E3 2007: Metroid Prime Corruption coming August 27 and it’s freaking awesome

I knew it would su- WHAT?!?

indeed. actual games FTW//can't wait to see it

Oh all those naysayers! I want to rub this in their face!

MP3 ftw!

brb, gotta change underwear


ooo baby.

I have Metroid Prime 2. I was hoping to finish before August when Prime 3 comes out...only now I hear it's October over here. So I have a few more months at the expense of probably an awesome game.

I think if the game is really all that it's hyped up to be, it'll be the catalyst that will bring me to own a Wii this year.

I'll have to wait till Christmas time, but still.

Rawk.

I feel this game will kind of be a sleeper hit. Not a full on Sleeper hit cause a bunch of ppl will play it but not as many asthat should

So does it actually shoot where you are pointing, or does it auto aim at what you are "locked" onto?

Hmm Very interesting.

Sound's great, I was fairly confident Retro was going to do a good job with the controls. What's up with the weird new armor though? It doesn't look like the corruption mode we've heard about, but it seems like small details on it change frequently. New upgrades? Customizable armor? Makeshift repairs related to the story? I must know!

I wonder if I will have any free time once this comes out?

I'm going to be sooo broke in the coming months...but hella excited

Man, a whole shitload of awesome Nintendo news today. MP:C and SMG are must-haves for the Wii that do everything right, apparently. Awesome :)

Awesome. One of a mere handful of brightspots out of E3.

UT3 is still delayed for me, so this will have to do.

(swallows and smiles through clinched teeth)

I think I might rename my Wii "Metroid Prime 3 Player.

This is excellent news. I knew the Wii had it in it to pull out some great FPSs.

I still need to play the second one... Really like the "orbiting" feature.

@Crunchii - Hmm, controlling a FPS smoothly and easily with a pointing device and a single analog stick. Yeah, that's exactly like the dual analog setup, so I agree, nothing at all new and different about MP3. Just another FPS. Well, except for all the stuff unique to metroid prime games, like scanning and scouring for weapons, and backtracking, it's just another FPS. Oh, and that pointything is probably going to be a little different, but no, nothing new really, just another FPS.

What is it going to take to view a new control scheme as a marked improvement on the current mostly-stale state of the FP(anything) genre? Even games like Breakdown which were amazingly conceived and incredibly poorly executed due to the inadequacy of the analog sticks that haven't changed at all since the days of the dual shock. Yeah, sensitivity goes up, and reliability goes up as technology gets better, but the human to game interface hasn't changed at all. Computers have touch screens now, and look at the iPhone. Compare it to input devices on mobile phones as little as five years ago. Remember big rubbery buttons on a cell phone the size of a lunchbox? Apparently none of you played keyboard ASCII games, and were amazed at the neat stuff you could do with a mouse. No new-tech lust here. Just denial. Dirty, dirty denial.

oh Stripe, you crusty old bat. Learn to love, love to learn. Sure, there may not be anything dramatically new with MP3, but after playing RE4 with the Wii controls, I must admit, I am fucking STOKED for this title. Oh, and no, nobody remembers your big rubbery cell phone buttons. I talk to my cell phone, and it dials for me. VOICE COMMAND FTW!

Oh, and RE4 with the 'mote aiming FTW. I just hope RE5 hits for the Wii at launch, too.

nice answer stripe. I play the Wii once in a while, but honestly, I think of Metroid as a mega classic just like Symphony of the Night. for my taste I would love if nintendo did metroid in 2D sidescroller just like the old times but with prob more sick stuff.

I just finished playing Odin's Sphere and wow that was addictive 2D sidescroller rpg with high visuals. hope nintendo reads this >_>;

Crunshii, you could always ask 'em really nicely to put out Super Metroid on the VC.

Or they could actually come out with a 2D version of Metroid, but they'd probably mess it all up... Anyone want to play some Super Paper Metroid?