Fox McCloud is back for more!
General Pepper has fallen ill, and requests that (the now elderly) Peppy Hare take his place. Meanwhile it is discovered that Venom has acid oceans, which are home to the dangerous Anglars. Now the team must save the Lylat system again!
The single player mode is split into thirty map-based combat and Battle combat missions. During map mode you control your Arwings with the stylus. During combat, you move your Arwing by sliding your stylus to the left/right. Bombs are controlled with the touch screen. You may fire the cannons with any button but Start/Select.
Star Fox Command's six-player Wi-Fi mode plays like the Shine Runner mode from Mario Kart DS and the Star Fox 64 multiplayer game. You shoot your friends down for stars.
Star Fox Command has new pilots (Octoman is one of the CPU pilots) and ships, multiple endings, and a new gibberish generator (make your own pilot noises). It also has support for the brand new DS rumble pak.
Command has the largest number of playable characters in any Star Fox game, with a total of fourteen, including Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Krystal, Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare, Wolf O'Donnell, Panther Caroso, Leon Powalski, Slippy's fiancée Amanda, Peppy's daughter Lucy Hare, Bill Grey, Katt Monroe, Andross' grandson Dash Bowman and James McCloud. Andrew Oikonny is one of the game's bosses. Slippy's father Beltino Toad makes an appearance during a mission briefing. ROB 64 is not playable, but pilots the Great Fox when on the map screen. Pigma Dengar appears as a boss in two of Falco's stories. The ghost of Andross, possessing a different bioweapon (Monarch Dodra, Grunner, Killer Bee, or Dune Worm) depending on the mission, appears as a boss on Titania. Octoman, an F-Zero racer, appears as a boss in certain Aquas and Venom missions.