I recently received a copy of Metroid Prime 3 Corruption in the mail and was excited to give it a try, for those of you that may not be familiar this game was one of hte main reasons Nintendo players got eh Wii. Up until now there isn’t much out there in Wii land that isn’t tooth decayingly cute or boil down to a bunch of not so great mini games, Metroid Prime 3 changes this.
First off in the short couple of hours I got a chance to play I quickly realised that the incorporation of the Wii controls was done very well, I was afraid it would feel forced. There is one seemless story based upon Samus of course that has you solving puzzles, blasting mosters, rolling under platforms and just having a great time.
The colors are much richer and darker than any game I have seen on the Wii yet and graphics are pretty decent. The sound is rich and really brings you into the game and the controls are right on and take full advantage of the Wii sensor bar. So far the game has surpassed my expectations and it is the first game that I have played on the Wii that doesn’t make you feel like a tool while you are playing.
Look for the full review shortly.
So is it safe to assume that this one is a definite “buy”?
I’ve been looking forward to this since I started watching the trailer vids on the “metroid channel”. My main concern was also how they were going to handle the controls. If they are smooth and fairly intuitive, then I’ll probably pick this one up.
Looking forward to the full review.
So far it is looking like a solid buy. The controls are pretty kool, they dont feel cheesy, I wont ruin too much until the full review but you use both the nunchuk and the remote pretty intuitively so far. My biggest gripe is shooting wiht the remote since you dont hold it like a gun it feels silly ot shoot things with a remote control.
Well, if that’ s the case you can bet someone will be making a gun shaped wii-mote holder for this game much akin to the sword/shield combo for zelda and the tennis racket, baseball bat, golf club, etc. for wii sports…
Speaking of that, I saw a picture of the guitar controller for GH3 for Wii, and it looks like you plug the wii-mote into the body of the guitar somehow… interesting concept…. have you seen anything about this?