Metroid Prime: Hunters

While many are out there playing Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360 a select few remain loyal to the Nintendo DS. Why, because of Metroid Prime Hunters.
Metroid Prime Hunters is a first person shooter for the Nintendo DS that utilizes that touch screen a great deal. This game has the same first person perspective as the other Metroid Prime Games (not Metroid Prime Pinball). As in every other Metroid game you take role as Samus Aran the Galactic Federation's best bounty hunter. The GF receives an odd message saying that the Secret to Ultimate Power lies in the Alimbic Cluster.
The series takes an odd twist adding numerous bounty hunters to the adventure also searching for this ultimate power. Your goal is to secure the power before any of the other vicious bounty hunters can do so.
The Adventure mode in this game is quite, lacking. You have to run around four different planets looking for artifacts. After you collect three artifacts, you then unlock a portal...

I hate hype. I really do. It makes any game look like the second coming of Jesus, but in the real world, the game is either crap or average. There are some exceptions, like Kingdom Hearts and Infamous, but generally speaking, hyped games are never really all that they're cracked up to be, especially when the hyped product is a pile of jizz. Meet Metroid Prime: Hunters, yet another victim of undeserved love. Just because there's access to online amongst some good graphics and music scores, does not mean that it's a good game. I'll go as far as saying that Metroid Prime: Hunters is a bad game. It just didn't click with me, and with the problems I've found, I can't quite figure out why, beyond hype, people actually like this game.

Apparently, there's some artifacts on some unknown faraway planets, and Samus has to retrieve them. Unfortunately for her, there are other hunters who are also going for it. And that's the general gist of the plot. There are some backstories here...

THE GOOD:
-First Person Shooter
-One of the best WiFi games
-Many types of controls you can use
-Rival Radar

THE BAD:
-Storyline Very Repetitive
-Average Music
-Rivals Cannot Speak

SUMMARY:
Storyline (2/5)- Very repetitive storyline going around collecting crystals, but don't let this give you a bad impression of the game.

Graphics (5/5)- My favorite part about this game is the amazing graphics. First of all you are first person, which makes the game 10x more suspenseful in certain situations. The opponents are very detailed, and the courses are made very well.

Controls (4/5)- The controls are pretty hard when you first get the game, but after you play for about 3 hours, you shall get the hang of it. You use the stylist to change the view of your character, and you use the control pad to move your character. These controls give you a good grip to get very good accuracy.

Music...

THE GOOD:
+ Nice 3D graphics
+ Fun Multiplayer
+ and single player
+ Online Play
+ Cool weapons
+ Well designed levels

THE BAD:
- Quite a bad lag in Wi-Fi mode
- Repeated bosses

SUMMARY:
Samus' DS debut is truly a successful one. This is one hell of a good Metroid game, and thanks to the DS' 3D capabilities it is now a brillsiiant first perosn shooter Metroid....HANDHELD! I am a huge fan of Metroid and when I got this, I couldn't put my DS down. It was so much fun, and the multiplayer kicks ass big time. MPH is one of the best handheld Metroid titles.

As always, we focus on the good points first. The grpahics. Lovely 3D scenery and great texture on surfaces, like rock. Metroid FPS' have always been good in graphics, and this game is more proof. Truly fantastic 3D visuals in every well designed stage. Amazing. Yes it is. Now, Multiplayer. Metroid Prime had no multiplayer, but MP2 did. However,...

THE GOOD:
There are many good things about this game, the graphics being one main importance, the online is another. There are also many game modes, which I’ll go into more depth with, later in the review.

THE BAD:
There are some bad things too, which come with a really competitive online game such as this. One thing is the game hackers. Everytime you go online, you basically get a hacker, which pretty much ruins any fun there might have been. Also, the game has glitches, which people also exploit online. Even though the game’s greatest point online, it’s probably it’s worst point too, I’ll elaborate on that later.

SUMMARY:
This game is a pretty good game overall, one of the best on the DS, but I don’t like it as much as most people do. The game feels as if it were a little rushed to me, coming out with a lot of glitches, and I don’t know why they’d rush, they had plenty of time. The graphics...

When it comes to the long term main Nintendo licenses, Metroid has always stood out a little from the others. While the likes of Mario and Link have mostly come across as pure fantasy, and often colourful and bright, Metroid was the gritty realistic one (well, as realistic as sci-fi could be). There's no faraway kingdom of mushroom people, no young kids setting out into the world to defeat evil organisations and magic is not the answer to basically everything. Although I entered the series fairly late (Gamecube/Gameboy Advance era) I quickly came to love the series and what it delivered. Therefore when Hunters was released onto the DS I was eager to play it. After all, if could come even close to the Gamecube Metroid Prime titles then it was sure to be a big hit. Alas, Hunters is nothing like its home console brethren.

In terms of how the game looks I'm somewhat mixed on the issue. Granted there's nothing wrong in technical terms but rather it's how those visuals...

THE GOOD:
- The music is awesome
-The videos, while somewhat short, are very detailed (I still see the Seal Sphere killing the other hunters in my dreams)
- The multiplayer aspect is a great take on the FPS
- The online capabilities are free at most hotspots
- The weapons DO get better until you get a weapon that can kill in one headshot

THE BAD:
- the enviornments are somewhat bland
- Wifi sometimes suffers severe slowdown
- some idiots spewed out all the glitches so wifi is uselsess for the inocent people who dont survive on hiding inside a wall
- Every room is seperated from others with a small loading room, and the doors take like 3 seconds to open (a killer in timed parts)
- There are 2 bosses througout the games, Slench and Cretaphid. You fight them 4 times apiece (!)

SUMMARY:
Earlier reviewers must have Multiple Sklerosis. I found the controls surprisingly simple. Also, the inclusion of...