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Metroid Prime: Hunters
Nintendo
Release Date:
Metascore
85
Based on
55 Critics
User Score
8.1
Based on
166 Ratings
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Who is the Galaxy's Most Elite Bounty Hunter? Before Metroid Prime Hunters, the answer was easy. Now that six other ferocious bounty hunters have gathered to challenge Samus, the title is up for grabs. Engage in intense four-player deathmatches either locally or against players from around the world with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Battle with seven elite bounty hunters, each with unique alternate forms and specialty weapons. Customize your multiplayer matches with over 20 expertlyWho is the Galaxy's Most Elite Bounty Hunter? Before Metroid Prime Hunters, the answer was easy. Now that six other ferocious bounty hunters have gathered to challenge Samus, the title is up for grabs. Engage in intense four-player deathmatches either locally or against players from around the world with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Battle with seven elite bounty hunters, each with unique alternate forms and specialty weapons. Customize your multiplayer matches with over 20 expertly designed arenas and seven intense modes of play. Unlock multiplayer features by completing an all-new single-player mission in Adventure Mode. [Nintendo]… Expand
Starring: Chris Miller, Chris Donovan, Wing S. Cho
Developer: Nintendo
Genre(s): Sci-Fi
# of players: 4 Online
Cheats: On GameFAQs
Rating: T
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Critic Reviews Back to top
Positive:
51
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
100
Detroit Free Press
The game moves fluidly, with very little slowdown. The environments tend to repeat (even on the first planet I'd occasionally get lost because several corridors all looked the same), but the detail is surprisingly nice for a DS title.
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94
Nintendojo
This title offers something that literally can't be found anywhere else; and fortunately, because of theextended development time, managed to improve upon Nintendo's Wi-Fi service as well.
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90
Electric Playground
What the franchise loses in the transition from console to handheld, it makes up with intuitive control and the best multiplayer the DS has to offer. You'll be playing this one for a long time.
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85
Game Informer
While the single-player adventure falls just shy of the grandeur of some Metroid games, the new multiplayer game positively electrifies the experience. [May 2006, p.111]
83
Digital Entertainment News
Don't buy this game expecting an experience like the GameCube Metroid Prime titles. This is Quake with a thin layer of Metroid paint. But hey, that's okay if you like Quake.
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80
Boomtown
The potential of the technologically disruptive DS is just beginning to be exploited. Metroid Prime: Hunters is a great game, and one that really should shift systems. Buy it, play it, and you’ll understand.
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60
G4 TV
This feels like yet another genre shoehorned poorly onto hardware that just isn’t equipped to handle it.
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User Reviews Back to top
Positive:
52
Mixed:
6
Negative:
6
10
JasonL.
Mar 2, 2007
This is great! It's long and fun. Enjoyed it for about 60 hours! I give a 10.
10
AJay
Sep 2, 2007
Great graphics, fantastic controls, solid single player, and one of the best miltiplayer games ever leave nothing to be desiered!
9
Gamefreak
Oct 4, 2006
Its real good a great ending and the best first person shooter I've seen in years but its probably cause I just looooove Metroid.
8
AntonN.
Jan 3, 2007
The single player game is poor but the multi player game is extremely good. The control are really great and you can choose between dual hand The single player game is poor but the multi player game is extremely good. The control are really great and you can choose between dual hand or stylus mode, left handed or right handed. Although the game is a lot glitchy, it's really good with two possible ending in single player mode. I give it 8/10 because of the multi player mode and the easy to use controls.… Expand
8
warriorjan
Nov 10, 2011
As a metroid fan I always loved the prime series, so lets start with the review.

Story: The singeplayer was not what I usually would expectAs a metroid fan I always loved the prime series, so lets start with the review.

Story: The singeplayer was not what I usually would expect from a metroid serie, the mission were mostly the same (at least when fighting a boss) which could bother some people. Multiplayer: Very entertaining, you have as a player a lot of options to choose and it feel quite ballanced, sad enough no one plays it anymore and its overpopulated with hackers.

Soundtracks: Fits the game really well, like I usually expect from them.

Conclusion: If you want to play this game just for the story, then the objectives that you have to do may bother you since it mostly the same. If you play this game for the multiplayer, the I suggest you play it with a friend and not online due to all the hackers.
If you play this because you are a fan of Metroid, then it will be a fun experience.

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7
AnonymousMC
Sep 20, 2008
Good game. The graphics and are amazing. Single player isn't that exciting though. Multiplayer can be fun but there's too manyGood game. The graphics and are amazing. Single player isn't that exciting though. Multiplayer can be fun but there's too many hackers and it's cheap in the sense that there's health things scattered around the maps and everyone just runs away and gets full health again so it feels like a drag. They shouldn't have included health as this would have made it more like deathmatch. Also everyone just uses their secondary morph mode which gets real boring and annoying.… Expand
0
AnonymousMC
Jun 27, 2006
Granted it doesn't deserve a straight out 0, but I want to bring down the score, it does in no way deserve that.
It's boring, getGranted it doesn't deserve a straight out 0, but I want to bring down the score, it does in no way deserve that.
It's boring, get to the end of the level shooting enemies, picking up keys and power ups, then running back to the begining of the level in a certain time.
Wow
Fun...
Do not buy… Expand
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