F-Zero GX

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F-Zero GX

System(s): GameCube

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo, Sega, Amusement Vision

Genre: Racing

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2003-07-25^[10]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[11]	DOL-P-GFZJ DOL-GFZJ-JPN
US	2003-08-25	$49.9949.99^[1]^[2]	DOL-P-GFZE DOL-GFZE-USA
US (Player's Choice)	2004		DOL-P-GFZE DOL-GFZE-USA
DE	2003-10-30^[7]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-NOE
DE (Player's Choice)	2004-10-22^[8]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-NOE
ES	2003-10-31^[9]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-ESP
ES (Player's Choice)	2004		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-ESP
FR	2003-10-31^[5]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-FRA
FR (Player's Choice)	2004-10-22^[6]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-FRA
UK	2003-10-31^[3]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-UKV
UK (Player's Choice)	2004-11-05^[4]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-UKV
IT	2003-10-31^[13]		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-ITA
IT (Player's Choice)	2004		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-ITA
AU	2003		DOL-P-GFZP DOL-GFZP-AUS
CA	2003		DOL-P-GFZE DOL-GFZE-USA
KR	2004		DOL-P-GFZE DOL-GFZE-KOR

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F-Zero GX is an entry in Nintendo's F-Zero series of racing games. It was co-developed by Nintendo and Amusement Vision, a subsidiary of Sega, and released in mid-2003 for Nintendo's GameCube platform. It was quickly followed by an arcade counterpart, F-Zero AX, which can communicate with GX through a memory card slot to unlock content.

During development the game was known as F-Zero GC.

Gameplay

Gameplay is largely similar to Nintendo's previous title F-Zero X with a few additions and differences:

Winning Grand Prix give you money for the in-game store.
You can create your own vehicles. Parts are unlocked by beating Grand Prix, and then must be purchased in the store.
Grand Prix are separated into four different cups: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond (must be unlocked), and AX (must be unlocked).
There is now a story mode following Captain Falcon.
Death Race has been removed.
Each pilot has his/her own profile where you can view their back-story and machine.
New pilots and machines are unlocked by purchasing them in the store.

Unlockables

Staff Ghosts are unlocked by coming within 10 seconds of their time in time-trial mode. Afterwards, you must purchase them from the store.
Character specific movies are unlocked by beating any cup on master difficulty with their machine.
F-Zero AX racers are unlocked by beating story modes 1-5 on the very hard difficulty.
The F-Zero AX cup is unlocked by beating all of the Grand Prix on the master difficulty.
Alternatively, you can unlock both of the above via F-Zero AX.
Two special music tracks can be unlocked by inputting cheat codes in the customize menu. Once purchased, simply press while selecting Big Blue or Mute City to have the alternate music play.
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Production credits

Producer: Toshihiro Nagoshi
Director: Hiroyuki Sakamoto
Program Director: Tetsuya Kaku
Course Design Director: Junichi Yamada
Stage Design Director: Daisuke Sato
Motion Design Director: Manabu Tsukamoto
Character Design Director: Sanae Takeda
Programmers: Yoshinori Suzuki, Naohiro Hirao, Yutaka Ito, Kazunori Oyama, Norio Haga, Hirohito Horino, Koji Tokieda, Nobuyuki Miura, Shoji Katsuragawa, Toyo Teramoto
Character & Machine Designers: Toshihiro Fujimaki, Jun Yukawa, Naoki Someya, Michihiko Hatoyama
Stage Designers: Yukio Oda, Kenichiro Yasutomi, Nobuaki Mitake, Mari Sasaki, Miho Nakamura, Hiroki Koike (Avant Inc.), Eiko Takahashi (Avant Inc.)
Motion Designers: Michio Shirako, Kentaro Niina, Takayuki Sorimachi
2D Graphics Designers: Chigaku Fukuhara, Saizo Nagai
Planners: Eigo Kasahara, Takeshi Oguchi
Music: Hidenori Shoji
Music Engineer
- Mixed by: Leftbrown
- Mixed at: Musica Technology Ltd.
Theme Songs for the Characters
- Composed by: Daiki Kasho
- Lyrics by: Alan Bray
Sound Effects: Haruyoshi Tomita
Publicity: Koji Ueda, Masae Ohtoshi
Publicity Designers: Akira Yamanaka, Akiko Yoshizawa
Movie Producer: Yoshimi Fujii
Movie Directors: Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Abe, Shimmei Kawahara
Movie Production: Avant Inc., Digital Media Lab Inc., Wilco Dream Studio Inc., Nice+Day Inc., Nova Inc.
Thanks to: Kazuhiro Izaki, Yukinobu Arikawa, Sakae Osumi

Nintendo

Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Supervisor: Takaya Imamura
Coordinator: Kenshiro Ueda
Publicity: Takeshi Furuta
Project Management: Kenji Miki
Technical Support: Hironobu Kakui, Yoshihito Ikebata
North American Localization: William Barnes, Nathan Bihldorff
Localization Management: Jeff Miller, Leslie Swan
Special Thanks: Naruhisa Kawano, Tadashi Sugiyama, Keizo Ohta, Tatsumi Kimishima, Manabu Fukuda, NOA Product Testing, Super Mario Club
Executive Producer: Satoru Iwata

Source:

In-game credits ^[14]

Magazine articles

Main article: F-Zero GX/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

80

^[16]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[17]

GameNOW (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[18]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

88

^[2]

GMR (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[1]

Hyper (AU)

89

^[19]

NGC Magazine (UK)

NTSC-J

93

^[20]

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK)

PAL

92

^[21]

Nintendo Power (US)

NTSC-U

98

^[22]

N-Zone (DE)

NTSC-J

90

^[23]

N-Zone (DE)

PAL

90

^[24]

The Official Nintendo Magazine (UK)

PAL

92

^[25]

	90
Based on 12 reviews

F-Zero GX

GameCube, US
Cover
Disc

GameCube, US (Player's Choice)
Cover
Disc

GameCube, US (Hollywood Video)
Cover

GameCube, JP
Cover

GameCube, AU
Cover
Disc

GameCube, UK
Cover
Disc

GameCube, UK (Player's Choice)
Cover

GameCube, FR
Cover
Disc

GameCube, FR (Player's Choice)
Cover

GameCube, DE
Cover
Disc

GameCube, DE (Player's Choice)
Cover

GameCube, ES
Cover
Disc

GameCube, ES (Player's Choice)
Cover

GameCube, IT
Cover
Disc

GameCube, IT (Player's Choice)
Cover

GameCube, NL
Cover
Disc

GameCube, CA
Cover

GameCube, KR
Cover

External links

Official website (English)
Official website (Japanese)
Nintendo catalogue pages: US (archive), UK

References

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↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 GamePro, "October 2003" (US; 2003-09-02), page 106
↑ https://archive.is/pPm0r
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk:80/F-Zero-GX-Players-choice/dp/B00030GS9Y (Wayback Machine: 2008-02-11 22:02)
↑ https://archive.is/iJcKX
↑ http://www.amazon.fr:80/Nintendo-F-Zero-GX-Player-Choice/dp/B00068NE5O? (Wayback Machine: 2016-04-01 11:06)
↑ https://archive.is/Jpca0
↑ http://www.amazon.de:80/Nintendo-F-Zero-GX-Players-Choice/dp/B0006B5U58? (Wayback Machine: 2014-07-20 23:16)
↑ https://archive.is/ALa06
↑ http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/before/n2005_b.html (Wayback Machine: 2006-02-07 05:26)
↑ http://f-zero.jp/home.html (Wayback Machine: 2006-02-12 15:18)
↑ http://nintendo.com.au/nintendo/games/index.php?action=search&pagenum=1&sortby=title&platform=&rating=&title=f-zero+gx&releasedate=&genre= (Wayback Machine: 2003-12-09 05:59)
↑ https://archive.is/1raq9
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8vMW4QOOc
↑ GMR, "October 2003" (US; 2003-xx-xx), page 63-65 (63)
↑ Edge, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-03), page 96
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 2003" (US; 2003-09-02), page 158
↑ GameNOW, "October 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 46
↑ Hyper, "October 2003" (AU; 2003-09-03), page 66
↑ NGC Magazine, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-02), page 66
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-12), page 80
↑ Nintendo Power, "October 2003" (US; 2003-xx-xx), page 137
↑ N-Zone, "09/03" (DE; 2003-08-13), page 58
↑ N-Zone, "12/03" (DE; 2003-11-05), page 42
↑ The Official Nintendo Magazine, "March 2006" (UK; 2006-02-16), page 124

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[16] Edge, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-03), page 96

[:File:EGM_US_171.pdf_p158-17] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 2003" (US; 2003-09-02), page 158

[:File:GameNOW_US_24.pdf_p46-18] GameNOW, "October 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 46

[:File:Hyper_AU_120.pdf_p66-19] Hyper, "October 2003" (AU; 2003-09-03), page 66

[:File:NGCMagazine_UK_085.pdf_p66-20] NGC Magazine, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-02), page 66

[:File:NOM_UK_133.pdf_p80-21] Nintendo Official Magazine, "October 2003" (UK; 2003-09-12), page 80

[:File:NintendoPower_US_172.pdf_p137-22] Nintendo Power, "October 2003" (US; 2003-xx-xx), page 137

[:File:NZone_DE_2003-09.pdf_p58-23] N-Zone, "09/03" (DE; 2003-08-13), page 58

[:File:NZone_DE_2003-12.pdf_p42-24] N-Zone, "12/03" (DE; 2003-11-05), page 42

[:File:ONM_UK_001.pdf_p124-25] The Official Nintendo Magazine, "March 2006" (UK; 2006-02-16), page 124

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F-Zero GX

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Contents

Gameplay

Unlockables

Production credits

Magazine articles

Physical scans

External links

References