Very Postive Metroid Impression on IGN.CUBE
 

Unfortunately they only saw a fairly lengthy video, rather than getting to play it, but they loved what they saw. It looks like the game will play like a Metroid game, despite being a first-person game for the majority of the time, with third person areas here and there. Here's a link.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/354/354842p1.html

I'm ready to buy it after reading that....and I don't even own a GC!

i can't wait. this has been a long time coming.