No dice for me either. Not only that but I slept like shit last night so I probably will only be able to get a couple hours out of it tonight. In fact, I need to get me a extra large coffee right about now if I'm even going to stay at work today (as tempting as it is to cut).

Ordered mine from Family Video, so I won't get to play until Saturday or so. :(

I'll be picking up my copy after work. Fortunately I just finished BioShock last night, but I haven't finished Echoes yet, and I'm debating whether or not I should finish that up before I start on Corruption. Any opinions? Will I miss much in terms of plot if I just jump into MP3 and finish up MP2 later?

Same here, but I'm out of town for the weekend anyway, so I can wait for saving $10 on the game :)

Metroid really isn't about its plot, although it is there and fairly strong if you choose to delve into it. The Prime series is supposed to be its own trilogy revolving around phazon but I don't think you'll miss a single thing by skipping on Echoes (other than a great game, heh).

I'm about 25% of the way through Echoes, and I'm enjoying it. I took a break to play through BioShock. If order doesn't matter too much, maybe I'll play through Corruption first and then go back and finish up Echoes. I don't think I have the self-control to not play Corruption once I have it in my hands. :D

I didn't think of this on my first reply, but based on the scant one-liner previews/reviews I've scanned, it might just be hard to go back based on how awesome the new control scheme is supposed to be. Just keep that in mind!

This is why I'm praying for a re-release (or director's cut) of MP 1&2 with the new control scheme. That's easily worth $50 as a compilation disc.

I'm not overly concerned about that, but maybe I should try and play through in order. I'll see how long my will can hold out...

Question: I haven't played a Metroid game since Super Metroid, and I don't particularly like first person shooters. I assume this is not a game I will enjoy?

Good assumption. This is the most FPS like Metroid so there is a good chance you won't. I admire the Prime series, but I did not finish the the first one and I still have the second one sealed on my shelf. I rarely like FPS games. Half Life 2 and Bioshock are rare exceptions and I can only play those on a PC.

Thanks. :thumbsup:

I'll disagree (strongly) with the above. Metroid Prime is in the first person and you do shoot things, but it's far more Super Metroid than something like Halo. You still platform quite frequently, you still spend more time exploring, finding power-ups and exploratory items, etc. I'd suggest at the very least trying out the first Prime game, which you can get under $10 at any GameStop. Prime 3 probably inches closer to an FPS as the Wii remote controls put it closer to a keyboard/mouse combination, but everything thus far indicates it's still much more Metroid than FPS.

There are certainly elements of Super Metroid in it, but the Prime series is based around all the things I dislike about playing FPS games. I don't see people liking this that don't like FPS games. There are minor Super Metroid elements in games like Halo and Bioshock and platforming in Half Life 2, but those games are still FPS games. This also holds true for the Prime series and especially the third one.

I haven't played MP3, but I've played a ton of FPS games, and Metroid Prime plays like none of them. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it plays like a first-person Zelda 3D game (what with locking on to enemies, gathering power-ups, and such).

It's a lot like a first-person Metroid 3D game.

Great comparison and I concur, unless you are just absolutely against the actual first person perspective, it's worth a try. I am not an FPS fan by any means and I LOVE the Metroid Prime series, the first one is the reason I came back to gaming, after I had given it so much shit for months for being an FPS. After finally actually playing it, it knocked me off my ass and made me buy a GameCube and the game at 2 AM at a Wal*Mart.

MP1 remade with Wii controls, I would easily pay $50 for. MP2, not so much. The dark world stuff just annoyed the hell out of me.

Only 3 more hours of work, and hopefully MP3 will be mine! If not, I guess I can finish up my first playthrough of Super Metroid tonight. Great game.:D

The first Prime game was for the GC? If I can find it for that cheap, I might give it a shot- better than spending $50 on the new one and realizing I hate it.

Thirty more minutes! Now, if I can manage to stay awake to at least play a little bit.. :mad:

I wonder how playing this back-to-back with Bioshock (which I'm about halfway through) will effect my perception of either game.

Well I didn't think I'd do it but I picked this game up on an impulse. :lol: I was in Gamestop and they had copies so I did it. After I eat I'm going to pop it in and see what the deal is. I have Metroid Prime and based on the controls it's ok. I'm hoping this game made for the Wii controls will be good.

Okay, so if I was a big fan of Metroid, Super Metroid, and whatever that one for the first Gameboy was called... but have never played any of the other Prime games, will this be hard to jump into? I don't mind FPS-type games if they're done right.

How did you get it at Gamestop? They always tell me that you won't get it for weeks if you don't preorder.

Just got home, and with Metroid in hand! They also had 6 Wiis, the most I've seen in store in the whole time it's been available.

Now , time to eat a little bit and strap in for some Metroid!:D

That's the thing, I was just in doing my usual used game deal check and this woman came in to pick up MP3. He asked if she had reserved it and she said no. He then said that it was ok because they had several extra copies. Since I wanted a Wii game I figured why not? So I asked him for a copy. I'm sure it's easy to find but since I was there I just bought it. Mind you, I didn't even know it was out today. :lol:

Well, I found this at Wal-Mart yesterday night and am enjoying it so far. I'm already saying, "I'll just see what's through this door," and playing another hour or two.

So did anyone have to do an Update after putting the MP disc in? I put the disc in and it didn't show up on the game channel. So I clicked the channel and a "Initiating System Update" window popped up. The the game showed up in the channel after the screen rebooted.

I wonder what that was about?

I had to do an update too.

I LOVE THIS GAME! I just got past the beginning. The controls are the shit on advanced. I'll be late tonight.:D

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I despise first person shooters...but love Metroid Prime.

I seem to recall another game doing that for some... Super Paper Mario, perhaps? There was a regular blue va-jay-jay update just before it released and some people didn't get the game update because of that.

Darn game!! Wrist is sore from all the killing!

I have to admit, that the graphics get a lot better after you leave the space station. That's for sure. It's no GoW, but it is pretty and runs nice and smooth.

Grappling is all sorts of fun, Half Life's gravity gun would be fun to control with Wii controls.

Well, back to killin' and scanning!

So far it's been interesting. I can't say I'm blown away but it's kinda growing on me. The movements for simple shit like grabbing handles and turning them is fun. :lol:

Ha, I didn't think I'd buy it today either but I did. I went to a WalMart on my lunch break and noticed that they had one copy of the game in stock, and because of that I decided to buy it. If I had saw, say, five or ten of the games, or maybe even just two, I wouldn't have bought it today. Yes, it's weird, I know.

I can't believe that I bought this before Bioshock. I'm just a huge Wii fan, and to be honest, I think I'd rather have a really good Wii game than a really good game on any other system. I just love Wii controls, and I'm not ashamed to say so.

So far I've played though the first part or two, and I'm now at the part where:



The controls are fantastic, so I can't wait to dive right into the game even more soon. :)

I wasn't a huge fan of the two GC Metroid games, but the Wii controls will be enough to keep me playing to the end this time.

I've been playing for about an hour and a half now, and so far I'm loving it. The entire intro sequence (or first mission if you like) already have some of the most exciting moments in the series. And the controls are pretty great. I'm not super crazy about how you access scan mode, but I've learned to live with it.

My only issue is that after cutscenes for some reason, no matter how you're holding the Wii remote, the targeting reticle goes into a corner and your view goes with it, forcing you to readjust, which takes a few seconds. Not the worst problem in the world, but still annoying.

Ditto. With Bioshock, the new PS3 and Halo around the corner I figured I'd be set for quite a while. Anyway I had some returns last night at Toys R Us that netted me $32, so how could I resist?

I hated the introduction sequence. I'm not really a fan of forced narrative in a Metroid game, it doesn't feel right. On the plus side, once you get past that, it does seem to shift into pure Metroid goodness. The controls are spot-on, as I figured they'd be. I've already found a bunch of hidden items using the trick from the past game (hint: you can hear hidden items). The boss battles thus far have been insane as well, super exciting. The 3D Zelda and Metroid games easily have the best boss battles in all of video gaming. The grappling hook is awesome, that's the reason I love Wii controls when they're done right because you just FEEL like you tearing off the bastard's shield.

Whoever was whining that this one was going to be more of an FPS now was dead wrong. Other than being able to free-look while you move, it's about as much of an FPS as the first two Prime games were.. and you can still use the full lock-on control scheme if you don't want to focus on aiming. I'd go as far to say that all the added cut-scenes and character interactions take it far more away from Metroid than the perspective or controls ever could have, but that's just me.

On a side note, the female hunter calling Samus "Sammy" was a bit funny/disturbing for me, since that's my girlfriend's nickname.

I had no problems with the intro. It's in line with the established Metroid universe (Samus being part of a group of hunters who do missions for the Federation that their normal soldiers can't) and I really liked the design of the ships and the other hunters.

Would you mind posting the full trick for the hidden items in a spoiler?

It's not really a spoiler. You can HEAR items, they emit a humming noise. You'll hear it when you're near an item, hidden or not. Once you know the sound, it'll alert you that there's an item in a room and the general proximity of it, as the sound increases the closer you are.

Ah. I'll have to prick my ears up next time I play.