This was the first game I bought after my great fallout with the Wii. Did it restore my faith in Nintendo's console? Did it live up to the hype of simply being part of the series?
Story: The story, if youve been under a rock for the last few years, is about a bounty hunter named Samus Aran, who is currently working for the Galactic Federation, a multi species organization created to help foster peace thru out the galaxy. At the beginning of the game space pirates have infected the federations system of biological computers (weird game isnt it) with a virus, and guess what, they have already sent bounty hunters to give all the computers the cure, and of course, they failed and you have to save them. The underlying story is about Samus dealing with being corrupted with phazon, and using it to fight her crazy evil clone that infected her with it.
Gameplay: After the major let down of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, many gamers thought that the third game would not be as good as the first one, well those people are wrong. The back of the box says "Point and aim your Wii Remote to blast your enemies with the best first-person controls ever", that is stretching it, a lot, but it is good as any mouse or analog sticks. Even thou it has made the jump to 3-D, the Prime series still has the same feeling of playing any 2-D metroid game, but sometimes I was completely lost, I would scour the entire area and could not find what to do, but when I looked at a guide on the internet, all I had to do was flip on my scanner. So that gets pretty annoying. One other thing is that, unlike the old 2-D Metroid games, it isnt always so easy to find the weak spot on a boss. But over all, its great.
Presentation: Everyone know that the Wii can not make a game look very realistic, so Nintendo went with a artistic style that is breathtaking, o.k. that is a little of a over statement but they are still very good, and look as good as really almost any other game, on any other console. The thing that really makes this game feel like a Metroid title thou is the music, it is amazing, it gave me a nice nostalgic feeling, while still feeling new.
In closing this game is amazing, got a Wii, buy it. 9.5/10
Story: The story, if youve been under a rock for the last few years, is about a bounty hunter named Samus Aran, who is currently working for the Galactic Federation, a multi species organization created to help foster peace thru out the galaxy. At the beginning of the game space pirates have infected the federations system of biological computers (weird game isnt it) with a virus, and guess what, they have already sent bounty hunters to give all the computers the cure, and of course, they failed and you have to save them. The underlying story is about Samus dealing with being corrupted with phazon, and using it to fight her crazy evil clone that infected her with it.
Gameplay: After the major let down of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, many gamers thought that the third game would not be as good as the first one, well those people are wrong. The back of the box says "Point and aim your Wii Remote to blast your enemies with the best first-person controls ever", that is stretching it, a lot, but it is good as any mouse or analog sticks. Even thou it has made the jump to 3-D, the Prime series still has the same feeling of playing any 2-D metroid game, but sometimes I was completely lost, I would scour the entire area and could not find what to do, but when I looked at a guide on the internet, all I had to do was flip on my scanner. So that gets pretty annoying. One other thing is that, unlike the old 2-D Metroid games, it isnt always so easy to find the weak spot on a boss. But over all, its great.
Presentation: Everyone know that the Wii can not make a game look very realistic, so Nintendo went with a artistic style that is breathtaking, o.k. that is a little of a over statement but they are still very good, and look as good as really almost any other game, on any other console. The thing that really makes this game feel like a Metroid title thou is the music, it is amazing, it gave me a nice nostalgic feeling, while still feeling new.
In closing this game is amazing, got a Wii, buy it. 9.5/10
