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Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 11 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: THQ
Developer: Pocket Studios
Genre(s): Action
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Summary
Jump into the cockpit of the most popular ship in the Star Wars universe to outrun, outblast, and outsmart the Empire in this all-new classic Star Wars game. Pilot the Millennium Falcon, as well as other space craft, to relive the Battles of Yavin and Endor as TIE Fighters and bombers attempt to take you out. Can you out run the Empire? Pilot the Millennium Falcon, the most popular vehicle from the classic Star Wars universe, along with other well-know spacecraft. 14 combat-filled missions interweaving the movie storylines with all new plot twists. Frantic space/surface battles and high-speed flying action. Upgradeable weapons and shields. Highly detailed environments and ships. [THQ]
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What The Critics Said
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Worth Playing
It has wonderful atmosphere, and wonderful graphics, but the gameplay just isn't as strong as it should be, especially for a rail shooter. Also, the enemy patterns are not very well crafted.
Read Full Review >Nintendophiles
The graphics system works, not too well, but every level is playable and enjoyable if it weren’t for having to start over completely after each life.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Thanks to the poor controls and the fact that the levels seem to drag on forever, Flight of the Falcon just feels like a very forced and flawed experienced from the very start.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
It's a little tricky to target enemy ships at first, and the levels are longer than they have to be, but the game has an unmistakable Star Wars flair. [Feb 2004, p.154]
Cheat Code Central
Where Flight of the Falcon goes wrong is in trying to make the GBA display 3D environments for an entire game.
IGN
The missions are dreadfully too long and feature very little change in gameplay regardless of the settings and craft to control.
Read Full Review >Next Level Gaming
The game is hampered by very bad laggy gameplay that seems like in some of the game levels (mostly all of them) it is running at 5 fps.
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
It has some redeeming qualities which are massively out weighed by its shortcomings. If you see this game for $5 it might be worth the effort to pick it up but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
A disappointment. Only the most patient and faithful will want to get through the entire game.
Read Full Review >Gamenikki
All the laws of the universe are invalid. Flight of the Falcon is a Star Wars title with horrible sound. The standard TIE Fighter howls and laser blasts are all acceptable, but the theme music obliterates any good from those. The problem starts from the beginning, with an atrocious MIDI version of the Star Wars fanfare, and only goes downhill.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
The framerate chugs along to a point where many of the stages should be classified as unplayable. I'd be surprised if this game pushes more than 10 frames per second at any given time. [Jan 2004, p.160]
Read Full Review >Pocket Games
Not even the most hardcore Star Wars fans should go anywhere near this game. [Spring 2004, p.47]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stray D. gave it a5:
This could be worse. however, that would be pretty hard. Although, for a gba game the graphics were ok, i was expecting better.
Mal K. gave it a 9:
I liked the grafics and sound effects but the password system sucks.
Will gave it a 4:
As a newcomer to the game world, I'm just glad this wasn't the first gameboy game i tried to play, because it would have been my last. This thing is crap.
Jeff W. gave it a 7:
The password system sucks and the missions are a little long but the sound effects are awesome and it is a fly the falcon game.
Danny gave it a 10:
It is awesome the graphiques are awesome but the levels are long it is still AWESOME!!!
Sprooogy gave it a 1:
It's a stinker through and through. I love star wars (OG) as much as anyone, this is worse than 'the phantom menace!'
Dan B. gave it a 6:
Its an Awesome game, and lives up to the Star Wars name, but as far as flight capability it bites. I like a Challenge to, but this game has no difficulty setting, and It took me 30 minutes to beat the 2nd level. Thank Goodness for cheats.
