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Metroid Dread is an action-adventure game in which players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she explores the planet ZDR. It retains the side-scrolling gameplay of previous Metroid games, alongside the free aim and melee attacks added in Samus Returns (2017).
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 ...
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 original Metroid was a genre pioneer, and Super Metroid went on to establish the Metroidvania genre alongside Castlevania. The latest release in the franchise has been Metroid Prime Remastered, a remake of Metroid Prime. Metroid Dread is currently the best-selling Metroid game, with over 3 million sales. Microsoft Flight Simulator: November ...
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.
Metroidvania [a] is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a partial blend of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997).
In Metroid, however, items are permanent fixtures that lasted until the end. In particular, missiles and the ice beam are required to finish the game. [7] After defeating Mother Brain, the game presents one of five ending screens based on the time to completion. Metroid is one of the first games to contain multiple endings. In the third, fourth ...
Metroid: Samus Returns is a 2017 action-adventure game developed by MercurySteam and Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console.It is a remake of the 1991 Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus.