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Metroid Prime is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. Metroid Prime is the fifth main Metroid game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first-person perspective. It was released in North America in November 2002, and in Japan and Europe the following year.
The ported version of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has a different aspect ratio, changed from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen, and allows for the targeting reticle to be aimed anywhere on the screen using the Wii Remote. Metroid Prime: Trilogy is a video game compilation which includes Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is a 2004 adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.The sequel to Metroid Prime (2002) and the first Metroid game with a multiplayer feature, Echoes was released in North America, Europe and Australia in 2004 and in Japan under the name Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes [a] in May 2005.
Metroid Prime was considered one of the best games ever made upon its release, winning Game of the Year from various publications and websites. [108] [109] [110] IGN called the aural experience with Metroid Prime 2: Echoes "mesmerizing". [111] Music from Metroid has been frequently re-released as part of "best of" video game music releases.
Known in Japan as Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes. [b] [35] [36] First game in the series with a multiplayer mode. [37] The PAL version lacks the standard 50 Hz mode and offers 60 Hz only. [38] Re-released for the Wii in the New Play Control! series of GameCube remakes in Japan and as part of Metroid Prime: Trilogy internationally. [33]
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The seventh main game in the Metroid series, it was released in North America and Europe in 2007 and in Japan in 2008. Corruption is set six months after Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004).
Noting that Metroid is not the first game to offer an open world, or the first side-view platformer exploration game, or the first game to allow players to reach new areas using newly acquired items, Gamasutra praised Metroid for being perhaps the first video game to "take these different elements and rigorously mold them into a game-ruling ...
[1] Samus also appears in other Metroid Prime games, including Metroid Prime Pinball, a pinball version of the first Metroid Prime game. She also appears in Metroid Prime Hunters, where she is tasked with either retrieving or destroying an "ultimate power" while dealing with other bounty hunters. Metroid Prime Federation Force has her as a non ...