Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
I received a Wii for my birthday. I was hyped up to play my favorite game on it: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Once I beat it I noticed the problems of the Wii. One big problem with the Wii was the games. As you may know, the Wii is the best-selling video game system out of itself, the PS3, and the 360. This is largely due to its casual audience. The causal audience is fond of games like Wii Sports, Cooking Mama, etc. Video games, in my opinion, are supposed to be for the hardcore audience - the people who like Brawl, Killzone 2, Halo 3, etc. Nintendo realized that it could earn LOTS of money by producing casual games and attracting the other people that normally don't play video games. Thus, the Wii has sold a lot of casual games.
The problem with all of this is that I'm a hardcore fan. Stuck with the Wii, I couldn't find any good hardcore games. As a hardcore fan, I looked for some hardcore games. I have been with Nintendo for a long time by owning a Game Boy Advance, a Gamecube, a DS, and now a Wii, and through that experience I learned that Nintendo games are almost always excellent (most get about 9.5 or higher out of 10 in reviews.) Thus I picked all the hardcore series on the Wii, which was two: The Legend of Zelda and Metroid. Both were fun to play. However, I played Zelda lots of times before, so I got the feel of it. I never played Metroid before, which made me interested in Metroid. Also, the fact that it's a shooter made me interested. By the time I decided on Metroid, I was comparing 360/PS3 games to the few Wii hardcore games. Metroid got me excited, because I could compare it to a shooter that is probably the best shooting video game of all time: Halo 3. Both Halo and Metroid both had amazing graphics (Halo 3's graphics was better because of the 360. However, Metroid's graphics was hailed as the best on the Wii). They were both sci fi shooters too, with aliens. Thus, I decided to buy Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
I liked how the Wii remote's pointer capacities were used in Metroid Prime 3. In the beginning, I enjoyed the gameplay and the graphics. Afterwards I started noticing the problems.
You can't save whenever you want. You must be at Samus's ship or at a save station to save. They are at least 40 minutes of gameplay away from each other, and since I had a fixed time period of one hour to play in, I often got frustrated. Another thing is the doors. It was often mentioned that the blue doors took a long time to open. They often take 1-10 seconds to load. However, I don't mind them that much. The times I despised the doors was when an enemy was shooting me as I desperately waited for the doors to open so I could escape. Also, the game is hard, especially for me, who is a beginner to Metroid. For example, in a boss battle, I was supposed to, in morph ball form, plant bombs on a boss's stomach. However, before I knew that, it was frustrating, since the game gave no hints whatsoever to planting the bombs.
But there are many more good parts. Weapons are diverse. Puzzles are diverse. You will get an amazing first person shooter on the Wii. The adventure is cool as you travel across landscapes. And it takes a long time to beat, thankfully (I hate short games). If you're a hardcore fan, get this. If you're a fan of the series, get this. Even if you're not, it's a good game - it’s filled with awesome gameplay and graphics. But be prepared to constantly look at a walkthrough as you play through this game.Read full review
