Metroid Prime review

Metroid Prime took one of the biggest risk this side of making Legend of Zelda cel-shaded. It was in a first-person shooter!!!! All the previous games were third-person shooters WOOOAAAAHHH!!!! But it was this risk that made sense to re-introduce Metroid cause the last game, Super Metroid, was released a measly 8 years before Prime. Was it worth the wait? Let's find out.

Graphics - The graphics here are beautiful especially for a GameCube game. They're smooth and the few cinematics are pretty good. Also, it's not a game that will make my GameCube explode(I'm looking at you Eternal Darkness) with it's loads and cinematics. And Samus really looks good...not in that way you pervs! She controls great and she has action poses that look good. But the enviromental effects on the visor is what sold me. When it rains you see the drops coming down, when you have steam it takes a couple seconds to dissipitate and when you see a bright light you see Samus's eyes reflected though the visor that kinda makes it creepy but cool.

Story - Of course the story isn't going to be great. None of the others techinically are apart from Metroid II, that story is Rambo but with Metroids so I'll eventually play that cause it sounds awesome. Anyways, back to Prime's story...there is an effort to do more than "Kill stuff to advance" but it doesn't make much sense in context. It starts off fine when you answer a distress call, kill things, meet up with Ridley and escape the ship just before it explodes. Then you have to chase Ridley into a planet and then you walk around & find things. Here's my problem, you just stumble on those things and they are important plot-related things. Finding weapons I can deal with, anything to help me kick some ass in a more efficient way but the artifacts? You just find them and you just find where you put them and then Ridley shows up and you finish the job and what not. Yeah I may be too hard on the story cause the rest weren't that great but more effort leads to more risk that leads to more criticism if necessary.

Overall - This game is almost the best possible Metroid game to re-introduce the series to people cause it does kick ass. The fights you have with the Space Pirates give a good dose of adrenaline and the worlds do have enough stuff to make backtracking less of a chore than it could have been. The only reason I saw almost the best possible game is cause of the very weak plot...but weak plots haven't stopped the other Metroid games before so this doesn't stop this Metroid game either.

9/10