Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime is a first person shooter, action adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It is the first 3D game in the Metroid series, and is classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure instead of a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game. The game has a CERO: A (All Ages) / ELSPA: 11+ / ESRB: T (Teen) / OFLC: M 15+ / PEGI: 12+ / USK: 12 rating.

Features

Metroid Prime takes place in a large, open-ended world with different regions connected by elevators. Each region has a set of rooms separated by doors that can be opened with a shot from the correct beam. The gameplay revolves around solving puzzles to reveal secrets, platform jumping, and shooting foes with the help of a "lock-on" mechanism that allows circle strafing while staying aimed on the enemy. Players travel through the world of Tallon IV in search for twelve Chozo Artifacts to open the path to the Phazon meteor impact crater, collecting power-ups along the way that opens inaccessible areas. Throughout the game, players must find and collect items that improve Samus’ arsenal and suit, including weapons, armor upgrades for Samus’ Power Suit and items that grant abilities. The heads-up display features a radar, a map, ammunition for missiles, a health meter, a danger meter for hazardous landscape or materials, and a health bar for bosses along with the boss name. Changing the visor will alter the display, like visors with thermal imaging, with x-ray vision, or a scanner that searches for enemy weaknesses. They can also feature interfaces with certain mechanisms such as force fields and elevators, allowing the player to operate them. Prime also introduces a hint system that provides the player with a general idea of where to go and altered functions of items featured in previous Metroid games. Art galleries and different endings are unlockable if a player obtains a high percentage of collected items and Scan Visor logs. Prime also addressed reasons why Samus does not start with power-ups attained in previous games; as they are all lost during an explosion in the Space Pirate’s ship, they are all lost. This game allows players to connect Metroid Prime with Metroid Fusion using a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable, allowing them to use the Fusion Suit in Fusion to play the original Metroid.