While I stated in my previous console Prime review that I would not praise Retro Studios any further than I already have, I have to do it once more with Prime 3: Corruption. The reason is simple: just about everything in this game is scannable. I'm not exaggerating. This - being the final Prime game in the trilogy - ends on the note of traveling to the origin of both the phazon and the Leviathan seeds, and you can all imagine what happens. The story continues as all Metroid Prime games tend to with the plot "thickening" with each new detail you find out about not only the phazon corruption in the bounty hunters, but also on the planets themselves. The other hunters have been fitted with similar suits as well, however, it does not take long before we find out that the PED suits are flawed, and that our ally Rudas has been corrupted by the essence of Dark Samus. When Samus awakens she finds out that she has been fitted with a new PED Suit to channel a source of phazon parasite that is growing inside her (sound like Fusion anyone?). Samus's PED suit allows her to activate "Hypermode", a state that renders her invincible to most attacks, and simultaneously amplifies all damage output Samus recovers briefly to activate the cannon, and after that falls into a month-long comatose. All four of the bounty hunters are shot by the phazon clone, rendering them all unconscious. Once the three energy generators are online, Samus travels to the canon in an attempt to activate the planet's laser cannon to destroy an incoming Leviathan, the likes of which brings Dark Samus to the planet. Samus also encounters a resurrected Ridley and the two plummet down an energy shaft - locked in combat - until Samus is saved by Rundas who rides in on this totally awesome ice-wave-thing that I really wish I could get in the game! *cough* Sorry about that, almost lost myself there. There, Samus encounters a number of Phazon Enhancement Device Troopers (PED Trooper for short) fighting against the Space Pirates. While the bounty hunters were originally hired to cure a Federation Aurora Unit (think Mother Brain, but a good guy) from a Space Pirate virus, an attack by the latter group commences, forcing the Federation to dispatch their newly contracted hunters to Norion. Olympus and meets with fellow bounty hunters (who are allies this time): Ghor, Rundas, and Gandrayda.įrom left to right: Gandrayda, Rundas, Samus, and Ghor Six months after saving the world of Aether from obliteration by the hands of the vile parasitic Ing, Samus Aran arrives upon the G.F.S. It just wouldn't be a Retro Studios Prime game without a plot, would it? As expected, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption takes place after the previous title Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. With that said, let's get our Phazon Enhancement Device Suits on and go into Hypermode as we hunt Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on the Nintendo Wii. Nothing will excuse the game from anything that we - as modern gamers - would expect to see in the genre today. No nostalgia glasses, no excuses, no rationalizing hardware limitations, and no sparing myself from angry fans and readers. Oddly enough, many of these complaints echo my praises of Metroid Prime: Hunters, and so as I enter Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the second time ever the question in my head is: "Is Metroid Prime 3: Corruption a good Metroid game or action-FPS?"Īs with all Rewind Reviews, Metroid Prime: Corruption will undergo a review process through the eyes of a modern critic. Players have often been cited as complaining that the game "lacks the adventure aspects that made the series strong" or that "firing the same weapon all game is lame and repetitive". Metroid Prime 3 shares the burden Prime 2: Echoes received as the Prime series became more and more of an action game instead of a Metroid game.
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