Metroid Prime (GC) Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If asked to list the all-time greatest games of the 8-bit era, your response would undoubtedly include The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and Castlevania. Of course, if you're a gamer worth your salt you'd also include the classic adventure game Metroid, one of the most influential games of its time. Released in 1986, the original ...

Metroid Prime is a must have game, with very high ratings from magazines and other noticeable sources it truely lives up to its name. The game is a first person shoot em up and is set in the distant future, where all humans have been wiped out and all hope depends on one human life that was lost in space. Survived in a hi-tech ...

One of The Gamecube Greats - Advantages: Good Graphics, Long Gameplay, Great action clips and movies - Disadvantages: Controls, Audio

Well well...if it isn't Samus once again, returning to the small screen a decade after her debut. Only this time, bigger, 3D, and better than ever (so to speak). Even though at first Metroid was never too keen to my eyes, this one certainly got my attention while watching a kid that came up to my waist give his best attempt at playing it at a ...

Good! - Advantages: Good Graphics, Good Sound, Good Story - Disadvantages: Alot of backtracking, repetitive

You know the best way to describe Metroid Prime is that of an Adult Zelda in first person with far more shooting and jumping… so nothing like you’ve ever played before. After receiving a distress signal Samus visits a space station, finding the station overrun with baddies Samus must research what’s happened and if there is any ...