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Metroid Prime Review
User Submitted Metroid Prime Reviews
Date: 2008-10-16
An All-Time Great
I purchased a Gamecube just to play Metroid Prime. If I had never played any other game, it still would have been well worth it.
Great graphics, crisp controls. Excellent level design and atmosphere. Fantastic sound and music, with some re-worked themes from classic Metroid titles. Good replay value due to higher difficulty settings and the challange of finding all possible items/upgrades.
Although the control scheme classifies this as a First Person Shooter, this game is primarily about exploration and puzzle-solving, with a healthy does of combat to keep you on your toes.
In my opinion, a must-own for Gamecube fans.
Date: 2008-09-29
One of the Best Games on the Gamecube
I could play this game over and over. The evrironments in this game are breath taking. The weapons and boss battles are fun as ever. This game will be around for a long time.
Date: 2008-08-31
The game to get on Gamecube
Metroid Prime is easily one of the most Atmespheric games I have ever played. It is the first in the series of a great trilogy of 3D metroid games. When I first saw the 3D look of the game, I expected it to be completley different than what it turned out to be, I expected it to be something like doom, Halo, or a first person shooter along those lines. It turned out to be a completely different genre. I will try and go into detail in telling about about the fantastic game that Metroid prime is.
Gameplay: You Play as the Bounty Hunter Samus Aran. You see the veiw through Samus's visor. This game is not a first person shooter, it is a first person adventure. you start in the frigate Orpheon where you get accustomed to the controls. You will see Samus actually lift or lower her arm when moving the camera which may seem akward the first 10 minutes you play but you see that it makes sense since She is wearing this big suit and does not realy have a neck. After you go through the frigate Orpheon and fight the parasitic queen, the ship will begin a self destruct sequence, in which you must escape. You encounter an old foe on the way out and chase him down to the nerby planet Tallon 1V. You find that the planet is infested by an evil poisen known as phazon, it is Samus's mission to reaquire her equipment, get the 12 artifacts, fight the mercillious space pirates, and discover and destroy the source of the phazon plaging the planet. There is alot of creative puzzle solving similiar to Zelda, as well as jumping like in mario, and some realy exciting action. You will raise bridges, open doors, find secret passages, and much more. The world of tallon 1V is huge. You will travel through the rainy Tallon overworld, the crumbling Chozo ruins, The lava filled magmoor Caverns, the Snow coverd Phanderana Drifts, And the pirate run Phazon mines. The tension builds and builds as you go farther into the ngame to see what excitment lies behind the next corner. The action is also Very Fun and exciting. You simply press the L button to lock on to an enemy ( like in Zelda), and just blast away at them. However the action is not just run and gun shooting, different enemys have different weak spots and some you have to discover their weakness before attacking. The Boss battles are insane, each with different attacks and counters. You also have you morph ball form. rolling into a ball allows you to squeeze through tite surfaces and their are also skateboardingstyle half pipes reach are lots of fun. The morph ball also gets many upgrade, like the boost ball, and spider ball, and also weapon upgrades. The morph ball can set three bombs ata a time, and eventually gets the power bomb which explode large debree. The morph ball is also used creatively in boss battle. The gameplay is just very entertaining and their are few games that compare.
Graphics: When this game came out in 2002 it ose groundbreaking in the visuall department. The textures were very detaild, and the lighting was great, their were huge explosions and jaw dropping envirnments. However bum,p mapping, which some later gamecube games had, was no where to be found, but that is not realy a complaint as it was the best on the console when it came out. The art also is what still makes this game very pleasent to look at. The enemys and bosses, and envirnments are so varied and uniqe. You see drops of rain or smoke come on your visor. Their are also different vizors which show things in different views, like the thermal vizor which lets you see invisible stuff, and the Z ray vizor showing you what is behind a wall, bridgest are made out of tree branches, bugs burow in the durt, and it all runs at 60 frames per second.
sound: Kenji yamamotos score is as moody as you would expect. it has been modernized with catchy techno remixes as well as great sound affects. you can hear a sound when a powerup is nearby. Space pirates grunt, as well as Samus when she takes damage. The phandrana drifts theme will stick in your head for quite a while. The sound affects on the other hand are mostly high quality middy but some of the tracks seem a bit to subtle and even low quality, not many gripes here though.
This game realy shows how to take an established 2D franchise and turn it into 3D. This game is like nthe 3D version of Super metroid, I cannot think of much higher praise than that.
Date: 2008-08-10
Kinda creepy but fun
Not for little kids who don't like dead things. It's pretty dark and scarey but fun.
Date: 2008-08-07
No Go!--Too much MOTION SICKNESS!
Look, I have tried to make the best of this but the FIRST PERSON get-up that Nintendo has put into this game doesn't seem to agree with my PERSONAL BIOLOGY! The game itself, although RADICALLY different from what I was anticipating, is so-so. But the first person PERSPECTIVE and all of it's JERKY MOVEMENTS are LITERALLY making me sick! We're talking bad HEADACHES that last for more than an HOUR after about TEN MINUTES of PLAY!
Due to all the MOTION SICKNESS that this game is causing me--it would be almost MASOCHISTIC to keep playing it!
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