METROID PRIME REVIEW SERIES

The sound is integrated well into the experience.Īs for the music, it’s a mixture of old and new. When I first started playing, I kept noticing an ominous, low humming in some areas - it didn’t dawn on me until a little later that this signaled the presence of an item or weapon upgrade, and it became an important part of gameplay. Tentacles slice through the air with a whipping sound, cannons fire their beams as the sound rushes past Samus’ head, and the Space Pirates “speak” in scary death-metal growls. Later on, the sound effects become important clues as the enemies’ noises surround you. In the introductory area, the music is minimal and really shows off the sound effects of Samus’ footsteps and weaponry as well as those of the environment. In short, they definitely paid attention to detail, and for a game like Metroid where one may spend hours just running around and checking stuff out, I appreciate it when the developers let us know they gave a damn. The backgrounds of the title and menu screens show the rendered innards of a Metroid, complete with icky cysts and pulses of energy, playing in sort of a stuck video loop to give it a creepy little touch. The Chozos have a sleeker, more regal look to them (but where are the sitting Chozo statues holding the powerups?). I like the shaky-cam effect when Samus takes an elevator to another area of Tallon IV. You can see the bones in Samus’ hands when you use the X-Ray Visor her gun-arm smokes after firing a long, rapid blast from the Power Beam. Textures are very realistic, the enemies look great, and there are tons of cool special effects. Much has been said about Retro’s talented artists, and now we know why. Though not entirely without its share of problems, the game is polished, well-done, and most importantly, Metroid. got their claws into it as well, with Satoru Iwata serving as Executive Producer, Kenji Yamamoto reprising his role from Super Metroid as music composer, and Shigeru Miyamoto also serving as a producer, among other NCL staff. Retro Studios, for all their alleged troubles that the gaming press reported on during the development of Prime, has pulled an awesome game out of the fire. Well…I apologize, and can I get some barbecue sauce with that? However, you may also remember me saying that I would gladly apologize and eat crow if everything turned out alright. Sounded like disaster from the word go, and I got pretty hot about the whole situation. Not only that, but Nintendo was farming the title out to a new American development company that nobody had ever heard of.

METROID PRIME REVIEW SERIES

It seemed to me that making Metroid into a first-person game would be against everything that made Metroid great in the first place, not to mention the simple annoyance that they were taking my favorite game series and turning it into my least favorite game format. I’ve played enough of them to know that they simply don’t appeal to me. Review by: TJ Rappel Original Publish Date: Pending Final rating: Begrudgingly positive.Ī couple years ago, when it was announced that Metroid Prime would be a first-person shooter (before they caught the backlash and started calling it a “first-person adventure”), I said some rather nasty, immature things about it here on the site.

Metroid prime review