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A new version of Star Fox is currently in development for Wii U by Shigeru Miyamoto, the famed creator has confirmed to Time.
The publication had the opportunity to view the game and describes it as remaining true to its spaceship shooter roots, only with new GamePad motion controls to aim and fire the Airwing’s weapons, whilst simultaneously controlling the craft with the analogue stick.
New to the series is a helicopter, designed to be piloted by two players: one player controls the helicopter itself, whilst the other take command of a small robot you can drop from a tether to roll around a limited area picking up loot or shooting enemies.
Miyamoto says the game is based on a Wii prototype which never progressed into a full game.
“Whenever we create new hardware we do some experiments with it, but on Wii we didn’t release any Star Fox games, so we took some of the experimentation that we’d done and the assets that we’d used then and used them for the experimentation we were doing with the Wii U,” he explained to Time.
He added: “We originally began working with Star Fox back on Wii, and we had a small group of people experimenting with it for many years, maybe about six years, but we didn’t find an idea that really brought that together for the Wii. So instead we moved experimentation to the Wii U using some of the same assets. It’s been maybe 6 to 10 months that we’ve been experimenting with it.”
Exactly how the game will be released remains to be decided, with Miyamoto suggesting it may roll out in downloadable parts.
“One thing I’m thinking is that with this Star Fox we may take a different approach, so that rather than one big title we have multiple releases that are connected through different missions,” he explained. “If I was to describe the Star Fox series up until now as being sort of a movie series, I guess I’d describe this new approach as something that’s more like a TV series for Star Fox.”
The game is said to be at least one year away from being finished.
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Source: Time
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