Metroid Prime

I purchased a Gamecube just 2 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 & atmosphere. Fantastic sound & music, with some re-worked themes from classic Metroid titles. Good replay value due 2 higher difficulty settings & 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 & puzzle-solving, with a healthy does of combat 2 keep you on your toes.

In my opinion, a must-own 4 Gamecube fans.

I could play this game over & over. The evrironments in this game are breath taking. The weapons & boss battles are fun as ever. This game will be around 4 a long time.

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 2 be completley different than what it turned out 2 be, I expected it 2 be something like doom, Halo, or a first person shooter along those lines. It turned out 2 be a completely different genre. I will try & 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 2 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 & does not realy have a neck. After you go through the frigate Orpheon & 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 & chase him down 2 the nerby planet Tallon 1V. You find that the planet is infested by an evil poisen known as phazon, it is Samus's mission 2 reaquire her equipment, get the 12 artifacts, fight the mercillious space pirates, & discover & destroy the source of the phazon plaging the planet. There is alot of creative puzzle solving similiar 2 Zelda, as well as jumping like in mario, & some realy exciting action. You will raise bridges, open doors, find secret passages, & 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 & builds as you go farther into the ngame 2 see what excitment lies behind the next corner. The action is also Very Fun & exciting. You simply press the L button 2 lock on 2 an enemy ( like in Zelda), & just blast away at them. However the action is not just run & gun shooting, different enemys have different weak spots & some you have 2 discover their weakness before attacking. The Boss battles are insane, each with different attacks & counters. You also have you morph ball form. rolling into a ball allows you 2 squeeze through tite surfaces & their are also skateboardingstyle half pipes reach are lots of fun. The morph ball also gets many upgrade, like the boost ball, & spider ball, & also weapon upgrades. The morph ball can set three bombs ata a time, & 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 & 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, & the lighting was great, their were huge explosions & jaw dropping envirnments. However bum,p mapping, which some later gamecube games had, was no where 2 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 2 look at. The enemys & bosses, & envirnments are so varied & 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, & the Z ray vizor showing you what is behind a wall, bridgest are made out of tree branches, bugs burow in the durt, & 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 4 quite a while. The sound affects on the other hand are mostly high quality middy but some of the tracks seem a bit 2 subtle & even low quality, not many gripes here though.

This game realy shows how 2 take an established 2D franchise & turn it into 3D. This game is like nthe 3D version of Super metroid, I cannot think of much higher praise than that.

Not 4 little kids who don't like dead things. It's pretty dark & scarey but fun.

Look, I have tried 2 make the best of this but the FIRST PERSON get-up that Nintendo has put into this game doesn't seem 2 agree with my PERSONAL BIOLOGY! The game itself, although RADICALLY different from what I was anticipating, is so-so. But the first person PERSPECTIVE & all of it's JERKY MOVEMENTS are LITERALLY making me sick! We're talking bad HEADACHES that last 4 more than an HOUR after about TEN MINUTES of PLAY!

Due 2 all the MOTION SICKNESS that this game is causing me--it would be almost MASOCHISTIC 2 keep playing it!

For legions of Metroid fans, Samus Aran is a true hero. Gamers old enough 2 remember the original Metroid will never forget their surprise when learning that the armored character they had been controlling 4 days on end was actually a woman! Of course, you were only let in on the secret if you were able 2 beat the game in less than three hours -- no easy task. The original Metroid premiered on the original NES in Au