FINALLY, after all the delays announced by Nintendo, Europe finally gets a release date for Star Fox Command!

Fret no more our Euro fellas, for you'll soon be flying with Fox McCloud as you try to outmaneuver an armada of enemy ships and engage in flight combat. Offering full support for the handheld's wireless feature, the touchscreen, and multiplayer modes, you can battle it out with your friends as you all try to prove which one of you is the best pilot/captain.

The wireless connectivity will allow you to play with up to four of your friends in multiplayer mode while the Wi-Fi connection will let you battle it out with up to three persons from across the globe. Form your own Star Fox team and join forces as you all fight the new threat to the Lylat System.

Star Fox Command is set to zip through European atmosphere on January 26, 2007 and will sell for an estimated retail price of £ 30.

Fox McCloud does it again in Star Fox Command for the Nintendo DS. This time though, he and his cute (but formidable) crew can be played online on multiplayer mode. It's the first time in a while that another game in the Star Fox series has been introduced, and this time, players can connect via LAN or Wi-Fi. A great offer? Yeah, especially for those who think that they won't play another Star Fox game unless there's something new about it.

Despite this new gameplay mode, Star Fox Command kind of goes awry at some points. Sure, there's far more character conflict than in the other Star Fox games, but according to tech writer Matt Slagle, it suffers from "a limited number of turns". Also, you can't possibly understand when the teeny characters talk back because the voices and words are too garbled - in short, the dubbing has been thrown out of the window.

In Star Fox Command, the controls are now far more crisp than the original. The special alterations in the character may or may not sound cool to you (such as Slippy's ship having no lock-on feature), but if you adore the old characters, don't mind a little gibberish, then Star Fox Command with its new online multiplayer mode won't let you down.

Looks like Fox McCloud still has quite a solid following as 20,000 units of Star Fox Command for the DS was sold on its first day of release. It's an impressive showing for the smaller Nintendo franchise and DS owners might just catapult the latest Star Fox game on top of the game charts. The nostalgia factor still plays a big part in the success of the latest installment of the Star Fox series.

Another factor that's been driving up the sales is the first batch of high review ratings from Famitsu and GameBrink. With game critics loving the game, we'd expect the same strong showing of Star Fox Command when it reaches the American shores on August 28.

Star Fox Command's story takes place after the events of Star Fox Assault. The Star Fox team is re-assembled to fight the new threat to the Lylat System. The game features more than 30 missions, multiplayer co-op and competitive game modes - the perfect recipe for a truly engaging handheld game.