While this is Rare, its not Rare as you may know them. A lot of the talent left a long time ago and started Free Radical, these were the people who brought you hits like Golden Eye on the N64 they went on and made the Golden Eye type game Time Splitters, others left and formed Eighth Wonder ( now defunct ). Starfox Adventure was the last game Rare made for Nintendo before their Nintendo shares, which were just under half the company, were purchased by Microsoft for about $375million . Later the Stamper Brothers who were the people who started "Ultimate play the game" ( Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac, Jetpac etc ) and were in charge of the company through most of its Rare days left. They have made quite a few games for Microsoft Studios since their Nintendo days, but its debateable if they have eared the money back Microsoft paid for them. Originally Microsoft said they would not be supporting any Nintendo platforms, including the GBA and NDS as they were interested I'm making they own handheld, this soon changed when Sony made the PSP and Microsoft seemed to drop the idea of a handheld. I still like Rare and sometimes they seem to have these sparks of creative genius even now. I am looking forward to sitting down with this and seeing how it plays.