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Metroid Prime

May 05, 2023

Metroid Prime is an action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.[1] Metroid Prime is the fifth main Metroid game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first-person perspective. It was released in North America in November 2002, and in Japan and Europe the following year. Along with the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, released a day before, Prime marked the return of the Metroid series after an eight-year hiatus following Super Metroid (1994).[2][3]

Metroid Prime
North American and PAL region box art
Developer(s)Retro Studios
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Mark Pacini
Producer(s)
Programmer(s)Mark Johnston
Artist(s)
  • Todd Keller
Composer(s)
SeriesMetroid
Platform(s)
Release
November 18, 2002
  • GameCube
    • NA: November 18, 2002
    • BRA: December 15, 2002
    • JP: February 28, 2003
    • EU: March 21, 2003
    • AU: April 3, 2003
  • Wii
    • JP: February 19, 2009
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Metroid Prime takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus.[4][5] Players control the bounty hunter Samus Aran as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV. Metroid Prime was a collaboration between Retro in Austin, Texas, and Japanese Nintendo employees, including producers Shigeru Miyamoto and Kensuke Tanabe. Miyamoto suggested the project after visiting Retro's headquarters in 2000. Since exploration takes precedence over combat, Nintendo described the game as a "first-person adventure" rather than a first-person shooter.[6]

Metroid Prime received acclaim and sold more than 2.8 million copies worldwide.[7] It won a number of Game of the Year awards, and is widely regarded by many critics to be one of the greatest video games of all time, remaining one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic.[8]

Metroid Prime was followed by Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004) and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007); Metroid Prime 4 was announced in 2017. In 2009, an enhanced version of Metroid Prime was released for the Wii in Japan, and as part of the Metroid Prime: Trilogy compilation internationally. A high-definition remastered version was released on the Nintendo Switch in 2023.

Gameplay

 
Samus in battle with a Flying Pirate. The player character is controlled from a first-person perspective.

Metroid Prime is a 3D action-adventure game in which players control series protagonist Samus Aran from a first-person perspective, unlike previous games of the Metroid series,[9][10] with third-person elements used for Morph Ball mode.[9] The gameplay involves solving puzzles to reveal secrets, platform jumping, and shooting foes with the help of a "lock-on" mechanism that allows circle strafing while staying aimed at the enemy.[9][10]

Samus must travel through the world of Tallon IV searching for twelve Chozo Artifacts that will open the path to the Phazon meteor impact crater, while collecting power-ups that let her reach new areas. The Varia Suit, for example, protects Samus' armor against high temperatures, allowing her to enter volcanic regions. Some items are obtained after boss fights. Items must be collected in a specific order; for example, players cannot access certain areas until they find a certain Beam to open doors, or discover new ordnance with which to beat bosses.[11][12] Players are incentivized to explore to find upgrades such as ammunition packs and extra health.[13]

The heads-up display, which simulates the inside of Samus' helmet, features a radar display, a map, ammunition for missiles, a health meter, a danger meter for negotiating hazardous landscape or materials, and a health bar and name display for bosses. The display can be altered by exchanging visors; one uses thermal imaging, another has x-ray vision, and another features a scanner that searches for enemy weaknesses and interfaces with mechanisms such as force fields and elevators.[11] The game introduces a hint system that provides the player with clues about ways to progress through the game.[14]

Players can gain two features by connecting Prime with Metroid Fusion using a GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable: cosmetic use of the Fusion Suit that Samus wears in Fusion and the ability to play the original Metroid game.[11][15]

Items

 
While Samus is in Morph Ball form, the view changes to a third-person view.

Throughout the game, players must find and collect items that improve Samus's arsenal and suit, including weapons, armor upgrades for Samus's Power Suit and items that grant abilities—including the Morph Ball, which allows Samus to compress herself into a ball in order to roll into narrow passages and drop energy bombs, and the Grapple Beam, which works by latching onto special hooks called grapple points, allowing Samus to swing across gaps. Unlike those in earlier games in the series, the beam weapons in Metroid Prime have no stacking ability, in which the traits of each beam merge. Instead, the player must cycle the four beam weapons; there are charge combos with radically different effects for each. Other upgrades include boots that allow Samus to double-jump and a Spider Ball upgrade that allows her to climb magnetic rails.[11]

Items from previous Metroid games appear with altered functions. Art galleries and different endings are unlockable if the player collects a high percentage of items and Scan Visor logs. Prime is one of the first Metroid games to address the reason Samus does not start with power-ups acquired in previous games; she begins the game with some upgrades, including the Varia Suit, Missiles and Grapple Beam, but they are lost during an explosion on the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon.[16] The producers stated that starting with some power-ups was a way to give the player "different things to do" and to learn the functions of these items before settling into the core gameplay.[17]

Plot

Setting

Retro Studios wrote an extensive storyline for Metroid Prime,[20] which was considered a major difference from previous Metroid games. Short cutscenes appear before important battles, and a scanner in the heads-up display extracts backstory-related information from objects.[10] The Prime trilogy is set between the events of Metroid and Metroid II.[4][5]

The game takes place on the planet Tallon IV, formerly inhabited by the Chozo race.[21] Five decades ago, the Chozo race fell after a meteor impacted on Tallon IV. The meteor contaminated the planet with a corruptive, mutagenic substance that the Space Pirates later named Phazon,[21][22] and also brought with it a creature known to the Chozo as "The Worm".[23] A large containment field emitter of the Artifact Temple in the Tallon Overworld area was built as a seal to the meteor's energies and influence within the crater where it landed,[24] which the Space Pirates attempt to disable or bypass in order to gain better access to extract the Phazon.[25] The containment field is controlled by twelve Chozo artifacts that are scattered around the planet.[11][26]

Story

Samus Aran intercepts a distress signal from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon, whose crew have been slaughtered by the Pirates' own genetically modified, experimental subjects, using a mysterious radioactive substance called Phazon. At the ship's core, she battles with the Parasite Queen, a giant version of the tiny parasites aboard the ship. The Parasite Queen is defeated and falls into the ship's reactor core, initiating the destruction of the ship. While Samus is escaping from the frigate, she encounters a cybernetic version of Ridley called Meta Ridley, who also escapes. During her escape, an explosion damages Samus's suit, causing some of her abilities to malfunction. Samus escapes the frigate and chases Ridley in her gunship towards the nearby planet Tallon IV.[27][28]

After landing in the Tallon Overworld, Samus explores nearby areas of Tallon IV and discovers ruins of an ancient Chozo settlement. As she explores the ruins, she learns that the Chozo on the planet had been killed off by the Phazon infesting the planet, which originated from a meteor that impacted on the planet many years ago. After regaining her lost abilities in the ruins, as well as defeating a mutated plant creature that was poisoning the local water supply, Samus finds her way to the Magmoor Caverns, a series of magma-filled tunnels, which are used by the Space Pirates as a source of geothermal power. Following the tunnels, Samus travels to the Phendrana Drifts, a cold, mountainous location which is home to another ancient Chozo ruin and a Space Pirate research lab used to study the Metroids. After obtaining new abilities, Samus explores the wreckage of the crashed Orpheon and then infiltrates the Phazon Mines, where she learns the outcome of the Phazon experimentation project, including the Metroid Prime, a creature that had come to Tallon IV with the meteor. Advancing deeper into the mines, Samus fights her way through the Phazon-enhanced Space Pirates and obtains the Phazon Suit after defeating the monstrous Omega Pirate.[27][28]

At some point, Samus discovers the Artifact Temple that the Chozo built to contain the Metroid Prime and to stop the Phazon from spreading over the planet. To gain access to the meteor's Impact Crater, Samus must collect and unite the twelve Chozo artifacts. As Samus returns to the temple with the artifacts, Meta Ridley appears and attacks her. Samus defeats Ridley and enters the Impact Crater, where she finds the Metroid Prime. After she defeats it, the Metroid Prime absorbs Samus's Phazon Suit and explodes. Samus escapes the collapsing crater and leaves Tallon IV in her ship.[27][28]

If the player completes the game with all of the items obtained, Metroid Prime reconstructs itself into a body resembling Samus.[29]

Development

Further information: Retro Studios § 1998–2002: Creation and Metroid Prime
 
Concept artwork of the Impact Crater

According to producer Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo did not develop a Metroid game for the Nintendo 64 as the company "couldn't come out with any concrete ideas".[30] Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto said he could not imagine how the Nintendo 64 controller could be used to control Samus. Nintendo approached another company to make Metroid for Nintendo 64, but the offer was declined, supposedly because the developers thought they could not equal Super Metroid.[31]

Metroid Prime was a collaboration between Nintendo EAD and R&D1 and the American company Retro Studios. Retro was created in 1998 by an alliance between Nintendo and Iguana Entertainment founder Jeff Spangenberg. The studio would create games for the forthcoming GameCube targeted at a mature demographic.[32] After establishing its offices in Austin, Texas in 1999, Retro worked on four GameCube projects. When Miyamoto visited Retro in 2000, he suggested a new Metroid game after seeing their prototype first-person shooter engine.[33] In 2000 and early 2001, four games in development at Retro were canceled,[34] including an RPG, Raven Blade, leaving Prime the only game in development.[35] During the last nine months of development, Retro's staff worked 80- to 100-hour weeks to reach Nintendo's deadline.[33] According to senior artist James Dargie, it took them almost six months to do the first level that Nintendo approved, and then they had less than a year to do the rest of the game.[36] Concept artist Android Jones, a lifelong fan of the series whose work included Samus's Varia Suit and most of the art in the Scan Visor, would sleep in the office and resume working when he woke up.[37]

We didn't want to make just another first person shooter. ... Making a first person shooter would have been a cheap and easy way to go. But making sure the themes and concepts in Metroid were kept was something that we wanted to do. And translating those things into 3D was a real challenge. For example, translating the morph ball was one of the hardest things to do.

—Michael Kelbaugh, Retro Studios president since 2003[38]

Nintendo created the music, Retro handled art and engineering, and both teams worked on the overall design.[1] The Japanese crew, which included producers Miyamoto, Kensuke Tanabe, Kenji Miki, and designer and Metroid co-creator Sakamoto, communicated with Retro through e-mails, telephone conferences and personal gatherings. The game was planned to use a third-person perspective, but after Miyamoto intervened this was changed to first-person perspective and almost everything already developed was scrapped. The change was prompted by camera problems experienced by Rare, which was developing the Nintendo 64 game Jet Force Gemini. According to director Mark Pacini, Miyamoto believed that "shooting in third person was not very intuitive"; Pacini also said that exploration is easier using first-person.[38] Pacini said that after picking that perspective, the crew decided not to make a traditional first-person shooter, instead they had to break down the stereotypes of what a first-person game is and make a fun Metroid game.[1]

Pacini said that Retro tried to design the game so that the only difficult parts would be boss battles and players would not be afraid to explore because "the challenge of the game was finding your way around".[39] Senior designer Mike Wikan said that the focus on exploration led the team to spend time making the platform jumping "approachable to the player", and to ensure the gameplay had "shooting [as] a very important, though secondary, consideration".[40] Retro developed the storyline under the supervision of Yoshio Sakamoto, who verified that the ideas were consistent with the earlier games.[20] The developers intended that Kraid, a boss from Metroid and Super Metroid, would appear in Metroid Prime, and designer Gene Kohler modeled and skinned him for that purpose, but he was cut for time reasons.[41] The team considered implementing the Speed Booster power-up from Super Metroid but concluded it would not work well because of the first-person perspective and "limitations imposed by the scale of our environment".[40]

The first public appearance of the game was a ten-second video at Space World 2000.[42] In November of the same year, Retro Studios confirmed its involvement with the game in the "job application" part of its website.[43] In February 2001, the game was confirmed by Nintendo, which also announced that because of its emphasis on exploration and despite the first-person perspective, Metroid Prime would be a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter.[6] The game was showcased at E3 2001 in May, with its title confirmed as Metroid Prime.[44]

Audio

Kenji Yamamoto, assisted by Kouichi Kyuma, composed the music for Prime.[45] The soundtrack contains arrangements of tracks from previous games in the series because Yamamoto wanted to satisfy old Metroid fans.[46] The initial Tallon Overworld theme is a reinterpretation of Metroid's Brinstar theme, the music heard in Magmoor Caverns is a new version of the music from Super Metroid's Lower Norfair area, and the music heard during the fight with Meta Ridley is a fast-paced reimagining of the Ridley boss music first featured in Super Metroid—which has reappeared in most Metroid games since. Tommy Tallarico Studios initially provided sound effects for the game,[47] but Miyamoto deemed them not good enough for an extended presentation at Space World 2001.[48] The game supports Dolby Pro Logic II setups and can be played in surround sound.[16] A soundtrack album, Metroid Prime & Fusion Original Soundtracks, was published by Scitron on June 18, 2003.[49]

Release

Metroid Prime was released for the GameCube in North America on November 18, 2002. In 2003, the game arrived in Japan on February 28, and Europe on March 21.[50][51][52][53] In 2004, Nintendo released a Metroid Prime GameCube bundle, including a second disc featuring a trailer and a demo for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, a timeline of Metroid games, and an art gallery.[54][55]

Metroid Prime was re-released in Japan in 2009 for the Wii as part of the New Play Control! series. It has improved controls that use the Wii Remote's pointing functionality, bonus content and the ability to take screenshots of gameplay.[56] In other countries, this version was released in the Wii compilation Metroid Prime: Trilogy.[57] The compilation became available for download from the Wii U's Nintendo eShop in January 2015.[58][59]

Remastered

Metroid Prime Remastered

Metroid Prime
Remastered
 
Developer(s)Retro Studios[a]
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Dylan Jobe
Producer(s)
Programmer(s)
  • Ryan Cornelius
  • Bharathwaj Nandakumar
Artist(s)
  • Jhony Ljungstedt
  • Joseph Harford
  • Chad Newhouse
SeriesMetroid
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
Release
  • WW: February 8, 2023
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Sometime in 2021, rumors started to circulate that there might be an official port of Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Switch. However, when game designer Mike Wikan denied the rumors, stating it to be a "Herculean effort" to port it to the console due to technical issues, it led to fan outrage on the Internet.[61][62]

In a Nintendo Direct presentation on February 8, 2023, Nintendo announced Metroid Prime Remastered, a high-definition remaster for the Nintendo Switch.[63] It was released digitally later that day, with a physical release on February 22 in North America and March 3 in Europe and Japan.[64][65] The remaster was developed by Retro Studios with assistance from developers including Iron Galaxy Studios.[66] The remaster features new visuals, updated control schemes (including an option for dual-stick controls) and new unlockable art.[67]

Metroid Prime Remastered was acclaimed by critics.[68] Samuel Claiborn of IGN described it as "a perfect example of how to both honor a lauded classic and bring it up to code".[69] It was however criticized for not crediting the developers of previous versions of Metroid Prime by name, instead crediting them as "original Nintendo GameCube and Wii version development staff".[70][71]

Reception

Metroid Prime became one of the best-selling games on the GameCube. It was the second-best-selling game of November 2002 in North America, behind Grand Theft Auto: Vice City;[87] 250,000 units were sold in the first week of its release.[88] As of July 2006, the game had sold more than 1.49 million copies in the U.S. alone,[89] and had earned more than US$50 million.[90] It was also the eighth-bestselling GameCube game in Australia.[91] More than 78,000 copies were sold in Japan,[92] and Nintendo added the game to its Player's Choice line in the PAL region.[93] It sold 2.84 million copies worldwide[7] and was the best-selling Metroid game until Metroid Dread (2022).[94]

Metroid Prime received "universal acclaim", according to Metacritic.[8] Electronic Gaming Monthly awarded it a perfect score.[74] It won numerous Game of the Year awards and was praised for its detailed graphics, special effects, varied environments,[95] moody soundtrack and sound effects,[10] level design,[96] immersive atmosphere[9] and innovative gameplay centered on exploration in contrast with action games such as Halo,[97] while staying faithful to the Metroid formula.[98] Criticisms included the unusual control scheme, lack of focus on the story, and repetitive backtracking. Game Informer considered the control scheme awkward,[75] Entertainment Weekly compared the game to a "1990s arcade game, filled with over the top battle sequences, spectacular visual effects—and a pretty weak plot",[99] and GamePro wrote that inexperienced players "might find it exhausting to keep revisiting the same old places over and over and over".[100] In 2004, the video game countdown show Filter said Metroid Prime had the best graphics of all time.[101]

Metroid Prime appeared on several lists of best games; it was ranked 23rd in IGN's Top 100,[102] 29th in a 100-game list chosen by GameFAQs users,[103] 18th in Official Nintendo Magazine's 2009 list of greatest Nintendo games[104] and 10th in Nintendo Power's "Top 200 Nintendo Games Ever".[105] IGN named Metroid Prime the best GameCube game,[106] while GameSpy ranked it third in a similar list, behind The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Resident Evil 4.[107] Nintendo Power also ranked Metroid Prime as the sixth-best game of the 2000s.[108] Wired ranked the game 10th in its list of "The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade" for popularizing "exploration, puzzle-solving, platforming and story" among first-person shooters, saying that the game was "breaking the genre free from the clutches of Doom". Wired's writer continued that Metroid Prime took a massive stride forward for first-person games.[109] Metroid Prime also became popular among players for speedrunning; specialized communities were formed to share these speed runs.[110]

Legacy

Metroid Prime was followed by Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004) on the GameCube and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007) on the Wii. They were rereleased on Wii as part of the New Play Control! series in Japan, and as part of the Wii compilation Metroid Prime: Trilogy (2009). A pinball game, Metroid Prime Pinball (2005), and the action spin-offs Metroid Prime Hunters (2006)[111] were released for the handheld Nintendo DS console, and Metroid Prime: Federation Force (2016) for the Nintendo 3DS. In 2017, Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4 for the Nintendo Switch. It was reportedly initially developed by Bandai Namco Studios.[112] In January 2019, the development restarted under Retro.[113]

Elements of Metroid Prime have appeared in games such as the Super Smash Bros series, in which the Frigate Orpheon is a playable stage, with the Parasite Queen in the background and music from Metroid Prime.[114][115] Metroid Prime's gameplay and HUDs influenced and was compared to first-person shooters such as Geist[116] and Star Wars: Republic Commando.[117] A demo of a 2D fangame version of Metroid Prime was released in April 2021.[118] The development was forced to end by that August.[119]

Notes

  1. ^ Additional work by Iron Galaxy Studios, Airship Images Limited, Atomhawk Design, CGBot, Gamesim Inc, Liquid Development, Original Force LTD, Shanghai Mineloader Digital Technology, and Zombot Studio.[60]

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External links

  • Metroid Prime & Fusion Original Soundtracks at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

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Metroid Prime is an action adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube 1 Metroid Prime is the fifth main Metroid game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first person perspective It was released in North America in November 2002 and in Japan and Europe the following year Along with the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion released a day before Prime marked the return of the Metroid series after an eight year hiatus following Super Metroid 1994 2 3 Metroid PrimeNorth American and PAL region box artDeveloper s Retro StudiosPublisher s NintendoDirector s Mark PaciniProducer s Shigeru MiyamotoKensuke TanabeKenji MikiAkira OtaniMichael MannProgrammer s Mark JohnstonArtist s Todd KellerComposer s Kenji YamamotoKouichi KyumaSeriesMetroidPlatform s GameCubeWiiReleaseNovember 18 2002 GameCubeNA November 18 2002BRA December 15 2002JP February 28 2003EU March 21 2003AU April 3 2003WiiJP February 19 2009Genre s Action adventureMode s Single playerMetroid Prime takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II Return of Samus 4 5 Players control the bounty hunter Samus Aran as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV Metroid Prime was a collaboration between Retro in Austin Texas and Japanese Nintendo employees including producers Shigeru Miyamoto and Kensuke Tanabe Miyamoto suggested the project after visiting Retro s headquarters in 2000 Since exploration takes precedence over combat Nintendo described the game as a first person adventure rather than a first person shooter 6 Metroid Prime received acclaim and sold more than 2 8 million copies worldwide 7 It won a number of Game of the Year awards and is widely regarded by many critics to be one of the greatest video games of all time remaining one of the highest rated games on Metacritic 8 Metroid Prime was followed by Metroid Prime 2 Echoes 2004 and Metroid Prime 3 Corruption 2007 Metroid Prime 4 was announced in 2017 In 2009 an enhanced version of Metroid Prime was released for the Wii in Japan and as part of the Metroid Prime Trilogy compilation internationally A high definition remastered version was released on the Nintendo Switch in 2023 Contents 1 Gameplay 1 1 Items 2 Plot 2 1 Setting 2 2 Story 3 Development 3 1 Audio 4 Release 5 Remastered 5 1 Metroid Prime Remastered 6 Reception 7 Legacy 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksGameplay Edit Samus in battle with a Flying Pirate The player character is controlled from a first person perspective Metroid Prime is a 3D action adventure game in which players control series protagonist Samus Aran from a first person perspective unlike previous games of the Metroid series 9 10 with third person elements used for Morph Ball mode 9 The gameplay involves solving puzzles to reveal secrets platform jumping and shooting foes with the help of a lock on mechanism that allows circle strafing while staying aimed at the enemy 9 10 Samus must travel through the world of Tallon IV searching for twelve Chozo Artifacts that will open the path to the Phazon meteor impact crater while collecting power ups that let her reach new areas The Varia Suit for example protects Samus armor against high temperatures allowing her to enter volcanic regions Some items are obtained after boss fights Items must be collected in a specific order for example players cannot access certain areas until they find a certain Beam to open doors or discover new ordnance with which to beat bosses 11 12 Players are incentivized to explore to find upgrades such as ammunition packs and extra health 13 The heads up display which simulates the inside of Samus helmet features a radar display a map ammunition for missiles a health meter a danger meter for negotiating hazardous landscape or materials and a health bar and name display for bosses The display can be altered by exchanging visors one uses thermal imaging another has x ray vision and another features a scanner that searches for enemy weaknesses and interfaces with mechanisms such as force fields and elevators 11 The game introduces a hint system that provides the player with clues about ways to progress through the game 14 Players can gain two features by connecting Prime with Metroid Fusion using a GameCube Game Boy Advance link cable cosmetic use of the Fusion Suit that Samus wears in Fusion and the ability to play the original Metroid game 11 15 Items Edit While Samus is in Morph Ball form the view changes to a third person view Throughout the game players must find and collect items that improve Samus s arsenal and suit including weapons armor upgrades for Samus s Power Suit and items that grant abilities including the Morph Ball which allows Samus to compress herself into a ball in order to roll into narrow passages and drop energy bombs and the Grapple Beam which works by latching onto special hooks called grapple points allowing Samus to swing across gaps Unlike those in earlier games in the series the beam weapons in Metroid Prime have no stacking ability in which the traits of each beam merge Instead the player must cycle the four beam weapons there are charge combos with radically different effects for each Other upgrades include boots that allow Samus to double jump and a Spider Ball upgrade that allows her to climb magnetic rails 11 Items from previous Metroid games appear with altered functions Art galleries and different endings are unlockable if the player collects a high percentage of items and Scan Visor logs Prime is one of the first Metroid games to address the reason Samus does not start with power ups acquired in previous games she begins the game with some upgrades including the Varia Suit Missiles and Grapple Beam but they are lost during an explosion on the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon 16 The producers stated that starting with some power ups was a way to give the player different things to do and to learn the functions of these items before settling into the core gameplay 17 Plot EditSetting Edit Retro Studios wrote an extensive storyline for Metroid Prime 20 which was considered a major difference from previous Metroid games Short cutscenes appear before important battles and a scanner in the heads up display extracts backstory related information from objects 10 The Prime trilogy is set between the events of Metroid and Metroid II 4 5 The game takes place on the planet Tallon IV formerly inhabited by the Chozo race 21 Five decades ago the Chozo race fell after a meteor impacted on Tallon IV The meteor contaminated the planet with a corruptive mutagenic substance that the Space Pirates later named Phazon 21 22 and also brought with it a creature known to the Chozo as The Worm 23 A large containment field emitter of the Artifact Temple in the Tallon Overworld area was built as a seal to the meteor s energies and influence within the crater where it landed 24 which the Space Pirates attempt to disable or bypass in order to gain better access to extract the Phazon 25 The containment field is controlled by twelve Chozo artifacts that are scattered around the planet 11 26 Story Edit Samus Aran intercepts a distress signal from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon whose crew have been slaughtered by the Pirates own genetically modified experimental subjects using a mysterious radioactive substance called Phazon At the ship s core she battles with the Parasite Queen a giant version of the tiny parasites aboard the ship The Parasite Queen is defeated and falls into the ship s reactor core initiating the destruction of the ship While Samus is escaping from the frigate she encounters a cybernetic version of Ridley called Meta Ridley who also escapes During her escape an explosion damages Samus s suit causing some of her abilities to malfunction Samus escapes the frigate and chases Ridley in her gunship towards the nearby planet Tallon IV 27 28 After landing in the Tallon Overworld Samus explores nearby areas of Tallon IV and discovers ruins of an ancient Chozo settlement As she explores the ruins she learns that the Chozo on the planet had been killed off by the Phazon infesting the planet which originated from a meteor that impacted on the planet many years ago After regaining her lost abilities in the ruins as well as defeating a mutated plant creature that was poisoning the local water supply Samus finds her way to the Magmoor Caverns a series of magma filled tunnels which are used by the Space Pirates as a source of geothermal power Following the tunnels Samus travels to the Phendrana Drifts a cold mountainous location which is home to another ancient Chozo ruin and a Space Pirate research lab used to study the Metroids After obtaining new abilities Samus explores the wreckage of the crashed Orpheon and then infiltrates the Phazon Mines where she learns the outcome of the Phazon experimentation project including the Metroid Prime a creature that had come to Tallon IV with the meteor Advancing deeper into the mines Samus fights her way through the Phazon enhanced Space Pirates and obtains the Phazon Suit after defeating the monstrous Omega Pirate 27 28 At some point Samus discovers the Artifact Temple that the Chozo built to contain the Metroid Prime and to stop the Phazon from spreading over the planet To gain access to the meteor s Impact Crater Samus must collect and unite the twelve Chozo artifacts As Samus returns to the temple with the artifacts Meta Ridley appears and attacks her Samus defeats Ridley and enters the Impact Crater where she finds the Metroid Prime After she defeats it the Metroid Prime absorbs Samus s Phazon Suit and explodes Samus escapes the collapsing crater and leaves Tallon IV in her ship 27 28 If the player completes the game with all of the items obtained Metroid Prime reconstructs itself into a body resembling Samus 29 Development EditFurther information Retro Studios 1998 2002 Creation and Metroid Prime Concept artwork of the Impact Crater According to producer Shigeru Miyamoto Nintendo did not develop a Metroid game for the Nintendo 64 as the company couldn t come out with any concrete ideas 30 Metroid co creator Yoshio Sakamoto said he could not imagine how the Nintendo 64 controller could be used to control Samus Nintendo approached another company to make Metroid for Nintendo 64 but the offer was declined supposedly because the developers thought they could not equal Super Metroid 31 Metroid Prime was a collaboration between Nintendo EAD and R amp D1 and the American company Retro Studios Retro was created in 1998 by an alliance between Nintendo and Iguana Entertainment founder Jeff Spangenberg The studio would create games for the forthcoming GameCube targeted at a mature demographic 32 After establishing its offices in Austin Texas in 1999 Retro worked on four GameCube projects When Miyamoto visited Retro in 2000 he suggested a new Metroid game after seeing their prototype first person shooter engine 33 In 2000 and early 2001 four games in development at Retro were canceled 34 including an RPG Raven Blade leaving Prime the only game in development 35 During the last nine months of development Retro s staff worked 80 to 100 hour weeks to reach Nintendo s deadline 33 According to senior artist James Dargie it took them almost six months to do the first level that Nintendo approved and then they had less than a year to do the rest of the game 36 Concept artist Android Jones a lifelong fan of the series whose work included Samus s Varia Suit and most of the art in the Scan Visor would sleep in the office and resume working when he woke up 37 We didn t want to make just another first person shooter Making a first person shooter would have been a cheap and easy way to go But making sure the themes and concepts in Metroid were kept was something that we wanted to do And translating those things into 3D was a real challenge For example translating the morph ball was one of the hardest things to do Michael Kelbaugh Retro Studios president since 2003 38 Nintendo created the music Retro handled art and engineering and both teams worked on the overall design 1 The Japanese crew which included producers Miyamoto Kensuke Tanabe Kenji Miki and designer and Metroid co creator Sakamoto communicated with Retro through e mails telephone conferences and personal gatherings The game was planned to use a third person perspective but after Miyamoto intervened this was changed to first person perspective and almost everything already developed was scrapped The change was prompted by camera problems experienced by Rare which was developing the Nintendo 64 game Jet Force Gemini According to director Mark Pacini Miyamoto believed that shooting in third person was not very intuitive Pacini also said that exploration is easier using first person 38 Pacini said that after picking that perspective the crew decided not to make a traditional first person shooter instead they had to break down the stereotypes of what a first person game is and make a fun Metroid game 1 Pacini said that Retro tried to design the game so that the only difficult parts would be boss battles and players would not be afraid to explore because the challenge of the game was finding your way around 39 Senior designer Mike Wikan said that the focus on exploration led the team to spend time making the platform jumping approachable to the player and to ensure the gameplay had shooting as a very important though secondary consideration 40 Retro developed the storyline under the supervision of Yoshio Sakamoto who verified that the ideas were consistent with the earlier games 20 The developers intended that Kraid a boss from Metroid and Super Metroid would appear in Metroid Prime and designer Gene Kohler modeled and skinned him for that purpose but he was cut for time reasons 41 The team considered implementing the Speed Booster power up from Super Metroid but concluded it would not work well because of the first person perspective and limitations imposed by the scale of our environment 40 The first public appearance of the game was a ten second video at Space World 2000 42 In November of the same year Retro Studios confirmed its involvement with the game in the job application part of its website 43 In February 2001 the game was confirmed by Nintendo which also announced that because of its emphasis on exploration and despite the first person perspective Metroid Prime would be a first person adventure rather than a first person shooter 6 The game was showcased at E3 2001 in May with its title confirmed as Metroid Prime 44 Audio Edit Kenji Yamamoto assisted by Kouichi Kyuma composed the music for Prime 45 The soundtrack contains arrangements of tracks from previous games in the series because Yamamoto wanted to satisfy old Metroid fans 46 The initial Tallon Overworld theme is a reinterpretation of Metroid s Brinstar theme the music heard in Magmoor Caverns is a new version of the music from Super Metroid s Lower Norfair area and the music heard during the fight with Meta Ridley is a fast paced reimagining of the Ridley boss music first featured in Super Metroid which has reappeared in most Metroid games since Tommy Tallarico Studios initially provided sound effects for the game 47 but Miyamoto deemed them not good enough for an extended presentation at Space World 2001 48 The game supports Dolby Pro Logic II setups and can be played in surround sound 16 A soundtrack album Metroid Prime amp Fusion Original Soundtracks was published by Scitron on June 18 2003 49 Release EditMetroid Prime was released for the GameCube in North America on November 18 2002 In 2003 the game arrived in Japan on February 28 and Europe on March 21 50 51 52 53 In 2004 Nintendo released a Metroid Prime GameCube bundle including a second disc featuring a trailer and a demo for Metroid Prime 2 Echoes a timeline of Metroid games and an art gallery 54 55 Metroid Prime was re released in Japan in 2009 for the Wii as part of the New Play Control series It has improved controls that use the Wii Remote s pointing functionality bonus content and the ability to take screenshots of gameplay 56 In other countries this version was released in the Wii compilation Metroid Prime Trilogy 57 The compilation became available for download from the Wii U s Nintendo eShop in January 2015 58 59 Remastered EditMetroid Prime Remastered Edit Metroid PrimeRemastered Developer s Retro Studios a Publisher s NintendoDirector s Dylan JobeProducer s Marisa PalumboAlex ChatfieldKensuke TanabeProgrammer s Ryan CorneliusBharathwaj NandakumarArtist s Jhony LjungstedtJoseph HarfordChad NewhouseSeriesMetroidPlatform s Nintendo SwitchReleaseWW February 8 2023Genre s Action adventureMode s Single playerSometime in 2021 rumors started to circulate that there might be an official port of Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Switch However when game designer Mike Wikan denied the rumors stating it to be a Herculean effort to port it to the console due to technical issues it led to fan outrage on the Internet 61 62 In a Nintendo Direct presentation on February 8 2023 Nintendo announced Metroid Prime Remastered a high definition remaster for the Nintendo Switch 63 It was released digitally later that day with a physical release on February 22 in North America and March 3 in Europe and Japan 64 65 The remaster was developed by Retro Studios with assistance from developers including Iron Galaxy Studios 66 The remaster features new visuals updated control schemes including an option for dual stick controls and new unlockable art 67 Metroid Prime Remastered was acclaimed by critics 68 Samuel Claiborn of IGN described it as a perfect example of how to both honor a lauded classic and bring it up to code 69 It was however criticized for not crediting the developers of previous versions of Metroid Prime by name instead crediting them as original Nintendo GameCube and Wii version development staff 70 71 Reception EditReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScoreMetacritic97 100 70 reviews 8 Remastered 94 100 92 reviews 68 Review scoresPublicationScoreAllGame 72 Edge9 10 73 Electronic Gaming Monthly10 10 74 Game Informer9 5 10 75 GameSpot9 7 10 9 GameSpy96 100 16 IGN9 8 10 10 10 10 Remastered 69 Nintendo Power 76 AwardsPublicationAwardIGNEditor s Choice 2002 Best GameCube Game 77 2002 Game of the Year runner up 78 GameSpotEditor s Choice 2002 Game of the Year 79 GameSpy2002 Game of the Year 80 Electronic Gaming MonthlyPlatinum Award Game of the Year 2002 81 Nintendo PowerGame of the Year 2002 82 EdgeEditor s Choice 2002 Game of the Year 83 Interactive Achievement AwardsConsole First Person Action 6th annual 84 Game Developers Choice AwardsGame of the Year Excellence in Level Design 2003 85 The Michigan DailyBest Video Game of 2002 86 Metroid Prime became one of the best selling games on the GameCube It was the second best selling game of November 2002 in North America behind Grand Theft Auto Vice City 87 250 000 units were sold in the first week of its release 88 As of July 2006 the game had sold more than 1 49 million copies in the U S alone 89 and had earned more than US 50 million 90 It was also the eighth bestselling GameCube game in Australia 91 More than 78 000 copies were sold in Japan 92 and Nintendo added the game to its Player s Choice line in the PAL region 93 It sold 2 84 million copies worldwide 7 and was the best selling Metroid game until Metroid Dread 2022 94 Metroid Prime received universal acclaim according to Metacritic 8 Electronic Gaming Monthly awarded it a perfect score 74 It won numerous Game of the Year awards and was praised for its detailed graphics special effects varied environments 95 moody soundtrack and sound effects 10 level design 96 immersive atmosphere 9 and innovative gameplay centered on exploration in contrast with action games such as Halo 97 while staying faithful to the Metroid formula 98 Criticisms included the unusual control scheme lack of focus on the story and repetitive backtracking Game Informer considered the control scheme awkward 75 Entertainment Weekly compared the game to a 1990s arcade game filled with over the top battle sequences spectacular visual effects and a pretty weak plot 99 and GamePro wrote that inexperienced players might find it exhausting to keep revisiting the same old places over and over and over 100 In 2004 the video game countdown show Filter said Metroid Prime had the best graphics of all time 101 Metroid Prime appeared on several lists of best games it was ranked 23rd in IGN s Top 100 102 29th in a 100 game list chosen by GameFAQs users 103 18th in Official Nintendo Magazine s 2009 list of greatest Nintendo games 104 and 10th in Nintendo Power s Top 200 Nintendo Games Ever 105 IGN named Metroid Prime the best GameCube game 106 while GameSpy ranked it third in a similar list behind The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker and Resident Evil 4 107 Nintendo Power also ranked Metroid Prime as the sixth best game of the 2000s 108 Wired ranked the game 10th in its list of The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade for popularizing exploration puzzle solving platforming and story among first person shooters saying that the game was breaking the genre free from the clutches of Doom Wired s writer continued that Metroid Prime took a massive stride forward for first person games 109 Metroid Prime also became popular among players for speedrunning specialized communities were formed to share these speed runs 110 Legacy EditMetroid Prime was followed by Metroid Prime 2 Echoes 2004 on the GameCube and Metroid Prime 3 Corruption 2007 on the Wii They were rereleased on Wii as part of the New Play Control series in Japan and as part of the Wii compilation Metroid Prime Trilogy 2009 A pinball game Metroid Prime Pinball 2005 and the action spin offs Metroid Prime Hunters 2006 111 were released for the handheld Nintendo DS console and Metroid Prime Federation Force 2016 for the Nintendo 3DS In 2017 Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4 for the Nintendo Switch It was reportedly initially developed by Bandai Namco Studios 112 In January 2019 the development restarted under Retro 113 Elements of Metroid Prime have appeared in games such as the Super Smash Bros series in which the Frigate Orpheon is a playable stage with the Parasite Queen in the background and music from Metroid Prime 114 115 Metroid Prime s gameplay and HUDs influenced and was compared to first person shooters such as Geist 116 and Star Wars Republic Commando 117 A demo of a 2D fangame version of Metroid Prime was released in April 2021 118 The development was forced to end by that August 119 Notes Edit Additional work by Iron Galaxy Studios Airship Images Limited Atomhawk Design CGBot Gamesim Inc Liquid Development Original Force LTD Shanghai Mineloader Digital Technology and Zombot Studio 60 References Edit a b c Padilla Raymond November 12 2002 The Road to Metroid Prime GameSpy Archived from the original on 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