Best of the Best
I came upon this newest installment never playing either of the metroid metroid prime camecube prequels to this game, and really i couldnt be happier. Metroid Prime 3 gives you enough story to really feel even though you hadent played the other two, that you really havent missed much. It makes you feel so much like your part of Samus's world and makes you really want to stay.
Now alot of scpetics are saying metroid platforming on the Wii?!?!?!? I could never!!!! But wait, you have to give it a chance, truly its a marvel of controls and uses the Wii-mote to best suit. pointing and taking down your foes or pointing that jump to the perfect angle you reuire is so simplistic and natral with the remote. They did something right for sure.
The only possible fault you can find here is the slight issue i found with having jump as B and Shoot as A. For those of you that dont know that means the wii trigger is jump while the will top button, used for selections on the hub is shoot. Of course this is changeable if you need too but playing with this scheme does feel a bit wierd and can get confussing when used to shooters and your jumping at your target rather than blasting them away.
graphically metroid prime does not upset. Every realm from the large and complex sky world down the to firery mechanical marvel aptly named Brio, all have looks that just add to the enjoyment. Creatures and bosses al sport beutiful models that can sometimes make it hard to want to blow them up with your ice missle (just kidding). No matter where you go the graphics are so colourful and dare I say surpass what you might see on the 360 and PS3. Of course I'm not saying graphics arent good and things like Gear of War and Dirt dont bring something to the table. But mainly when we look at next gen games they look good but are very gray washed and dark to give this better looking style. This metroid game takes colour and makes it vibrant and strong again, really showing what the Wii can do and makes me even more excited for wat the better consols can accomlish with similar colouring style.
laslty I want to talk about the story and some of the few weapons and suits. So In MP3 expect alot of returning faces from the previous games, even a few characters it seems from hunters have appeared. Basically in this game you as Samus are hired to help the Human Forces as they attempt to end the war against those Evil space pirates, and of course that pain in the butt Dark Samus is back again to try and ruin the day now by using phazon. Phazon becomes your powerup and essentially the equivalent to uber charged attacks, coming in many forms and being used in many ways. Basically once you attain phazon your mission is to fight the bad guys and avoid leeting the phazon corrupt you. Just dont overload.
And of course with the items and suits alot are back. Your strong suit to allow you to traverse those molten liquids is back, along with a newer one to allow you to avoid acids, both with thier own style and look and of course phazon attacments. Your gun gets a good number of upgrades from the phazon to a plasma cannon. And of course morph ball, which get those good old bombs and a speed boost. You can also act like a magnet later but I'll leave that to your own play time.
So in final looks, youve got a great story, impressive graphics, controls that make you want more shooters for the wii, and of course enough platfrm metroid you could ask for. I say this is by far one of the games of the year.
Congrats Nintendo, and keep it up.