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Metroid Prime with Metroid Prime: Echos Bonus Disc

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This is a spectacular game , one of the finest Gamecube titles. if you are a old school metroid fan you will appreciate what the developers set out to do with game.It's been out for about 6 years now but it aged very nicely .I have a ps3 I have had it for over a year so after playing Metroid Prime on my 'cube recently I'm shocked its held up graphically.Gameplay is very unique and outstanding.It's not for everyone though because Metroid Prime features a very extensive map system and may throw people off, with that being said its a adventure game and a good one at that , Great mix of exploration and action here and there. Now as far as this version goes, Its the same old metroid prime it just has a bonus disc/demo of it's sequel .The front box art is slightly different but the side and back cover are the original art.This version is like $ 4 dollars cheaper with a bonus so just get this, Its amazing and a must have for any old school gamer .

I received the game almost 4 days before the estimation and the quality was perfect. The discs were in perfect condition as well as the case.

This package was listed as "very good" when it was actually like new. No scratches, perfect packaging, and a manual. My kids thought it was their original disk they lost eons ago. Nice!

This is a classic that any gamer should have or get. Most people look back at this game and say who in the right mind would ever wanna play this? There is no online or multiplayer and it looks boring. This is what the gaming universe is turning into, a bunch of kids who never want to play anything with a good story anymore. Just online multiplayer is what they have their mom spend 60 bucks on to play for a few months. Just saying that the adventure and great story games are dying, we need to avoid this. Anyway, for the review. This is perhaps the best in the series and hands down the best Prime. It was the first Prime that i got and may i say how great the graphics are for a 2001 game on the GC. Like many other Metroids it has that same creepy/beautiful/scifi/relaxing atmosphere. It changes from aged ruins, to frozen drifts and everywhere in between. You start off in space where you land on this station type thing and this is where you find out whats going on and where you beat your first boss. Mother Brain. Afterwards you land on Tallon IV, a soothing rainy/bogy type of place. This is basicly the central of everyplace. As you move on you will find new places by solving puzzles and it does take quite the thinker to figure out where to go or what to do next for this game is not very straight forward. You will rack up about 8-20 hours to beat this game depending on the gamer and to beat this game needs patience. You need to scan anything and everything you can to understand things. Like history from the chozo logs, creatures, suit upgrades, and so on. After you beat this game you have the choice of rebeating it on hard mode if it wasnt already hard enough before "Omega Boss" Or just make another slot to play new game. You can run around the world after beating it to try to get 100% items but no more bosses just creatures. The more scans you obtain, the more photos you will recieve in the photo gallary. If you want a better review just look at my regular metroid prime review not the bonus disc, if you want to learn more read on...
Well this game has a bonus disc. My first thought without paying much attention was MP2 came with it but when i took it home i saw what it meant. Still not dissapointed for i got MP2 a few years later, the bonus was just basicly a demo of the sequel and sure does keep you wanting more and waiting four years for it to come out. The version of the MP is exactly the same as any other so sorry no extras besides the bonus disc. However you may also hook up your GameBoy Advance to the GameCube if you have a beaten metroid fusion game inside and beaten Prime story. this will give you the chance to play the original Metroid game from the NES on your gamecube! Great, now you can enjoy another classic and even save with real save and not passwords. Controls are abit iffy at first but you will get them down. This is also on every Metroid Prime game. So much to do on such little disc. Get this game!

I bought this for my GC collection and I'm very pleased with it. It's without a doubt pretty rare to come by and for $7 it was a steal. Buy this game!!

Metroid Prime is definitely overrated. Let me list all the reasons why-

- The game totally rips off Mega Man Legends 2, a Playstation game released two years before this game came out on the Gamecube. The fire snakes that pop out of the lava, and the beetles that pop out of the ground, are two things in particular that are WAY too similar to aspects of MML2 for me to buy this is supposed to be some kind of coincidence.

- The music is severely disappointing. The main theme song where the spaceship is located in the beginning of the game is a remake of the classic theme from the original Metroid (released in 1986) but done much, much worse. Oh sure, it may have sounded beautiful and epic back in 2002 to signal the realistic approach to the 3D movement video games were taking at the time, but nowadays, this particular theme lacks inspiration, melody, and any distinctive qualities. In other words, despite the epic beauty of the music, it's just bland and pointless to me. I'll take the original 1986 version with its inspirational melody thank you very much.

- I mention this game feels like a ripoff of Mega Man Legends 2. It's also a ripoff of Quake II, the classic PC shooter. The environments and many of the dark areas feel *exactly* like Quake II, which makes me wonder why I'm playing Metroid Prime when I COULD be playing Quake II instead. Metroid Prime is nothing more than a corridor shooter.

- The enemies you encounter are quite uninspiring for the most part. You have these suicidal bats that dart down from the ceiling, but they're small, boring and lack inventiveness. You have vines that pop out of walls and pretend like they're snakes- these are just annoying to shoot. You have wasps that swarm from hives and dive at you- it is VERY irritating to take out a swarm of these. There was nothing like this in Super Metroid. Nothing was irritating about the enemies in that game. Enemies are not only annoying to take out completely, but unacceptable to look at because of the bland way they were designed.

- Boss battles are flat-out horrible. That gigantic plant you have to take out is underwhelming compared to the plant boss in Super Metroid (not to mention it takes WAY too much time to actually defeat, despite your best efforts to use the charge beam and morph ball). The very first fight in fact is the worst one of them all- repeatedly and needlessly shooting wasps over and *over* again... ugh. I'm not impressed at all here- boss battles are, for the most part, overlong and boring with no usage of creativity on the part of the developers.

- Metroid Prime overall suffers from the same problem that Resident Evil 4 suffers from- the movie-like cinematic feel of the entire game, used for no other reason than a cheap attempt to make the game look as much like a movie as possible. I don't see the appeal of these kind of games to be totally honest- going for that grand and pretentious movie theater effect in video games has been done so many times by this point that it's just not worth the time or energy to create them in this way anymore, not to mention graphics aren't nearly as important as many gamers would have you believe- graphics mean crap to me.

- The game is trying to go for a perfect 3D update to Super Metroid, but Metroid Prime is *nothing* like Super Metroid. How CAN it be??? Metroid Prime is just one of literally hundreds of generic 3D shooters out there where one man (or in this case, one woman) goes through a huge world, narrow corridors, and shooting and exploring... and before you say this game is all about exploration... let me respond by saying "Not really". The exploration aspect has been greatly exaggerated because you're honestly not exploring more in this game than you are in, say, Quake II and THAT game never gets credit for the exploratory features it implements, so neither should this one.

- The game is so easy that you can literally just rush through enemies while running down hallways and actually ALLOW enemies to take off small chunks of your energy. It doesn't matter because you'll have plenty of energy by the time you reach your destination anyway. The game isn't hard enough.

- Four words- WHY ALL THE SCANNING? This is perhaps the most annoying thing I've ever seen in all the years I've been playing video games. If this feature was implemented for storyline purposes only, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But there's actually a purpose to all that scanning you do throughout the game- it effects achievements at the end of the game. Who actually feels like scanning enemies and bosses every time you play this game? Not me, not ever. You don't have a choice though, that is, if you care about the achievements. Terrible game development.

- Platform jumps. The excessive amount of platform jumps featured in this game are completely unnecessary, not to mention a hassle half the time. I don't care if Nintendo fanboys defend the abundance of platforms in Metroid Prime by claiming this is not a platform game- that doesn't make the many platforms suddenly become nonexistent- they're *still* there and we *still* have to deal with them. At least make jumping from platform to platform more creative like Mario or Spyro games. That would help the game a LOT.

I just don't like this game very much. It's boring, overrated, and not very fun. This game gets a 2 out of 5, despite the fact amazon keeps saying I'm giving it a 5 out of 5. Trust me, I'm not.