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Within even the earliest levels, you’ll find interactive panels and devices that have you pushing, pulling and twisting the remote, plus a grapple which can be used to yank items and enemy shields towards you and – later on – swing across chasms. Kudos, Retro.Īnd kudos too for finding other interesting ways of using the remote and nunchuk that build on this foundation without feeling like totally pointless gimmicks.

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You don’t have to prance around in front of the sofa like the guy in the current TV advert, but there are times when Corruption makes you feel like it. It’s beautifully done, and gives the game that immediate sense of physical connection between player and character that is a factor in so many of the best Wii games. The Nunchuk is used for forward, backward and lateral movement, while the remote works as a targeting device, moving sights and cursors within the main screen area, but rotating the view once these push towards the edges.

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With the original Metroid Prime, Retro Studios did an incredible job of refitting the Metroid series for a first-person perspective without losing any of its core values, and here the team has done equally stellar work in adapting Metroid Prime for the remote and nunchuk. Well, the good news is that the controls are superbly implemented. The question is whether a Metroid – and one designed to fit around the Wii’s unique controls – can convince the hardcore fanbase and stand up to the increasingly sophisticated competition on other consoles. While not an FPS as such, it’s the nearest thing Nintendo has to a Halo or a Killzone, and those of us whose Wiis have spent much of the year gathering dust are getting desperate for a Nintendo classic with some meat to it.

For those of us who have been playing Nintendo games since the days of the NES and SNES, that makes Metroid Prime 3: Corruption an important game. Finally.We all know that it was Wii Sports, not Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess, that has made Nintendo’s little wonder the runaway success of this console generation, but Nintendo keeps on telling us that it hasn’t forgotten its loyal, more hardcore audience. This is the first muct have game for the Wii since Twilight Princess. Long time fans can rest assured that the gameplay they’ve come to expect from the Metroid series hasn’t been jeopardized in favor of a gimmicky controller. The Wii was in a bit of a summer drought there, but Prime came like a much needed shower. So yeah, Metroid Prime 3 lives up to the hype, and arrives just in time too. It just looks cool, and is a refreshing alternative to the dark and gritty streets and corridors of a lot of shooters. Detail is priority number one and every environment and character is proof of that.

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They can’t touch what the 360 or PS3 are putting out, but the game makes up for it in style. The graphics are, as is par for Prime, works of art. But who knows, maybe you’re a female intergalactic bounty hunter trapped in the body of a 22-year-old aspiring writer’s body, desperately trying to get out and take life by the…oh. After all, Samus is a woman, so it might break the illusion. I guess you could give her your own voice, but I wouldn’t suggest male gamers try it. Interesting additions to the franchise are the new role Samus’ ship plays in puzzle solving and, gasp, talking characters! Through in true Nintendo “making gamers become the character” fashion, Samus stays silent. The ease of the game may be a turn off to some, but there is a changeable difficulty setting to rest the worries of those gamers who like pulling their hair out. We’re talking again, but it’s still a little awkward. The difficulty is scaled back significantly from Prime 2, which I found so annoyingly frustrating that I broke up with it for the better part of a year.

You run, gun, scan and solve your way through alien worlds and in the end save the universe from those dastardly little jelly fish from beyond the stars. A majority of the gameplay will be very familiar to anyone who has played Prime and Prime 2.

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