Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon

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.

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.

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]

The missions are dreadfully too long and feature very little change in gameplay regardless of the settings and craft to control.

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.

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.

A neck-stabbingly frustrating bore. [Apr 2004, p.86]

Where Flight of the Falcon goes wrong is in trying to make the GBA display 3D environments for an entire game.

A disappointment. Only the most patient and faithful will want to get through the entire game.

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.

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]