Beautiful | Metroid Prime

Great way to start out a series | Metroid Prime

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	• Metroid Prime GameCube \| Nintendo, 2002 average customer review:based on 624 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My kids loves this game

My son cannot stop playing this game. After receiving a previous game that would not work on his Game Cube, this one started right up without glitches and he ias finishing his second run at the game.

Beautiful

There aren't too many times when I'd call a video game beautiful, but this is one of them. It's like a work of art that you can explore. Even though it's a bit old now, it's still worth playing.

Great way to start out a series

Will be honest. I started playing this on gamecube, but finally finished it out wii as a part of trilogy. Great game.

PROS.
-BLOW JOUR MIND: The environment, the scene and the experience you get through them is just amazing. I still can't believe that they created such effect using gamecube technology. JUST MARVELOUS.
-Gadgets: Different beams, missles upgrades, suit upgrades, double jump, powerbomb, combo attack, morphball upgrades, grapple beam. JUST AMAZING.
-Story: This is what I like. For those who don't care much about the story, you don't have to read it all. But to those who do, everything will be explained in the FINEST DETAILS. VERY WELL DONE.
-Bosses: Again very creative. The final battles are probably THE MOST CREATIVE in the trilogy.
-Length: Areas are fairly huge. If you go after majority of items which is highly recommended as final bosses can be tough, it will take you a while to explore them all.
-Bonuses: More you explore, more endings you get to uncover. EXTREMELY REWARDING EXPERIENCE.

CONS.
- LOTS OF BACKTRACKING: Without a guide, this can be really irritating. Even with a guide, I hated how you have to back track a lot of areas in the ending.
- Annoying double jumps: Some upgrades require morphball double jumps. Failure to do so will punish you (harshly at times.
-Too many words: Story is really good, but I wish they had more cut scenes.

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Almost Perfect, Save for Glitches

-Pros-

Gorgeous environments

Rich back story ~provided you actually scan the non-action objects and Chozo Lore

Some of the best music I've ever heard in a game

Very immersive gameplay; you really get a tangible sense of isolation

Combat with the lock-on targeting is much more fun than the point and click format for FPS games in my opinion, and works better on consoles.

Puzzles were very fun, and made you think without being too challenging

Bosses were fun to fight and most weren't very hard

The beam weapons' use in puzzles

Rehash of Metroid and Super Metroid items

MORPH BALL! (Ha, I love it!)

-Cons-

A bit on the easy side, and it can be completed in under 2 hours if you try

Major glitches. Secret Worlds and sequence breaks for the most part, the individual techniques are below:

Rapid fire missiles. If you don't know what that tech is, it lets you fire missiles almost as fast as power beam shots

The L-Lock Spring Space Jump (It makes the purposefully difficult jumps easy, and accessing currently inaccessible areas easy)

Scan Dash Jump

Ghetto Jumping

Triple Bomb Jump

Instant Unmorph Space Jump

Meta Ridley Boost Ball glitch

All in all, if you don't even learn about the glitches, don't look up how to do them, the game is an amazingly memorable experience, and shouldn't be missed. You won't regret buying it. If you want a less glitchy more stable version of the game, I recommend a newer copy of the disc. The original production discs had problems, not the least of which being that certain rooms would sometimes freeze the game.

Even with its flaws, this is still one of my all time favorite games.

Overview:

Gameplay- 98/100
Visual- 100/100
Audio- 100/100
Story- 90/100

Total - 97/100

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Metroid Prime takes you back to the dark & claustrophobic world of the Metroids -- they've mutated into an evil more powerful form and Samus Aran is sent to stop them! Runs in progressive scan mode and supports Dolby Pro Logic II, for better picture and sound on your home thater system