Originally posted by JLRTENJAC
I never played any of them and didn't know there was a differance.
The StarFox games put you in a spaceship (Sometimes a tank or even on foot with weapons), and you try to shoot down enemies and bosses without getting killed yourself. StarFox Adventures, however, played very much like a Zelda game, where it was an adventure/quest on a single planet that you could explore and interact with, solve puzzels, fight bad guys, etc. instead of an old-fasioned shoot'em up.