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Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon | 
| From: THQ
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2462
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: STAR WARS FLIGHT OF THE FALCON VIDEO GAME (NINTENDO GAMEBOY ADVANCE VIDEO GAME VERSION)
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4.9 x 1
MPN: 32139
UPC: 785138321394
EAN: 0785138321394
ASIN: B00009XS66
Publication Date: 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Tested and works great (save function still works)! Cartridge only. Instruction manual and original box/case NOT included. Cartridge has minor wear/scratching. Free upgrade to USPS First Class shipping for standard orders.
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| Features:
| • | Dodge, shoot and speed past the Empire in 14 exciting missions | | • | Relive the famous battles of the Star Wars Universe, like the Battles of Yavin and Endor | | • | Fly other aircraft as you engage the TIE Fighters, in frantic space/surface battles&outrun Imperial patrols | | • | Highly detailed environments and ships bring the action to life! |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon, you'll get in the cockpit of the legendary Millennium Falcon and pilot it through deadly missions against the Empire!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 6 Year Old Can't Put it Down April 27, 2007
M. Whitmarsh (Commerce, MI United States)
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.
 JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED !!!! August 16, 2005
Chewy (New Orleans, Louisiana United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!!!!
The bestd graphicson GBA May 30, 2005
White Beaver
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like this game because have a solid graphics, good entretaiment is a good opcion for a saturday night.
Fun game, but a little hard. May 16, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Over all, this was a fun game. But as my title says it was hard. I think that most people will get stuck on leval 2 as I did. (Hint: if you get far enough before time runs out you beat the leval.)With 14 fun levals it's a good game.
A great shoot-em-up November 2, 2004
A. L. Thomas (Sandusky, Ohio United States)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
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