Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

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  • Summary: Only you, Buzz Lightyear, and your elite Space Ranger team can defeat the evil Emperor Zurg in his dark quest for universal domination! Blast off with power-ups like shields, rockets, homing weapons and lightning beams. Fight on jetpacks, hoverboards, jetbikes and more! Explore 12 levels inOnly you, Buzz Lightyear, and your elite Space Ranger team can defeat the evil Emperor Zurg in his dark quest for universal domination! Blast off with power-ups like shields, rockets, homing weapons and lightning beams. Fight on jetpacks, hoverboards, jetbikes and more! Explore 12 levels in seven amazing worlds, including Planet Z.… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. PSX Nation
    73
    It falls squarely in the middle of fun and boring as it's both. The repetitive nature of the game just takes out any fun that might have occurred in the beginning.
  2. Happy Puppy
    70
    The game is repetitive, no doubt, but there are enough challenges to make it worth a sitting or two.
  3. Da Gameboyz
    60
    The graphics are cartoony but they could be improved, the voices and music are really good but the SFX are not quite on par, and the gameplay is repetitive and tedious.
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  4. GamePro
    50
    BLSC's camera movement is an immediate hurl-inducing experience: the camera swoops around like a roller coaster gone mad.
  5. Daily Radar
    50
    Erratic control and graphical limitations on top of too many niggling requirements make this game experience less than enjoyable.
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  6. GameSpot
    49
    Boasting nothing resembling extraordinary gameplay, it serves, rather, as a vehicle for the license.
  7. CNET Gamecenter
    40
    With sloppy controls, an uncomfortable camera, poor voices, and awful music, BLSC has little to get excited about, even if you're a hard-core "Toy Story" fan.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. mrod9497
    Mar 4, 2019
    8
    My review may not be so helpful in the sense that I not only grew up with this game, but i grew up with it on the PC as well. The gameplay canMy review may not be so helpful in the sense that I not only grew up with this game, but i grew up with it on the PC as well. The gameplay can definitely feel like a bore to many people, and I can see why. The chase and battle playstyle is more fit for 5-9 year olds who like Toy Story or Buzz Lightyear in general. However, one thing that gets glossed over that really shouldn't get ignored is the soundtrack. The soundtrack for this game is absolutely phenomenal, and to veterans of Travelers Tales, the music style may seem familiar. The people responsible for the soundtrack of this game also helped do the soundtrack for Toy Story 2, Tarzan, A Bug's Life, and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.
    The controls can be on the slippy side admittedly, but you can get used it it after a level or two.
    The game isnt too hard I would say, with the exception of one level in particular, which is Level 12: Canis Lunis 2. If you have a kid who lacks patience, DO NOT let him play this level alone. From experience as a kid when i played this game (on two platforms no less), this level can kick your ass hard if you arent quick at dodging enemy fire and quick in killing the enemies. Its basically a Horde mode, but with a bomb in a separate room, which is timed. You have to kill every enemy in the room to get to the room with the bomb and destroy it before it blows up, which would give you a game over. imagine that about 10 times and follow it up with the second hardest boss in the game, and youve got a major test of patience on your hands.

    My bottom line is that this game about on line with a 7ish, (im giving it an 8 for nostalgia) but i would recommend the game.    … Expand
  2. Gaz
    Oct 10, 2013
    7
    As this was my very first game ever, I feel like it's being treated unfairly. I loved it as a kid and played it for years after I got it. TheAs this was my very first game ever, I feel like it's being treated unfairly. I loved it as a kid and played it for years after I got it. The story follows the Buzz Lightyear animated series, which was actually pretty good. Buzz himself is voiced by the same person who plays Joe on Family Guy (I recognized it later), and the cast of characters is unique and charming. The game consists of 15 stages that mix action-platforming and racing. Essentially, all levels play out in the same way. Buzz confronts the bad guy at the start of the level and they proceed to run through the level to their get-away spot, which you have to beat them to in order to face them in the final battle. Overall, I felt that the levels were well-designed and the gameplay was solid. The levels are challenging and kept me on my toes. A few levels (such as the ice world) took a while to beat because there were deep chasms through which you could fall to your death. In addition to the regular boss-race mode, there are time trials and XR recovery missions. XR is Buzz's robot partner who always manages to get himself blown up on every mission he goes on. You're tasked with tracking down all his parts in the level to put him back together. Lastly, I found the soundtrack to be very entertaining and catchy. I can still here the boss battle them in the back of my head to this day. Overall, I loved this game as a kid and I'd gladly pick it up again on nostalgia alone. I doubt my opinion of it would change very much if I played it now, because I remember it so fondly from back then. When I had this game, I may not have been able to write a well-constructed review (or anything for that matter), but I had a heck of a good time with it.… Expand
  4. PacMax
    Oct 22, 2018
    7
    This game, while a bit easy, is a nice, comfortable experience, and that is all it needs to be.
  5. Amirhosein2005
    May 15, 2021
    7
    A game based on one of the most popular characters in the toy story ... An acceptable game with standard graphics and fairly hearty gameplay!
  6. runner
    Jan 8, 2017
    6
    Bottom line - not an amazing game, worth a few sittings if you're a Toy Story fan and can bear the antiqueness.

    This game's got a PC port    Bottom line - not an amazing game, worth a few sittings if you're a Toy Story fan and can bear the antiqueness.

    This game's got a PC port as well in which I played and is not mentioned in Metacritic for some reason, but anyway it's pretty identical to the PS version except slightly enhanced graphics.
    This game is obviously not very relevant after about 16 years, but as a Toy Story fan I bothered to play it and will bother to write a review-
    A short one, mind you, as this game doesn't offer that much.

    Surprisingly enough the game ran just fine without much efforts on my laptop, which is not very new but was bought in 2009, which is still modern for this game.

    It's not bad but it lacks substance. It's some sort of a 'racing' game with shooting instead of vehicles and a boss fight in the end. And you do it again. And again. Over and over again. There are three 'modes' or challenge for each level but they all contain a rather similar concept.

    If you like Buzz Lightyear, if you don't mind playing antique games, if you can stand the repetitiveness, you may have SOME fun with this game, for some time.
    It has nothing special about it mostly, in all different aspects of the game, but it offers enough challenge for one to want and finish it, especially if you're a 'completionist', and even though it seems like a kids' game its difficulty is just enough, not too easy yet not too tough. And that's through just about most of the game, until one of the final levels which I found insanely difficult, and which made me ditch the game and leave it be.    … Expand
  7. MichaelF.
    Aug 23, 2002
    0
    It sucks and i mean bad.

Awards & Rankings

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#65 Best PS1 Game of 2000
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#30 Most Discussed PS1 Game of 2000