Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector’s Edition
Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector’s Edition
All three games in the trilogy have been crafted into one unbelievable package, with a newly implemented exclusive title menu with direct access to any of the three titles. Not only that, but players can also earn awards by collecting tokens through their progress across the trilogy, making for an ideal award system. Both Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes games have been updated with the refined control system of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Moving is done with the Control Stick and the Nunchuck controller, while the Wii Remote controller controls the Arm Cannon’s crosshairs, allowing the player to smoothly and more accurately aim by pointing at the screen. The camera will move where the player points, making for more intuitive control, and allowing players to look around and attack while moving. Three different sensitivity settings allow everyone from beginners to FPS veterans to find a response speed to their liking. In addition to the new control, the Nintendo GameCube games have new features and improvements such as 16×9 wide-screen presentation, and improved HUD system to accommodate the new pointer control, some graphic improvements, and newly added new difficulty levels.Metroid Prime 3: Corruption set a new standard for first-person motion controls in video games. Now it’s bringing those controls to the rest of the celebrated series, allowing players to experience the entire Metroid Prime story arc with the peerless precision of the Wii Remote. Nintendo announces Metroid Prime Trilogy, a new premium three-game collection for the Wii console that bundles all three landmark Metroid Prime games onto one disc and revamps the first two installments with intuitive Wii Remote controls, wide-screen presentation, and other enhancements.
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The Ultimate Metroid Prime Experience Key Game Features:
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User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Same as Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Double layered disk)
I havent yet played this game but take note that this is Nintendos second Double layered disk. This meaning that if the lens is even slightly dirty, the Wii will not read the disk. If this problem occurs there is an official Wii lens cleaning kit for sale. I will try to post an actual gameplay review once my kit comes in.Wii Lens Cleaning Kit
4 Stars Great set of games, excellent value
Out of the 3 prime games, I had previously only played the first one back on the cube, still fun to play back through this game with the wii controls and excellent value to get the other 2 games as well.
5 Stars METROID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do I really have to say it?
(Yes it is worth it simply to play Metroid Prime 1 and 2 with the Wii controls.)
5 Stars Supreme quality…… awesome redone version!!!
Superb….. simply superb….
I won’t take away from the other great reviews and waste your time, I’ll just say this is a MUST HAVE….
Simply a dream…. get your copy today!!!
5 Stars Simply Amazing .
Corralling all three Metroid Prime games on to one disc and gifting the GameCube games with new Wii controls feels like an award for outstanding achievement rather than an attempt to improve upon the originals. For as slick as the re-engineered pointer-based shooting system is, it’s not the series’ most significant accomplishment.
Trust Nintendo to give the green light to such a rethink of the firstperson shooter. Here, AI is functional and multiplayer an afterthought (Prime 2’s fourplayer mode could be generously described as throwaway), while protagonist Samus Aran’s arm-mounted cannon is more a means of progression than weapon.
After all, each new upgrade only reaffirms Metroid’s status as the thinking man’s shooter, with missiles opening previously impenetrable doors, bombs clearing blockages, and so on. Even the gargantuan bosses require equal parts thought and firepower. But the true obstacle in Metroid isn’t the alien fauna, it’s the vast and daunting terrain.
In no other shooter does the environment play such an integral role as it does in the Prime series, a fact frequently underlined by Samus’ most significant means of interacting with her surroundings: her visor. Hassle-free dips into the menu switch to scan mode, revealing depth and detail untouched by other firstperson action games. The textures may have aged, albeit with some grace, but in terms of depth the Metroid Prime games still deliver supremely engaging experiences.
Inevitably, quality wavers across the series, peaking with the original instalment, its follow-ups favouring graphical flourishes over design innovation: for every clever new gadget there is a helmet-full of air-rippling energy blasts and an increasingly reflective visor. Even the advancements made possible by the Wii Remote feel like a necessary evolution rather than genuine innovation.
Regardless, the gathering together of the inspired original and its two accomplished sequels at such an affordable price is only good news for Wii owners. The new control system may ultimately be an upgrade Samus Aran never really needed, but this is still the best - and most logical - Wii reissue from Nintendo to date.
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