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The title Metroid Dread first appeared on a 2005 internal Nintendo software list of "key DS games set to be announced in the future", [11] triggering expectation that it would appear at the E3 convention in 2005 or 2006. [12] [13] [14] In late 2005, rumors spread that Metroid Dread had been canceled or was in development hell.
Metroid [a] is a series of nonlinear science fiction action games published by Nintendo, featuring side-scrolling, metroidvania, and first-person shooter elements. The player character and protagonist of the series is Samus Aran, a space-faring bounty hunter who battles Space Pirates and a species called the Metroid.
Sakamoto created characters for Metroid (under the alias 'Shikamoto'), and was a game designer on Kid Icarus. [3] [4] [5] He also directed Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid: Other M, and was the producer for Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Dread.
Metroid Dread continues where Fusion left off, with the Federation dispatching a squadron of advanced automatons known as E.M.M.I. to investigate the planet ZDR, where X parasites have been sighted. Samus is sent to the planet herself after contact is lost, coming into conflict with the X and a Chozo war criminal named Raven Beak, stopping both ...
Super Metroid [a] [b] is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.It is the third installment in the Metroid series, following the events of the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991).
In Metroid Dread, the Galactic Federation receives a video from an unknown source showing an X Parasite alive in the wild on planet ZDR. To investigate, they send 7 EMMI (Extraplanetary Multiform Mobile Identifier) units, but after losing contact with the units, they hire Samus once again as she is the only being in the universe immune to the X.
The 2D Metroid games are side-scrollers, and the 3D Metroid Prime series gives the player a first-person perspective, [1] while Other M is a third-person shooter with the ability to switch to first-person view. [2] Metroid is one of Nintendo's most successful franchises, with over 17 million copies sold by September 2012. [3]
The video game Metroid Dread features robots called EMMI that hunt down Samus. The concept comes from SA-X, with Sakamoto wanting to recreate the tension SA-X produced in another game. [ 5 ] They specifically wanted to feature the chase style of gameplay in a Metroid game with more traditional gameplay than Fusion .