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Anyone see the new Prime 2 Ad?
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I saw it on Adult Swim, on 10/20, and it was on during the first commercial break on Futurama. It was only 15 seconds long, but I liked it. So....anybody see it?
I see it's now on Fox, and daytime Cartoon Network, but I don't know of any other updates on other networks yet. Maybe TNT or FX, possibly G4-TechTV and Spike, but I don't watch those as often. I'd like to see a little more effort put in, like they did for the previous game 2 years ago. Remember that? Check the Metroid Prime page, and see the trailer. Cool. I hope the new ad surpasses that. Tell me if I don't post it first.
Thanks.
The Metroid Universe
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Yeah, we've all heard that Metroid games are great--I think they're freaking sweet. I have played most of the games, and I even have the bonus disc that features a playable demo of Metroid Prime 2. I'll just say it now: I'm a Metroid freak. I'll give ya the skinny on my favorite games. They're sorted by release date.
Metroid: The original game created in 1986 for the Famicom disc system and the NES. By today's standards, it's crap. But, I still like it because of the shock value that it had then. The first game HEROINE (the hero is a chick), which isn't unusual now, but it was the first. Plus, it had one of the longest level design for the time, and the password saving, which can be used for cheats, plus an excellent musical score for the time. I don't like this game very much, simply because I never was able to get any farther than to the first missile tank without NARPAS SWORD0 000000 000000. Anyway, I didn't like it as much as the others.
Metroid II-Return of Samus: Yes, Samus made a comeback in 1991 on the gigantic Game Boy system. The thing was huge. M2 came out in Black & White. It could be supplemented with the Super Game Boy, which lets you play your GB games on the SNES and gives them a touch of color. Looks good, and is the first time she lands on SR-388 to eradicate the Metroids. I've played this game about 1/2 way through, but it's alright. Pretty good, and hard, quite often, however the crouch ability is nice, and I'd like to angle my shots. But, the addition of the Spazer beam is nice, so it goes through walls and has a wide trajectory. I've gotten as far as Space Jump, and I have 19 Metroids left. Gammas are big @$$holes! A far cry from Zetas and Omegas, but I have yet to see one.
Super Metroid: Not only the biggest game on the SNES (a whopping 30 Megs) but one of the best and most memorable. I also have not played this one yet, but I will once I get the game, and an SNES. It has come to my attention that this is the best game on any system, at least for Metroid buffs. The game starts out where Ridley steals the infant Metroid from the Ceres Space Station, which came from SR-388, and apparently the last in existence. It is up to Samus to chase him to Zebes, and track down the Space Pirates, and their completely evil commander Mother Brain. As Samus is an inch from death, the Infant Metroid, now grown to massive size, drains a good deal of Mother Brain's health, but dies, and gives her the Hyper Beam. As Samus kills Mother Brain, the Zebes destruction program goes online, and Samus has to escape the planet in 3 minutes.
Metroid Fusion: This one starts out as the last episode in the series so far, where Samus is sent to SR-388 to supervise a research expedition there. A new life-form is seen here--an X Parasite, which steals genetic code from the host creature, and kills it in the process, which duplicates the X also. The X can create life-forms just from the floating gelatinous goo. The genetic information is reincarnated into a new, meaner form of the original. The X reproduce asexually, which means that they aren't males and females. In any case, Samus is infected by the X, and some cell culture from the Infant Metroid cures her. Apparently, Metroids ate X on SR-388, and since their being the dominate predators on the planet threw the ecosystem out of sync, and the X multiplied. So, during surgery to remove the X from her Suit, (before they figured out the cell culture) it screwed up her physical appearence, meaning that only the Suit was different-contrary to what others think, because in the ending pictures, Samus isn't all cut up or anything. Just the suit. So, the parts removed are sent to a research lab, called Biologic Space Labs, more commonly called BSL. She gets a new ship, too, because during flight, she crashed it into an asteroid field when the X paralyzed her. Anyway, she gets there, and eventually, she faces successively harder-to-beat enemies until she gets all her suit upgrades and is ready to face herself, the SA-X, a heartless reincarnation of Samus from the suit parts, which formed and multiplied inside the container until it was full-size again. Then, detonated a Power Bomb to escape. The resulting explosion destroyed the other containers holding X. The X spread. Soon enough (my record is 1 hour, 23 minutes), she meets herself while in the process of sending the statiom into the surface of SR-388. The battle is intense, and she sees an Omega Metroid--a little scumbag (more a big scumbag, really) and gains the SA-X's Ice Beam when it dies trying to save itself. I played this one for a while, and it was way too short, easy, the physics were weird, and the suit was too strange. Good, though.
Metroid Prime: So far, the best game I've ever played. I mean that. The others had shortcomings, and this one had none--and surprisingly, Metroid Prime 2 Echoes is going to be 10 times better! The game starts out shortly after the original Metroid, where a few Pirates who survied the explosion went to a strange energy reading on Tallon IV, a Phazon meteor that crashed a few years ago. The mutagen that spread over the planet engulfed the life there, killing most, and strengthening the ones who survived into more dangerous forms. The pirates have started experimenting with Metroids for their own purposes as biological weapons, and their own pirates, while mining the Phazon. Local life was experimented on, like the rock creature Thardus. The Metroid Prime was found when mining, and they gave him all sorts of mechanical parts, a type of shell, and Samus has to stop him with the Phazon Beam. Anyway, at the end, it steals her Phazon suit, and after she leaves, the Phazon suit sticks up out of the place where Prime died...Seems like a good place where Prime 2 comes in. And, we see Dark Samus in the E3 build, and it is wearing a black suit with phazon shooting out of it. Anyway, I loved this game. I would would suggest it to ANYBODY!!! Girls, boys, men, women, old farts with arthritis, anyone. An excellent game coming soon with an excellent sequel.
Metroid: Zero Mission: Another great game. This is how I got to play Metroid. Anyway, it's a retelling of Metroid. Takes place on Zebes, Samus fights the same characters--you know, Ridley, Space Pirates, Kraid, Mother Brain. With a few new ones--Mecha Ridley, Imago, Charge Beam Worm, and that's it. She combines a bunch of old abilities from the previous games, and by comparison, Metroid sucks--no cool abilities, like Speed Booster, Space Jump, Plasma Beam, Charge Beam, Crouching, shooting downward, Power Grip, stuff like that. I liked it. Short, but addictive.
Metroid Prime 2 Echoes: Unknown. I don't know too much about this one, and i'm not going to spoil it until I finish it, sometime around Christmas, I'd assume what with school and all.
Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt: Comes with the DS on Nov. 21. A demo version of Hunters.
Metroid Prime Hunters: Don't know too much about this one either. It's going to be released on 5/8/04. I want this one too. It seems to be a 1-player full-mission game, like the previous ones. Plus, it has a good multiplayer version, too.
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