Metroid Prime (GC)

I waited 8 lonnggggg years for this but it's finally came back! Metroid Prime for the Nintendo GameCube is a huge update to the legendary Nes and Snes games. In it Bounty Hunter Samus Aran returns to fight the evil Space Pirates of the galaxy again but now this Metroid game is completely 3D and the view is almost always First Person Shooter now like in other games a Halo, Quake, Goldeneye. Weird but true. Metroid Prime is filled with spectacular graphics, familiar sounds, and the same good old gameplay that made the originals such great games, but is this really one of the best GameCube games out there or is this game one big 3D disappointment? After the last ...  Read the complete review

It was at E3 in 2001 when people started to worry about this game. Shigeru Miyamoto himself stated that there would be no demonstration of the game due to ?personal concerns? and that the game would have to go through re-evaluation. However in 2002 the latest screenshots and test plays showed signs of it being a truly great game. Now people are claiming it to be the best game on the GameCube yet. Metroid Prime is the new addition to the popular Metroid series. While it was never that big in its home territory of Japan the Western gamers lapped up the adventures of the bounty hunter Samus Aran. ...  Read the complete review

Retro Studios, the developer behind 'Metroid Prime', was having a difficult time before the release of this game, the company torn apart by redundancies, release date delays and the scrapping of projects, mostly due to harassment by the perfectionist zealots we know (and love) as Nintendo. For a long time the future of 'Metroid Prime' was uncertain: early screenshots of the game were impressive, but it was unsure if the gameplay would come up to scratch, and do justice to the original 'Metroid' game and the classic 'Super Metroid' on the SNES. Things seemed to change when ...  Read the complete review

Metroid Prime is the best shooter game to appear on the gamecube. Well one of them. you folow the story of Samus Arun and start off super powered bounty hunter, just after you start the game a little way in you loose your powers, have to get loads of them back while on a foreign planet and trying to get back at her old enemy Ridley. In game you have a scan mode using which you can find all kinds of information dotted around the game environments or new grapple points and other things of interest. This is one the interesting things in game and also a cool idea, you can scan enemies to get all the details on it, and on bosses you can kelp find weak points with ...  Read the complete review

Metroid Prime is a shooter for the Gamecube developed by Nintendo. The game follows the bounty hunter Samus Aran she starts out investigating a distress call of a Space Pirate ship and soon finds her old foe Ridley who has transformed in to Meta Ridley, you then follow after Ridley as he takes off and enters the Chozo ruins where Samus is able to discover more about her own race the Chozo. The actual storyline itself isn't very rich but there is a lot of detail and information to learn about your enemies and Samus herself. The way you unfold the story is largely down to yourself, which is initially a bit strange as usually games have cutscenes that ...  Read the complete review