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Metroid Prime is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the GameCube video game console.[3] It was released in North America on November 17, 2002, and in Japan and Europe the following year. Metroid Prime is the fifth main installment in the Metroid series, and the first Metroid game to use 3D computer graphics. Because exploration takes precedence over combat, Nintendo classifies the game as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter.[4] On the same day as its North American release, Nintendo also released the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, marking the return of the Metroid series after an eight-year hiatus following Super Metroid (1994).[5][6]
Metroid Prime is the first of the three-part Prime storyline, which takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus.[7][8] Like previous games in the series, Metroid Prime has a science fiction setting in which players control the bounty hunter Samus Aran. The story follows Samus as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV. The game was a collaboration between Retro's staff in Austin, Texas, and Japanese Nintendo employees, including producer Shigeru Miyamoto, who suggested the project after visiting Retro's headquarters in 2000.
The game garnered critical praise and commercial success, selling more than a million units in North America alone.[9] It won a number of Game of the Year awards, and it is considered by many critics and gamers to be one of the greatest video games ever made, remaining one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic.[10] In 2009, an enhanced version was released for the Wii as a standalone game in Japan, and as part of the Metroid Prime Trilogy compilation internationally.[11]
Contents
1 Synopsis
1.1 Background and setting
1.2 Plot
2 Gameplay
2.1 Items
3 Development
3.1 Audio
3.2 Versions
4 Reception
4.1 Franchise and other media
5 References
6 External links
Synopsis
Background and setting
Metroid Prime is the first of the three-part Prime storyline. Retro Studios wrote an extensive storyline for Metroid Prime,[12] 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.[13] The Prime trilogy is set between the events of Metroid and Metroid II,[7][8] but according to some sources, including Brazil's former Nintendo distributor Gradiente and the Nintendo Power comics adaptation of Metroid Prime, the events in the Prime games occur after Super Metroid.[14][15] The Brazilian publicity states that the Phazon meteor is a piece of Zebes, which was destroyed after Super Metroid.[14] However, one of the logbook entries from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption reveals that the meteor was a "Leviathan" from the planet Phaaze.[16]
The game takes place on the planet Tallon IV, formerly inhabited by the Chozo race.[17] Five decades before the game's events, the Chozo race fell after a meteor crashed onto Tallon IV. This meteor contaminated the planet with a corruptive, mutagenic substance that the Space Pirates later named "Phazon",[17][18] and also brought with it a creature known to the Chozo as "The Worm".[19] A large containment field emitter of the "Artifact Temple" in the Tallon Overworld area was designed as a seal to the meteor's energies and influence within the crater where it landed,[20] which the Space Pirates attempt to disable or bypass in order to gain better access in order to extract the Phazon.[21] The containment field is controlled by twelve Chozo artifacts that are scattered around the planet.[22][23] The player assumes the role of the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who receives a distress signal from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon and travels to Tallon IV to investigate and stop the Space Pirate activity she found. Her investigation leads her to stop the Space Pirates from exploiting Phazon and stop the spread of Phazon on Tallon IV.[17][22]
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