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Sorry Master Cheese Samus kicks your ***

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metroid Prime 2 is amazing. Multiplayer is going to be da bomb.
I dont have the game but am hoping to get it. I dont have an XBox only ps2 and gc so i dont have halo 2.(...). and nintendo has got an impressive game.

Samus was truly meant to be in 3D

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

what can I say... Nintendo has done it again. While many other manufacturers depend on sex and over the top violence to sell games, nintendo gives you true talent in the form of creative gaming... pushing the envelope further without tearing it open

Warning...Warning... Game Over

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

By the title you can tell the main point of this review, to explai the game AND THE DIFFICULTY. This game assumes you have played and beaten the first one and that you already know the controls. It mostly just throws you into the game. It starts off a bit slow, but dosn't take long to pick up. You pick p the Light and Dark beams quite quickly and space pirates show up much sooner. Metroids too. This is a great game but it WILL challenge you. Some bosses *Boost Guardian! Arg!* can seem nearly impossible and can leave you with Samus dying and your fist in the middle or through the other side of a wall nearest you. Other than this it's a darn-cool game and unlike past Metroids, has a decent+ storyline.

An improvement over Prime, but I want to see Samus again!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First, what don't I like:

I can't tell you how much I hate first person shooter. First of all, did you notice the aspect of the game, really, Samus is about 3 feet tall. I feel like I'm walking on my knees, everything is at ground level and it drives me nuts. Next, I love morphing into a ball because it's the only time I can actually see what's going on! Remember about 20 years ago race car games in arcades started to give you the option of four or five aspects, everything from the windshield view, to just the front of the car to then entire vehicle. Why? Why? Can't they do that with metroid???

I also miss the jumping! Samus is supposed to jump high and use the screw attack, this Samus barely gets off the ground, it's like a fat-person playing hopscotch. You jump slow, you come down hard (CLANK!!!) so your three-feet tall, you weigh a thousand pounds and you're saving the planet from some threat that might possibly come someday....

Now, what did I like:

Huge improvement in control over first Metroid Prime. Firing is more accurate and movement is cleaner, jumping is much more forgiving and not so tedious. I like the graphics, but some contrast would have been nice, each area seems to be all shades of one color and that's kind of boring. Some real 5.1 sound would be good, but the dolby digital is impressive (try a high-def tv and 5.1 system with bass up in a dark room if you want full effect.) This game is not a mind numbingly hard as the first. I can actually fight enemies in this one without screaming. I do hate that you die and have to do entire areas over and over just to get back to the boss enemy. Also, we are still on cons here, I don't like the "let you open a few doors at a time" crap. If these idiot aliens want me to save the freaking universe then they should give me the keys to all the damned doors strait away.

This game is very, very liner compared to Prime 1, a pro that it's less frustrating, a con in that you are limited to completing each task as they come.

Oddly enough I still really enjoy it, it has more of a feel like the original and GBA games (play the GBA games, they are much more fun!) and the emersion into the alien world feels complete, if limited.

The longest night of metroid

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I got my hands on the original Metroid and it took me 20 hours to complete I was ecstatic. I love it when a game really earns my money in its length, and the sequel definitely earned my $50 as well, but there is a problem... This is the longest Metroid I have ever played, and unfortunately there wasn't enough story to keep it going for the 15 hours longer this installment took me to beat it. That's not to say the game gets boring, far from it, but you do start to ask, "How much longer is this going to take? For me? 15 hours more than the original.
Now it is true that you can rush through it, and skip on weapons and items upgrades, but believe me, like the original, you will want everything when you face down with the 2nd to last boss of the game. Even with all 255 ammo upgrades, and 255 missiles, you will still likely deplete your ammo supply before ending the Emperor Ing's first phase.
There's another area of debatable improvement. Metroid Prime is harder than the original. Some of that difficulty comes artificially; the beam weapons require ammo (thanks a lot you whiney Halo fans) worse yet the ammo can only be replenished is certain conditions are met (IE to get light beam ammo you have to kill with the dark beam.) I did not like this addition to the game. I spent far too much time hunting down ammo and not enough time playing. This game is NOT a first person shooter, it's a first person adventure, and people need to remember that so we don't end up with flaws like that again.
By this point you probably think I hate the game. To the contrary I love it, it's just that the game has left me feeling exhausted. To go that kind of time in a well written deep RPG is one thing, but about 20 hours into the game you're out of stuff to scan, and wander for 15 hours more collecting the upgrades and not much else. Never the less the perfectly balanced first person adventure style action that the original introduced is back with, with an easy to use lock on system, a ton of nifty gadgets (including a perfectly executed 3D screw attack) a great (albeit short) story, and some pretty creepy environments and visuals.
This game didn't give me nightmares, but did manage to give me the hebejibees a few times, and a few monsters managed to get me to jump as well, quite an accomplishment, and a much-appreciated addition to the series. I loved the light world/dark world thing (even though they're borrowing that theme from A Link to the Past) and Dark Samus was great... Come on we know she's the Metroid Prime from the original. Anyone else remember the secret ending? Yeah.
Aside from the game not having enough story to compliment its overall length the vast areas to explore are so strikingly beautiful, and massive that it will take a great deal of time to get bored with what you're looking at. Water effects are a lot better than the previous installment, and the game bare no frame-rate drops, and almost no aliasing running at 480p. It would have been nice to have a true wide screen presentation though.
My favorite addition is that for the first time in a long time there are new weapons, and armor. Most Metroid games its Varia and Gravity suit, this one introduces the dark and light suit, and both are awesome. I also loved the annihilator beam. It was great to blast things to pieces like nothing, but it does burn away your ammo pretty quick, again, this is a first person adventure, why do we need ammo?
The Metroids in this game were also a lot creepier and intimidating than the last one, though not much harder to kill. I loved the look of the monsters in this title; Retro did a great job with the overall design of the landscapes and creatures of the game.
Definitely pick this title up, its a worthy successor to the original, just be warned, it is longer, and you need to be prepared for the moment that the story just kind of drops off the face of the earth until the end of the game.

A simple review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Metroid Prime 2 isn't all its cracked up to be. Lots of people say its real fun but I don't see whats so special about it. There are good things but they are cancled out by bad ones.

pros: 1-good graphics make it look real. Some of the best graphics I've seen in a game.
2-Fight your friends to the death. Blast eachother, dodge around, zoom around into a morph ball, and bomb the crud out of them.
3-good music


cons: 1-locking on to eachoter makes it annoying. It involves little skill
2- Save station suck. They are to far apart for my liking. You have to put a good amount of time in to get anywhere
3-they need a bigger aray of weapons. A sniper would be nice

Conclusion: 7/10
Good game however single player is hard and multiplayer is lacking.

adults only read

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: December 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I thought the reason why we play games was to have fun, not exercise in frustration. The difficulty level is very uneven - most of the time you're doing same mundane silly tasks, but at every boss you will want to hurl the friggin GameCube out of the window. In addition, in some instances there is like 5 minutes of doing the same cakewalk from a save point to the cheapo boss, which naturally you're forced to repeat over and over again as it will take you MANY tries to beat the thing. What's with the rare save points? Ok, so I dont play videogames 3 hours every day, I play occasionally for fun, not to prove myself to anybody. I want to pick up a game, be done with it, and move on. Why not give me an option to play on an easier difficulty?

Second, the game doesn't improve on its predecessor in any way. MP1 was a revelation. Even though its bosses were legendary (what with the idiotic 4 visor and 4 beam clutter during the fight), it still gave an incredible sense of ADVENTURE. Here, the light/dark world trick is more of a nuissance than anything. There's not much difference between the worlds (levels) either, most of the time you can't even tell which one you're in. There's too much back-tracking. You return to the same caves/rooms over and over again, for different items or whatever. At 70% into the game, at a puzzle where the camera switches on you so that you can't even see what you're doing, I had enough - and since I was bored out of my mind anyway, I quit. Definitely a game not for adults.

A Huge Load of @$#& !

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: June 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Metroid Prime 2 was one of the most anticipated games of 2004. At least for Cubers. But unfortunatly it failed spectacularly. The first Metroid Prime had an actual story and it was more interesting without any dialouge. MP1 also had a sense of meaning and purpose. However, Nintendo really fell short on this one with all the dialouge and special weapons and such. The Echo Visor, for example, makes the entire screen a bunch of sillouettes with a white band going down the hall or room about once every 3 seconds, and that's about it. The Ammo System completely destroys the purpose of having beam weapons. The Suits are annoying as well, you get one early in the game. Keep it for most, and then only towards the VERY END do you get another. The "Dark Suit" instead of protecting you from Dark Aether's atmosphere, it only lessens the damage rate to about 1 per second instead of a bunch. it's rediculous! Plus some of the item locations ar just wrong. They involve going through 15 different portals to get there just because of things like power bomb shields.

All in all, this game was a load of Crap and doesn't deserve praise.

Oh man I rollup in a ball

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 24
Date: November 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a game that looks pretty good to old tony. I have to say. I roll up in a ball I think and shoot and oh man sometimes I shoot monsters in the face! In this game you are metroid again and man, you can rollup in a ball and you can just GO! I like this game because the graphics lok pretty good and I hope someone buy tony this holiday game. Looks pretty good!

tony

Too Good!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If there was a contest between MP2 an Halo 2, i think it would be a pretty close tie. If you want to have a great game, use this as your #1 choice. I beat it in about 15 hours, and the last boss is 20 stories tall.

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