2 Hour Review: Metriod Prime Corruption

Now I don't think that Metroid Prime Corruption for the Nintendo Wii is going revolutionize 1st person shooters.

The level of realism in waving your arm around to aim your gun and flicking back with the grappling hook to pull away debris is truly awesome. There's no question about that. But there is always going to be a market for games with keyboards and mice and console thumbsticks. The main separation between the two is accuracy. The handholding that is done in console and PC gaming makes accuracy top notch, giving you wilder action.

What Corruption is doing for video games is cementing the foothold of bringing the user into a 1-to-1 experience with a virtual character and a virtual world. It's better than Duck Hunt. It's better than Virtua Cop. Your in the world. Your physically reacting to it's elements.

As a game though, Corruption is a carbon copy of Metroid Prime 1 and 2. Games that brought the franchise over into the 3-d world in a huge way. A good thing, yes. Gamers like some stability throughout iterations of a series. A solid, top performing game is something that we just really don't like messed with too much. But the elements that the Wii we're able to add to the game were perfect, fine tuned, and implemented with style and intelligence.

And I really enjoy and appreciate some of the new additions to the series. Voice acting has made it's debut as well as other bounty hunters that were carried over from the DS game Metroid Prime Hunters. The Metroid universe just got so much deeper with those two things, where before the game was silent and solitary.

Voices don't just bring audio to a game, but they help define the character of it. In Corruption, the voices aren't fully developed, movie quality acting. In a science fiction game, I don't mind that. You feel more like your in the future where maybe we've changed the way we talk. Where as Halo, the superior voice acting made you feel like you might actually know the people, which isn't possible in the future. Because it's the future!

I'm going to enjoy the next month I have with this game. I want to see how the story develops and how the addition of the new bounty hunters add to the gameplay. This is the kind of game that is just begging for a paperback novel or three. But I'll live with just playing the game for now.