Metroid Prime (GC) Reviews

Metroid Prime (GC) Gamecube Game

Product Type: other Gamecube games

Description:"Adventure game 1st- and 3rd-person-perspective action. Roll up into a ball to negotiate tight spots. Old-school weapons like the grapple beam; wave beam; and the free beam."

Newest Review: ... few cut scenes. samus must find out what is happening herself, by scanning the hieroglyphs of the Chozo and the logs of the ... more

 ... Pirates. You will spend most of the game with your scan visor, exploring the world for this lore that provides clues for where to go and what to do. This scan visor also tells you about the various monsters you encounter but also about the peaceful organisms of Tallon IV. This information is well written, and reveals this world to you. Retro Studios have designed a full, living, breathing world, and are letting you explore it freely. It is non-linear (well, progress is linear, but you can re-visit regions freely). Spen...more

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Customer Metroid Prime (GC) Reviews (11)

StarSoldier1
Crowned ReviewMetroid Prime (GC): 8 years.... 8 F'N YEARS! (1669 words)
by - written on 12/08/07 (Very useful, 77 readings)
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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

3rd+Rock+Satan
Crowned ReviewSuper Metroid (2067 words)
by - written on 18/05/04, updated on  03/12/04 (Very useful, 203 readings)
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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

CC86
Crowned ReviewMetroid Prime (GC): A Prime Example of the Nintendo Difference (1303 words)
by - written on 23/04/04, updated on  23/04/04 (Very useful, 170 readings)
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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

loadedluke
Wii version review: Prime is a winner (1101 words)
by - written on 29/12/09 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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*This review is about the Prime Trilogy version of Metroid on the Wii, which uses motion control* Metroid Prime was originally released in 2002 for the Gamecube, but was re-released as part of the 2009 Prime Trilogy pack, which combined all three games. The great value package updated the first two installments with the innovative motion controls utilised in Corruption along with improved graphics. I had not played the original Gamecube version, nor had i ever played a metroid game before, so this was my first exposure to the universe of the bounty hunter, Samus Aran. I was instantly enthralled by the games smooth controls, immersive story and ...  Read the complete review

anaguma_kun
Metroid Prime (GC): Best single player shooter on cube (387 words)
by - written on 19/09/09 (Very useful, 11 readings)
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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

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