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| Addiction Level | 8/10   |
|---|---|
| Graphics | 9.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 8.3/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 8.7/10 |
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10 |
By wallcrawler
on 4th May 2004
| Addiction Level | 10/10 |
|---|---|
| Graphics | 10/10 |
| Multi-player | No |
| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 wallcrawler's recommendation | |
The first perfect videogame outside the Zelda series.
Power bombs and the grapple beam appear too late.
This is the only game apart from Zelda: Ocarina Of Time to be perfect. Metroid started out as a side-scrolling exploration shooter-platformer. Anyone who loves Metroid as much as I do will at first be slightly put out when they find out that this game looks like a First-Person-Shooter. But it's not. You can't classify Metroid Prime in any known category, IT JUST DOESN'T GO. Read on...
Metroid Prime is all about immersing the player in a gaming world. You start off and in a few minutes almost all your abilities get stripped away and all you have is a big car cigarette lighter strapped to your arm and you have to get back on your feet. No other game even comes close to the feelings of isolation. The graphics are like none other, the sound rules, and the amount of imagination is simply embarrassing. The best weapon is the Plasma beam, which sets opponents on fire, but everything is used in this game.
The focus is on exploration, so there is a lot of backtracking, but you always have a new item to use, so it never gets boring. Some of the items may appear a little late, but that is the only fault, and if you're patient this is no fault. You have a GameCube, buy this. You don't, invest in one for this. Trust me.
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Total Respect: +1
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