A great game
User Rating: 9.3 | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes GC
Like the first Prime, female bounty hunter Samus Aran's second GameCube mission is a must-play, and for several of the same reasons. The environments are huge and exhaustingly detailed, instantly sucking you into this first-person adventure. Now throw into the mix an alternate dimension to explore, and the whole adventure element grows significantly. And you might as well get your trigger finger in shape, too combat is more intense this go around, thanks to tougher routine enemies, a heavy dose of minibosses, and very memorable main boss battles that require as much skill and strategy as the space they take up onscreen. And as with the original Prime, Echoes is visually intoxicating. Just take a walk through the neon-lit hallways of the Tron-esque sanctuary, and you'll see exactly what I mean. If anything is a disappointment, it's the all-new multiplayer mode; the game's lock-on targeting just doesn't lend itself very well to a four-player fragfest, and the options are severely limited. That's all brothers.