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Samus returns with a vengeance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 38 / 42
Date: November 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I remember when the hype for the first Gamecube Metroid was buzzing. All the talk about the fps mode, all the sneers and the scowls regarding not actually being able to see Samus...and then the game came out. And maybe I'm just looking in the wrong circles, but I haven't met a single person who disliked the first Metroid Prime. It was, for all intents and purposes, a perfect game.

From what I've played of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (I'm a little stuck at 9% in the Agon Wastes, and gamefaqs doesn't have anything up yet), I can definitely say its much of that same excellence with a little more added on for good measure. Once again, the most impressive aspect of the game seems to be the environments. Best example I've seen so far is the lightening that pours from the sky in the Wastes...lightening which can actually hurt you in the off chance that it does hit you. And the array of new enemies doesn't hurt the overall look of the game. But the real outstanding feature are the light and dark worlds, which are the "echoes" referenced in the title.

Reminescent of Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, every environment has its mirror image. The difference is that Aether's other half has a little bit of a goth complex, and as a result the enemies there are not only darker, but stronger. The environment is inhospitable to even Miss Aran, who is forced to hop from Luminoth beacon to beacon to minimize time in the miasma. Such is the life of a bounty hunter. And honestly, it gets a little irritating, but that's probably my biggest complaint. I will also agree with EGM's Shane that the plot seems like more of a Rare-style fetch quest than the average Metroid game, and nowhere near the incredible Metroid: Fusion plot. As for multiplayer, the experience hasn't been amazing. Fun for a while, as most multiplayer games are, but if you don't have a full group of people, you're going to get bored pretty quick.

But look on the bright side. The cinemas are brilliant, better than the first game (especially when Dark Samus gets into the fray). I wish I could provide feedback on a final boss and an ending, but I've still got some ways to go, and with a game like this, I gotta be honest...I wanna take my time and enjoy this.

gonna rock

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 39
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now that I've played it, I have to say, I don't think it's as good as the first Metroid Prime. The gameplay is great and everything, but I wish they had come up with a little more new for this game. They pretty much just took all the elements from Metroid Prime and tweaked them a little bit and made this game. It's still a really great game, just not as good as the original.

On to the review. I'm glad that for the sequel they are bringing a little back from the first Metroid for Gamecube. If you've beaten it on 100 percent, you know what I'm talking about. But this game should be great. Graphics will be good, puzzles should be as challenging as before, and the new weapons will kick this game's gameplay up a few notches, which it was pretty high to start with. check this one out when it comes out.

This game is going to be great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 35
Date: September 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Since this is a preview i dont want to rate it but i have to so i rated it whta i thought it might be.first of all id like to name something that amazon did wrong. these arent reviews, there previews and metroid prime 2 echoes is a first person adventure like the first one. now to the PREVIEW and to all you other guys you shouldnt compare halo 2 to prime 2 because there diferent genres(wow because there both first person, lets compare um):

The story of the game goes: samus is called to a planet in the dasha region called planet aether to rescue a federation trooper squad codenamed bravo. Eighty years ago the planet was hit by a phazon meteor and created two realities. alight and dark aether. Light aether is the remnant of how aether was before the metor but the monstrous creatures called the Ing horde were born. The Ing look like five legged spiders with multiple glowing red eyes. They can possess the bodies of other creatures in order to take physical form in the light world. If they possess a creature it then has dark infront of its name. the luminoth are losing the war.The troopers were masicured(i cant spell it) by dark splinters. It is unknown if any survived. When samus gets to aether her suits powers are taken. One of the last surviving luminoth(the native people of aether) ask her for help she accepts the task of collecting the four keys to the energy controller scattered through dark aether so that light aether takes all the internal energy from aether and dark ateher and the ings goals are the opposites. The pirates in the search for phazon in dark aether are stranded. they have brought metroids with them. Samus also encounters an entity called dark samus and creatures who hvae her suits powers called guardians. if that story doesnt get you siked about this game nothing will.

Since the atmospere of dark aether is poison samus needs to get a special dark suit to survive.

She has a light and dark beam. They take amo but if you charge a dark or light beam with an empty amo tank itwill fire a normal shot. The dark beam, if shot at the ground homes in on enemies and can freeze them. if a charged dark beam is fired into the air it creates a mini black hole.

The light beam works like plazma beam. it can lance through enemies. A charge shot reales a spreaded beam that can set the ing on fire..

The dark visor lets you lock on to the ing when they dematerialize , see invisible enemies and see things that dont normally exist in the light world. It also can be used kinda like night vision.

Echo visor: For all your dare-devil fantasies you can see sound(for sound base enemies and finding items)

Screw attack: this lets you mAKE AN INFINate horizontal jump. If used on walls you can perform something called the kickclimb.

Seeker missile: lock onto multiple foes at once.

Spider ball;now you can use it on more places.

Multiplayr: Test yur medal against your friends in the two modes bounty and deathmatch. bount is when you shoot someone and tokens come out. and if you collect the most tokens you win.

This game has a better lighting and dark and light based puzzles. By the way water is solid in the dark world. BRING ON METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES. IT WILL PAWN ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better than Metroid Prime one, by a long shot.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: September 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To start off, I'm going to contradict what that other guy said about the Metroid series because from the sound of things he sucks at video games... First, Metroid was an excellent game for the day and the hardest part about it was getting some paper to write down the password. Then, Metroid 2 for the Game Boy was pretty good, but it had a few flaws... namely the story, there were no real bosses/mini-bossess till the end. Super Metroid is an excellent game, and one of the top ten SNES games, and I'm not trying ot sound like a best-game-of-all-time groupie, but face reality, that game was worthy of at least a 9.8/10. Metroid Fusion was short, which is a fact, but for the most part is was really fun, but the replay value is indeed extremely low. Metroid: Zero Mission, was just a redone version of the first Metroid with an extended ending where you get to run around with out your suit on, which is really cool. It is in no way confusing because when you get a new item, a stone Chozo character tells you where to go, as if that isn't giving the game away, but thankefully you can turn that option off if you get sick of it. Then there was Metroid Prime which was a fun 15 hours for me first time through, and I've played througha couple more times since I then, which was a few days after I acquired the game.

The new Metroid Prime game is fantastic. It's sheer brilliance, and the thought of giving this game a score below 4 stars (unless you dislike the Metroid series because the thought of a chick running around in a space suit kicking as* is against what video game principles you believe in which are that the main character has to have a red hat, or a gun, which makes you a video game trendy) is just an inane thought. I bet some of you are thinking, "Oh man, I hope they never make a movie out of this! I hope they make another redundant movie about drug king pins in the mid 1900s and movies that include Tom Cruise where he pretends to be some one he's not..." well, suck the big one cause it's being made, so all people who are fans of the series can rejoice over that.

Now if you've read all this, maybe you'll read a little further as to why I think the new Metroid Prime game is going to rule. First, the demo leaves the first MP game in the dust, and second the game concept is a slight copy of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but hey, that was also one of the ten best games...well, maybe 20 best games of all time, but still, it means new guns and new worlds which is a bonus. Plus there's the new multi-player mode function which is going to be awsome. So buy this game if you have fifty bucks, if not, well, mow some lawns before the snow falls, it's worth the effort (unless you have a steady job, save a few bucks).

Cutey Samus Returns in Metroid Prime 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 23
Date: September 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm glad my favorite videogame girl heroine, Samus, is back in Metroid Prime 2. This game is a work of art and will be beautiful. The game engine is even better than Halo's because there is no loading time during the game play. The story is going to be very cool. I really enjoyed her story in Planet Tallon IV and found it amusing. I can't wait to see what happens to Samus on her next adventure. Also the music will rock if the same people from Metroid Prime one will make the music for this game. It will blow even Halo's kind of lame music. The new power ups and abilities Samus gains should be very amazing and cool to use and watch. Nintendo owes it to themselves a round of applause for making a sequel to one of the greatest game in Nintendo history starring one of the coolest videogame character ever made. I'm sure rushing out to a videogame store to get this game as soon as it comes.

This game will kick some serious...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

No kiddin. The graphics are splendid. Kenji Yamamoto's score is eerie and awesome, and the story is said to surpass all other metroid games. Pre order it now.

PS... I am sick of all these Halo fans sayin Nintendo is going to die down after MP2:E, and how their marketing scheme is weird. Nintendo's got the GUTS to do things like these, unlike the PS2 and the XBox, where all the do is get your attention by "hot" and "sexy" people in their games, advertising uncreative junk to all.
I am OK with Xbox and PS2. The games are sometimes fun, decent, and entertaining, but when some people try to destroy other because of lame reasons like "weird commercials..." is just... lame.

Go buy MP2:Echoes, beat it, and prove my review wrong, if you must, any metroid-hating fan. The thing that matters is if it made people happy. Like nintendo always does. So does xbx, and PS2.

Please, longeeeeeeeeer!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 22
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am yet again going to be up at one in the morning to stand in line for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. The first game awas ridiculously and absurdly good, so I will pound to death anyone who stnad sin my way. However, when I reviewed Metroid Prime for the website I used to workfor, I gave it 39/40. Yes, that is an "almost perfect". ALMOST. The first game had two things that kept it from being truly perfect:
1. It was quite a bit too short. In easy mode i finished it the firt time through with 100% of all upgrades in 10h27 min, and in hard mode I did the same in 15h or so. I know that shooters are hard to make any longer, but as everyone on the Internet seems to agree, MP was not really a FPS, but more of a FPA, First Person Adventure. It ties in with shooters and adventure games like Zelda, which, I am glad to say are way longer than FPS. Now I am actually ready to grovel and lick the boots of the guys over at Retro Studios in Texas for them to make this one longer than the first one. Please make it at least a good, healthy 20 hours of sweetness equal to the first.

2. It was a bit too easy. That was probably because of the hint system, which pretty much told you were to go. I finished it in easy mode under 15 hours without the hint system, which evened out the easiness of the game, but as i said, unless Retro wants to be responsible for mass suicides, they should make it AT THE VERY LEAST 20 hours long.

With that said, Metroid Prime is, along with Zelda: The Wind Waker, the greatest game on the gamecube to this day. I really hope echoes will live up to the hype, but from what i have seen, it should have no problem doing it.

Over and Out.

This is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metroid prime 2 is a very good game for the cost. I've barely got into it and i'm already having more fun on it than the first one. One cool thing is that there is actually another living thing on the planet that is good. The graphics on this game is a 10 right off the bat. The gameplay is a 10. and the storyline is also a10. One con is that you don't have all the suits of the last game or the beam weapons. the only same beam weapon is the power beam which works well at first. Also the visors are different including the scan visor which is easier to use. There are two new suits. the light suit and the dark suit. the dark suit is not as good as the light suit but it is easier to get.Also the only way to get the light suit is to get 100% by the end of the game I think i'm not sure though. Another way to get it is to have an action replay cheat device. One other thing that would be good to have is the walkthrough boolklet so you can find all the upgrades. So for anybody thinking about getting this game, buy it it's awesome.I give it a 10

The Sequel to One of the Best Games of All Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metroid Prime, in my personal opinion, was THE best GameCube game out there, with its stunning graphics and awesome gameplay. Now, Samus Aran makes what looks like an absolutely fantastic return in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
In this game, Samus journeys to a planet called Aether, which is split into two worlds - the Light World and the Dark World. In the Dark World, Samus can't survive for very long unless she's protected by small transparent domes of light. As she makes her way through the light and dark worlds of Aether, Samus will take on an alien race called the Ing - a race which is at war with each other - as well as an adversary that she will battle throughout the game...Dark Samus, an obviously evil version of Samus.
Even with the awesome storyline and gameplay that's coming with this game, that aspect isn't the only thing that has me excited about MP2. What's exciting me is the new multiplayer mode. That's right - Metroid Prime's coming back with a brand-new multiplayer mode in which you can frag your friends with the various kinds of beams and missiles that Samus has packed into that arm cannon of hers.
With all of this in mind, make sure that you all check the shelves of your local video game store on November 15, because this sequel is sure to be even better than its predecessor. Good Metroid hunting!

Metroid PRime Echoes: A Real Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Intro: I'm sorry guys. I've been reading some reviews, and they are horrible. No one who wrote the reviews have even played it. And that guy who complained about the commercial- what does marketing have to do with a game? We know you're an xbox fan boy.
Review: Grade: *****
Why: Well, I startec the game up, and the first thing I liked about it was the music. Great music. I always find Metroid games to have great music. I played the 1 player game, and it was pretty good. You feel like you're actually facing a big challenge, even if you know what you are doing, which lacked in the first Metroid Prime game. The graphics are superb, and the controls are great. You can tell Nintendo liked the buttons from last time, because most of them did the same thing as they did in Prime. They added some new weapons too, that are good enough to get excited about. I'm not going to go around saying Metroid Prime 2's multiplayer is better than Halo 2, but it's pretty good. If for some reason you can't get Halo 2, or you're too young for it, Metroid Prime 2 is a great choice. I'll even go and say it's Story is better than Halo 2's. And that's why I give it a 5 out of 5.

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