Metroid Prime: Hunters

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...

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...

THE GOOD:
- Online
- Lots of multiplayer modes to choose from.
- 6 brand new hunters.

THE BAD:
- Single player is pretty repetitive.

SUMMARY:
It's been awhile since the first demo of Metroid Prime: Hunters was released with the Nintendo DS in late November of 2004. After a couple of delays, it is finally released and is probably one of the greatest multiplayer DS game of all time.

Story: 5/5

"The secret to ultimate power lies in the Alimbic Cluster." This message came from the Alimbic Cluster located in the Tetra Galaxy. This was home to the Alimbics who were a powerful and peaceful race. They disappeared, only leaving their artifacts. The message was also translated into a thousand different languages and was heard on a thousand distant worlds. The Galatic Federation also heard the message and decided to send Samus in to seek this "ultimate power." Here's the catch. She is not the only hunter...

THE GOOD:
- Graphics and sound get 5/5
- Controls are simple and straightforward, this game has a very flat learning curve for starting to play but a relatively steep learning curve for competing online.
- Wi-Fi playability, as well as VoIP with friends.
- Okay story line.
- Single player practice vs bots, as well as playing adventure mode.
- Single card multiplayer support, always a welcome feature.

THE BAD:
- Adventure mode can get repetitive at some points, having to revisit planets to get all weapons.
- Can take a while to get proficient with the controls, particularly aiming with the touchpad.
- Adventure mode can only be played with Samus

SUMMARY:
Let me start off by pointing out I have not played any other of the Metroid games. Also, MPH was the first game I bought for the DS lite.

Keeping this second point in mind, I was particularly ecstatic about the controls and graphics.
The touch...

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:
- 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...

THE GOOD:
-Amazing Graphics
-Amazing Sound
-Massive Single Player Mode
-7 Bounty Hunters To Unlock
-Addictive Wi-Fi Deathmatches
-Full Touch Screen Compatibility

THE BAD:
-A lot of going backwards on forwards in story mode
-Hackers make online play frustrating
-Some levels have annoying glitches in them.

SUMMARY:
With compelling games before Metroid Prime Hunters, it has big boots to fill, but trust me, Metroid Prime Hunters does the Metroid series a lot of justice.

The first thing you will notice before you even get to the main menu, is the stunning graphics. In the opening cut-scenes we are introduced to all of the bounty hunters in the game, each presented in crisp 3D graphics, and if you thought this was the start, you were so wrong!

In the story mode you play as the main bounty hunter, Samus Aran, who is sent to the Alimbic Cluster, when the Galactic Federation pick up a message...

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...

THE GOOD:
7 different bounty hunters
a somewhat lengthy and challenging story mode
6 different affinity weapons
a choice of about 28 levels
Nintendo Wi-Fi compatible

THE BAD:
hackers on Wi-Fi connection
glitches in levels
the chance of fighting a foe of your skill level is low

SUMMARY:
Samus Aran is back in action once again! After receiving a telepathic message, she travels to the Tetra Galaxy in hopes of finding the weapon of ultimate power. She happens to meet multiple other bounty hunters along the way, including Kanden the Enoema, Spire the Diamont, Trace the Kriken, Weavel the Space-Pirate, Noxus the Vhozon, and a mysterious bounty hunter who hates Samus a great amount named Sylux.

There are various bosses along the way, and the other...