite parts of these Star Wars movies are the space fighting scenes,then this game is for you.My only dissapointment was the streaming star effect when you use the lightspeed feature.I went to the movies 5 times as a kid to see that back then.Oh well,but this is still awesome!!!!

Cool Pocket Star Wars Shoot-em-up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought it because it was Star Wars. I had to. Any chance to shoot TIE Fighters with the Millenium Falcon is okay with me.

The graphics and sound are remarkable considering this is on a hand-held system. The detail is excellent and I especially like hearing Chewbacca roar when you make menu selections.

The 3D rendering can get a little confusing and this is where it takes lots of patience and practice. There are a few levels you have to do while dodging structures (e.g. Mos Eisley, the trench run) and it does get difficult. Sorry, but you're not going to beat this game the first dozen times you play it. To me, that makes it a challenging game, not a bad game.

The one I'm not too crazy about is that you don't get a password until you pass quite a few levels. Basically, you have to go through the whole plot line of "A New Hope" before you can get a password and save your game. Otherwise, if you die and go through all your continues, it's back to the beginning, buddy.

In conclusion: buy it if you're a Star Wars fan--you'll have fun no matter how far you get in the game. Not a fan--save your money because you'll likely get frustrated.

Thanks for reading.

Pushes the hardware too far...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While it looks good on the outside, I do suggest not judging this book by its cover :). I rented this game (thankfully) and have to say that it's the first time I've seen a game push a piece of hardware too far.

The GB Advance is not a 3D machine, although the developers of 'Flight of the Falcon' tried their best to recreate the 3D rich Gamecube Star Wars games. The result? A game so difficult not due to its design, but by the limitation of the hardware!

A perfect example is the second level, where the player is racing through the Mos Eisley spaceport in Luke's desert speeder. The objective is to beat the clock while dodging buildings and other obstacles. The developers ignored the hardware limitations and created a level that's nearly impossible to traverse because the system can't render a sharp image until it's nearly on top of the player. It became so frustrating that I had to put it down and return it to the video store (thankfully I rented this one).

A better alternative would be the Wing Commander Prophecy game. It's not perfect but does a great job of implementing a 3D space shooter on the GBA platform.

Stay Away from this Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The first level wasn't that hard, but the next three were impossible. And it can get really frustrating. You need to clear the entire movie scenes with space shuttles before getting a code to be able to save the game. It looked pretty interesting on the cover, but when I played it it was as boring as can be. Beware of this game, beware of the fighters.

Worst Game EVER!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is so boring and hard.I played it for a half an hour and I got bored of it.Dont buy this.I repeat dont buy this.I cant believe I bought this stupid piece of ****.I wasted my money.Dont buy this!

6 Year Old Can't Put it Down

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my son's 6th birthday. He has not been able to put it down. It is a very basic play concept which made it easy for him to pick it up and run with it. I do think an adult would be bored quickly.
We have not been able to find out how to unlock the later levels but hopefully, he will as much fun when we do.

Good for Old Schoolers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think I speak for a growing number of old school game players who, like me, got the new Gameboy ASP after years of just messing around with emulators and other ways of playing games from the '80s, maybe playing a few games at friends' houses.

With the new sleek look of the new Gameboy, we were drawn to the idea of having great games in our pocket. We've tried a lot of the new titles, but always seem to end up playing the old games on cartidges like "Namco Museum," "Atari Anniversary" and "Activision Anthology." While we really enjoy these games, we wish for a little more of a modern experience while holding on to the old shcool ethos.

Well, I say that this is the best game I have now and it's just great for old schoolers who don't want to spend a lot of time pressing combinations of buttons to change weapons, find things, and "use" things. A straight-ahead shooter, FOTF reminds me a lot of a 3-D Galaga. Shoot your A** off and groove to the theme music.

I've read complaints that the 3-D graphics aren't great, but you know what? It's a Gameboy, get over it, this isn't an X-box. The graphics are amazing for a Gameboy and really draw you into the game.

I've read complaints that the targeting is difficult. I see the targeting as being a lot more like older video games: you actually have to put the target on the the thing you want to shoot in order to destroy it ... sorry newbie game players, you just can't float across something and expect to get it.

The game does get pretty hard and I haven't travelled too far. But, if you have the pass word to unlock all the levels, you basically have a few different games to fool around with -- including the Bonus round that's like an old Atari Defender-style side-shooter.

Overall, I found this game really satisfying. It's got an old school feel with new school graphics and sounds. Some may find it repetitive and boring, but they're the ones who are into reading "plot lines" with their games. Shoot away.

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