Summary
- Starfield's customizable options allow players to recreate iconic spaceships from movies, TV shows, and video games, including the Arwing from Star Fox.
- Bethesda QA staffer Bucky Hoyle built an impressive version of the Arwing in Starfield, capturing its classic design and color scheme.
- While Star Fox fans await a new game in the series, recreating beloved ships like the Arwing in Starfield provides a nostalgic experience.
Starfield lets players build any spaceship they wish, and one Nintendo fan is cruising the universe in the classic Arwing from Star Fox. Bethesda’s latest open-world RPG epic finally lifted off last week, allowing gamers to explore over 1,000 procedurally-generated worlds at their own pace. One of the things Starfield has gained acclaim for is its in-depth customization options, which let players create their own space explorer and vessel to sail across the final frontier.
As it usually goes for games with these kinds of creation tools, players have spent the past week recreating their favorite ships from famous movies, TV shows, and video games in Starfield. While many of these impressive projects are inspired by Star Wars, other noteworthy ships include the Planet Express from Futurama and a space-age version of Batman’s signature Batwing. Now a Starfield player is looking toward one of gaming’s oldest and most beloved sci-fi franchises for their ride of choice, and it is sure to bring a smile to the faces of hardcore Nintendo fans.
Earlier this week, Bethesda QA staffer Bucky Hoyle rebuilt Fox McCloud’s Arwing from the Star Fox games in Starfield, as shown in a series of screenshots shared on the official Starfield Twitter account. Hoyle’s version of the barrel-rolling starfighter is fairly close to the original, sporting its classic blue-and-white paint job and sleek, angular design. Other Twitter users are praising Hoyle’s work in the comments section, with some expressing how it takes them back to their days playing the various Star Fox titles.
Gamers were first introduced to Fox McCloud and his band of anthropomorphic space heroes in the original Star Fox, which launched on the Super NES in 1993 and was lauded for its imaginative-for-the-time 3D flight combat gameplay. While there have been several Star Fox sequels in the years since, the series has grown increasingly scarce over the past decade, with the last mainline entry being Star Fox Zero for the Wii U in 2016. There have been rumors of Star Fox making a Switch comeback, but the game in question was reportedly never even pitched to Nintendo.
While Fox and several other characters from the Star Fox series have at least found a secondary home in the Super Smash Bros. Franchise, it looks like the closest players might get to reliving the high-octane space battles of Star Fox proper will be to recreate classic vehicles like the Arwing in games like Starfield. Bucky Hoyle’s take on the trusty ship does a great job in translating the Arwing’s design to the more realistic setting of Starfield, allowing them and any other player who builds something like it to do barrel rolls in the far reaches of Bethesda’s newest game.
Starfield is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S.