From the looks of it.. would it really need to be star fox? Redesign the ships a little bit, and then be safe from nintendo lawsuit? :>

How do they thinks they are going to get away with this?

Do a ba......eh nevermind.

@Chronic Logic: Exactly what I've been saying (Re: Chrono Trigger 3D Remake)...

If you finish and release, then there's no C&D on development, only on distribution -- and then you simply stop distributing it. We all know how the internet works, so as soon as it gets into someone's hands outside of the dev team, the shit will spread like a virus. I doubt that most of these companies would invest the time and money going after the creators of the fan-made release, since they probably don't have much to take anyways. At worst I would expect the content to be seized and, again, if it's already on the 'net, it's a done deal.

It's important to get feedback from the Internet community. After six years of development, generating a little excitement (which in turn becomes motivation) isn't unreasonable. It does, however, nearly guarantee that a C&D will be issued, and the six years it took to make that trailer will have been completely wasted (excluding the development experience). I guess these people will never learn, and we will just keep drooling over shit we'll never get to play.

It does look pretty badass, though...

Seriously. I never understood the point of that.

It's like, the girl of your dreams decided go on one date with you after your constant pursuit, and you go around telling everyone who ever exists, including her Mom, Dad, and best friend, how you're going to fuck her.

@atastysammich:: I would hope that after six years they are past the halfway point. : )~ Regardless, I'm not holding my breath for this one (or the Zelda remakes either).

Well there's another imminent cease and desist.

Well now its been reported on a gaming blog site its going to get shutdown - great. But then again you should know better than to use other peoples licenced IP.

Call it Nova Ferret or something and change the designs enough to make Ninty leave it alone, then you can release a special 'mod' through a separate website that changes all the textures and models back :).

Nintendo should track these people, and when found, kneel before them and offer them a proper contract and tools to work with. It's amazing to think what inspired fans give us while Nintendo fails to bring

@The Prodigal Son & Chronic Logic: Thirding that thought, it's incredible projects keep sabotaging themselves this way.

Just want to point out what I always point out when people complain about Star Fox Adventures: it was originally supposed to be a game called Dinosaur Planet by Rare for the N64, When Rare moved the game to Gamecube, Nintendo noticed that the main character was a fox and made Rare change the character to Fox McCloud, slapping on the Star Fox license in the process in a rather last-minute effort. The game is still well-polished, but you can note the slapped on license quite easily: Fox is given a poor explanation for why he can't use his blaster (then receiving a staff that...shoots blaster bullets basically), classic Star Fox levels are awkwardly placed between the rest of the game, and just when you're supposed to fight General Scales in the final boss battle, Andross literally appears out of nowhere, kill him, and spouts some nonsense about destroying the Lylat System (after being nowhere the entire game).

So honestly, it's best to just treat Star Fox Adventures as a separate game with an unfortunate license and not go complaining about how it's not a true sequel every time - because it's not.

Thanks for this story, Hamza. This is the first I've heard of this fan project and I'm a huge fan of the first two games of the series.

I do believe Starfox is Nintendo's most neglected and mismanaged IP. Between the re-skinning of Dinosaur Planet to the on-foot mission centric Assault(at least Mother games were good, if not released stateside other than Earthbound), Nintendo is going to be shown up by a fan project. Which is why I'm affraid they will C & D it if possible.

I'm thinking that developers should hire people like these.

I really hope Nintendo doesn't crush this into oblivion, as I could definitely see myself playing the crap out of it.

I agree with Necros: Star Fox Adventures is not a sequel, nor is the other Star Fox Assault...this is more of a true sequel and I, for one, will download it the minute its released.

I just hope this project gets finished and leaked into the internet before Nintendo has any say. Companies really should actively hire these people, though.

They should drop the IP stealing and make an original game with that talent. Even if it pisses some people off, Nintendo have all the right to shut down the project once they find about it. Starfox is their IP and even if you feel it's underused, it's still theirs.

I've been following this for a couple of years. Development has been slooooooooooooow.

Freespace 2 is the best space sim out there though. Yeah. Just installed it 2 days ago with all the goodies the SCP adds to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VhyMzu12c

Looks really pretty...

So, can I count on it not running on my machine?:(

Well, if Nintendo, et al, let There Will Be Brawl continue without a hitch, I don't see how this game will be any different, unless they start selling it. THEN comes problems.

Asshole lawsuit coming in 5...4...3...

Count down to shut down.

People really need to stop stealing other peoples property's.

@EdgyDude: Exactly what I thought about the Mother 3 fan-translation...

This is so going to get FOXed. Har har.

While I don't agree with hpv in the slightest that this looks bad (especially given the WORK IN PROGRESS disclaimer at the beginning), I totally agree that it's retarded for these fan made projects to keep blowing their wads before their project is completed and in the wild. That's like painting a giant "HEY PLEASE SHUT US DOWN NOW!!!" bull's eye on their backs.

Or, you know, they could just make something original and this wouldn't even be an issue in the first place.

Original projects are made all the time using the Freespace 2 engine. The SCP is basically the most prolific engine used in the (still surviving) space sim community today. This is just one of numerous mods being developed.

Shadows of Lylat dropped off the face of the earth a few years back and I never heard anything from them until this announcement was made a few days ago. Looks pretty great though, definitely the most visually intensive SCP game I've seen yet.

Everyone just needs to STFU and stop complaining and be happy someone's going to the effort instead of thinking it will get shut down.