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Best Gamecube Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok. lets get this started, and make this quick. metroid prime---- best gamecube game, and this and zelda Oot are the best games ever. i dont just like this game cuz im a metroid freak, actually i only have this one and the original. at first i was skeptical, but it soon grew on me, and began to take over my life... well at least i beat it so i can move on. this game just has to be played to be believed, and when you do: I GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL LOVE IT. so stop wasting you time here, and BUY METROID NOW!!!!

Not your standard FPS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me say, first and foremost, that if you buy this game wanting a traditional First Person Shooter such as Halo or Goldeneye, you will likely be dissappointed. This is not a normal FPS! It is an adventure game, modeled after previous Metroid games. The fact that it is in first person and you shoot at enemies does not make it a FPS. A Metroid game is about exploration and discovering new areas and hidden passageways, not running around killing everything in sight. If you find that the controls are difficult to use, or there is not enough action, it is probably because you still have it locked in your mind that it is a FPS. I find that the controls become very intuitive over time, although I did have trouble at first, mostly because I had been playing Timesplitters 2 for about a month prior. The other important aspect of a Metroid game is, of course, the bosses. The bosses in Metroid Prime are fantastic! Especially near the end of the game, several bosses (whom I will not name for the sake of those who want it to be a surprise) are absolutely devious, and will take several attempts to defeat, often leaving you with only a sliver of health and no missiles. The replay value in this game is also awesome, with 100 powerups to collect, a huge log book to fill, and an extra surprise when you beat it for the first time, you could be playing for months trying to find everything. And if you do find everything, you will gradually unlock image galleries with concept art and character designs from the game. All in all, I'd have to say this is easily my favorite game ever, and I have played and greatly enjoyed both Metroid and Super Metroid (sadly I haven't had the chance to play Metroid II yet) so if you have a Cube and you don't buy this game, you don't even know what a great game you're missing!

An amazing game in an amazing series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply one of the best games i've ever played. Go buy it RIGHT NOW!!! This is the reason i bought my gamecube. Metroid Prime is just as good as all of the others if not better. The entire Metroid series is great.

Incredible Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Immersive environment, exiting gameplay, great graphics (for back then) and a story that will keep you interested thoughout the whole game. I can really say that this is one game that I can play over and over again, and still feel exited about it. Not a pro review nor in depth what so ever, but if you have heard good things about it, it is all true. Check out the video review by one of Gamespot's former Chief Editor, you will see what I mean.

Must Have for the Gamecube

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even though as i write the review Gamecube's are no long around. Metriod Prime is a must have for the system. Its graphics are good for its generation. Although i will say that there are points in the game when it could use a little speeding up but other than that the game is pretty good and worth taking a look at.

The game to get on Gamecube

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Metroid Prime is easily one of the most Atmespheric games I have ever played. It is the first in the series of a great trilogy of 3D metroid games. When I first saw the 3D look of the game, I expected it to be completley different than what it turned out to be, I expected it to be something like doom, Halo, or a first person shooter along those lines. It turned out to be a completely different genre. I will try and go into detail in telling about about the fantastic game that Metroid prime is.

Gameplay: You Play as the Bounty Hunter Samus Aran. You see the veiw through Samus's visor. This game is not a first person shooter, it is a first person adventure. you start in the frigate Orpheon where you get accustomed to the controls. You will see Samus actually lift or lower her arm when moving the camera which may seem akward the first 10 minutes you play but you see that it makes sense since She is wearing this big suit and does not realy have a neck. After you go through the frigate Orpheon and fight the parasitic queen, the ship will begin a self destruct sequence, in which you must escape. You encounter an old foe on the way out and chase him down to the nerby planet Tallon 1V. You find that the planet is infested by an evil poisen known as phazon, it is Samus's mission to reaquire her equipment, get the 12 artifacts, fight the mercillious space pirates, and discover and destroy the source of the phazon plaging the planet. There is alot of creative puzzle solving similiar to Zelda, as well as jumping like in mario, and some realy exciting action. You will raise bridges, open doors, find secret passages, and much more. The world of tallon 1V is huge. You will travel through the rainy Tallon overworld, the crumbling Chozo ruins, The lava filled magmoor Caverns, the Snow coverd Phanderana Drifts, And the pirate run Phazon mines. The tension builds and builds as you go farther into the ngame to see what excitment lies behind the next corner. The action is also Very Fun and exciting. You simply press the L button to lock on to an enemy ( like in Zelda), and just blast away at them. However the action is not just run and gun shooting, different enemys have different weak spots and some you have to discover their weakness before attacking. The Boss battles are insane, each with different attacks and counters. You also have you morph ball form. rolling into a ball allows you to squeeze through tite surfaces and their are also skateboardingstyle half pipes reach are lots of fun. The morph ball also gets many upgrade, like the boost ball, and spider ball, and also weapon upgrades. The morph ball can set three bombs ata a time, and eventually gets the power bomb which explode large debree. The morph ball is also used creatively in boss battle. The gameplay is just very entertaining and their are few games that compare.

Graphics: When this game came out in 2002 it ose groundbreaking in the visuall department. The textures were very detaild, and the lighting was great, their were huge explosions and jaw dropping envirnments. However bum,p mapping, which some later gamecube games had, was no where to be found, but that is not realy a complaint as it was the best on the console when it came out. The art also is what still makes this game very pleasent to look at. The enemys and bosses, and envirnments are so varied and uniqe. You see drops of rain or smoke come on your visor. Their are also different vizors which show things in different views, like the thermal vizor which lets you see invisible stuff, and the Z ray vizor showing you what is behind a wall, bridgest are made out of tree branches, bugs burow in the durt, and it all runs at 60 frames per second.

sound: Kenji yamamotos score is as moody as you would expect. it has been modernized with catchy techno remixes as well as great sound affects. you can hear a sound when a powerup is nearby. Space pirates grunt, as well as Samus when she takes damage. The phandrana drifts theme will stick in your head for quite a while. The sound affects on the other hand are mostly high quality middy but some of the tracks seem a bit to subtle and even low quality, not many gripes here though.

This game realy shows how to take an established 2D franchise and turn it into 3D. This game is like nthe 3D version of Super metroid, I cannot think of much higher praise than that.

Kinda creepy but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not for little kids who don't like dead things. It's pretty dark and scarey but fun.

No Go!--Too much MOTION SICKNESS!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Look, I have tried to make the best of this but the FIRST PERSON get-up that Nintendo has put into this game doesn't seem to agree with my PERSONAL BIOLOGY! The game itself, although RADICALLY different from what I was anticipating, is so-so. But the first person PERSPECTIVE and all of it's JERKY MOVEMENTS are LITERALLY making me sick! We're talking bad HEADACHES that last for more than an HOUR after about TEN MINUTES of PLAY!

Due to all the MOTION SICKNESS that this game is causing me--it would be almost MASOCHISTIC to keep playing it!

One of the best Gamecube titles ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the most innovative games on the Gamecube. The people that made this game saw what we were getting on the gamecube and were tired of it, which was what most people were feeling too. You hardly ever see shooters on the gamecube. Out of the hundreds of gamecube games, I could probably only name 3, counting this game. So the game developers took a MAJOR chance. And I mean major. No one ever saw a game like this before on the gamecube. Probably the closest thing people saw was Halo. And that actually had a military theme to it.

The graphics are some of the best I've seen on the Gamecube ever. The controls are top notch, although we could do without having to flip through so many visors so fast, like when you fight the last boss, that was just ridiculous. The sound is awesome. The music totally fits the environment, such as the lava caves, or when enemies appear out of nowhere. It also has different music with each enemy, like when the Space pirate jumps out at you, and when the Metroid coems at you, it's different. And when the Metroid is on the same screen as the Space pirate, the music is totally different as well, and not just a mxi of the two tunes. It's different entirely.

The Storyline is not exactly original, but if you played the other Metroid games, then this game reveals some of the questions rasied in the previous games. Also, the story almost keeps you guessing until the end. Really the only complaint I have with this game is the difficulty. The game itself can take you almost months to beat. It's all open world, so you can look at your map (which I might add, isn't an exact replica of the game level, thus making you think!) or you can run around until you find a door and realise "Oh wait! I already went through here!" It's not really bad once you figure out the map. The map really only limits you to where your objective is. It doesn't tell you where to go. Without a guide, it's next to impossible to beat the boss. I played it through without the guide, and I ended up hitting that reload button countless times. You need plenty of missiles to beat the last boss, but without the guide, you only find a few missle upgrades, and so you have nowhere near enough. Sorry this review is kind of long, but I have read several and I've only seen rants about how people waste theor time with this. Truth is, if you don't really have a lot of free time, don't buy it. And if you did buy it and don't have the time to play it, don't make us read about how you are going to burn everything that has the word "Nintendo" on it. Just write a review about how it's time consuming, like what I just did. Anyway, it's a great game, and once again, if you have a lot of spare time on your hands, play it. If you liked Halo, you'll love this.

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