F-Zero Wii AKA F-Zero Z said to be announced at E3

21 June 2008

Posted by:Ferry

F-Zero Grand Prix in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii
A new F-Zero Wii game is said to be unveiled by Nintendo at the E3 Summit 2008 on July 15-17th, currently it’s codenamed F-Zero Z. Expect the racing game to have been developed internally at Nintendo; Since Shigeru Miyamoto commented that the past F-Zero and Star Fox collaborations with outside development houses (in F-Zero GX & AX’s case Sega) turned out to be a disappointment for Nintendo. To quote him: “consumers got very excited about the idea of those games, but the games themselves did not deliver”.

Features for F-Zero Wii include:
* All the tracks from F-Zero GX.
* An online multiplayer mode.
* “A weapon system has also been confirmed,” according to German website NintendoPlanet who leaked the news a while back.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said a few months ago that the line-up for the second half of 2008 had yet to be announced, but things would be changing soon. To quote: “There’s gonna be a big game for the holiday that gamers will want. All I can tell you is what [lineup of games] we announce during E3 is gonna be fantastic. The gamer is gonna be excited and the expanded audience is gonna be excited.”

Nintendo themselves keep dropping references to F-Zero in their most popular games. In the above screenshot you can see F-Zero Grand Prix is a special stage that appears in Adventure Mode and Event 33: Lethal Marathon of the Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, not surprising with Captain Falcon being a series regular. A similar cameo appears in Mario Kart Wii, where you can select F-Zero’s Blue Falcon as a kart. Watch the unlockable here:

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wtf

There was nothing wrong with F Zero for the cube noob. Cant say the same about starfox.
Robot

The weapon crap was a hoax! a late April fool joke!
http://www.videogamesblogger.com supadupagama

wtf: You do realize you just called Shigeru Miyamoto a noob? Haha, I swear fanboys can be so shortsighted when they think you’re the one insulting their favorite game. I guess you were aiming it at me, but I personally like F-Zero GX, played it for a long time on the GameCube.

Robot: Is there such a thing as a belated April fools joke? I don’t see that happening unless it’s from a magazine, which it’s not. The news wasn’t altered later on to reflect that either.
RoyalRook

A weapon system would destroy everything that I loved about F-Zero.
anonymous

you people are so dumb, that german site was WRONG it was a HOAX! theres no weapon system and it doesnt have all the tracks from GX and such, update your info that happened 2 months ago you stupid site!!!
Michael Cortez

wait so is the entire game a hoax or just that weapon site? i personally loved f-zero for snes,gcube
rx7

I hope there isnt a weapon system. I dont want another mario kart….
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chuckthefck

Fzero GX and AX is some of the most exiting
racing there is.

long live speed !!!

(no weapons ever.)