Star Fox 64, known as Lylat Wars in the PAL regions, is a 3D rail shooter video game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the second installment in the Star Fox series and a reboot of the original Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Star Fox 64 was the very first Nintendo 64 game to feature support for the system's Rumble Pak peripheral, which initially came bundled with retail copies of the game. Since its release in 1997, the game has sold over 4 million copies, making it the best-selling game in the series and the ninth best-selling game on the system. The game received critical acclaim for its precise controls, voice acting, multiplayer modes, and replayability through the use of branching gameplay paths. Like the SNES Star Fox game before it, Star Fox 64 has been deemed one of the greatest video games of all time. A stereoscopic 3D remake for the Nintendo 3DS, Star Fox 64 3D, was released in 2011, and a reimagining for the Wii U, Star Fox Zero, was released in 2016.
The once-prosperous Lylat System is now fractured, plagued by civil unrest, pirates, and the destruction of planets. The Star Fox Team are washed-up mercenaries taking low-tier contracts just to stay airborne. But when an encrypted message from a missing General Pepper points to the return of the galaxy’s greatest threat, Andross. Fox McCloud and his crew must overcome their personal demons and band together to stop a war that could shatter space-time. This ain’t just a dogfight anymore — this is the first war for existence.
