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Description: The game looks at the classic franchise from a new perspective: While much of the game is reminiscent of 2-D side-scrollers, players can switch the perspective into 3-D at any time as they explore the twisting passages of a derelict space station and delve deep into a cinematic, never-before-told story of bounty hunter Samus Aran's past. This new approach uses a new control scheme in which players use the Wii Remote controller held sideways to battle enemies and navigate the expansive, gorgeous environments in classic Metroid fashion, then aim at the screen with the Wii Remote pointer to blast foes in first-person and hunt the world for clues and hidden passages. [Nintendo]

Overview

Platforms:
  • Wii
Initial Release Date: Aug 31, 2010
Developer:
  • Team Ninja
Publisher: Nintendo

Credits

Yosuke Hayashi
Directed By
Yoshio Sakamoto
Directed By
Ryuji Kitaura
Directed By: cinematic director
Yoshio Sakamoto
Written By: story
Jessica Erin Martin
Cast: Samus Aran
Dave Elvin
Cast: Commander Adam Malkovich
Mike McGillicuty
Cast: Anthony Higgs
Sarah Naid
Cast: Melissa Bergman
Linda K. Morris
Cast: Madeline Bergman
Linda K. Norris
Cast: Madeline Bergman
Aaron Thomas
Cast: James Pierce
Mark Carr
Cast: Lyle Smithsonian
Hanley Smith
Cast: Maurice Favreau
Jeff Minnerly
Cast: K.G. Misawa
Jamie Hunsdale
Cast: Ian Malkovich
Stephan Weyte
Cast: The Colonel
Nate Bihldorff
Cast: Head Quarantine Officer
Sam Gray
Cast: Quarantine Officer
Dave Howe
Cast: Operator 1
Tom McGurk
Cast: Operator 2
Erika Webright
Cast: Operator 3
Leslie Swan
Cast: Bottle Ship P.A. announcer
Ai Kobayashi
Cast: Samus Aran
Rikiya Koyama
Cast: Commander Adam Malkovich
Kenji Nomura
Cast: Anthony Higgs
Shizuka Itô
Cast: Melissa Bergman
Miho Hino
Cast: Madeline Bergman
Tsuguo Mogami
Cast: James Pierce
Kazuhisa Tanaka
Cast: Lyle Smithsonian
Manta Yamamoto
Cast: Maurice Favreau
Katsuhisa Hôki
Cast: The Colonel
Jessica Martin
Cast: Samus Aran
Toru Akutsu
Produced By: co-producer
Takuya Fujita
Produced By: cgi producer: N-Design
Masaru Habuta
Produced By: producer: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Hiromasa Inoue
Produced By: producer: SHIROGUMI INC.
Akiko Isobe
Produced By: producer: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Satoru Iwata
Produced By: executive producer
Shinnosuke Kaneko
Produced By: associate producer: Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd.
Tomo Kitamura
Produced By: assistant producer: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Keisuke Maruyama
Produced By: producer: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Takahiro Matsumoto
Produced By: producer: TERABYTE INC.
Yukimasa Morimura
Produced By: cgi producer: pH STUDIO LTD.
Yuki Morita
Produced By: assistant producer: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Hide Nagasawa
Produced By: producer: Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd.
Masayo Ohno
Produced By: line producer: SHIROGUMI INC.
Akira Oishi
Produced By: executive producer: Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd.
Yoshio Sakamoto
Produced By: producer
Hiroyuki Akiyama
Sound: sound designer
Shunpei Arai
Sound: sound designer
Sam Gray
Sound: sound recordist
Makoto Hosoi
Sound: sound designer
Kazumi Inamura
Sound: sound mixer
Takashi Kaneko
Sound: sound designer
Hirokazu Kawamoto
Sound: sound mixer: Alive Co., Ltd.
Ryo Koike
Sound: audio director
Kota Matsubara
Sound: sound designer
Toru Okitsu
Sound: recordist and mixer
Takumi Saitô
Sound: sound designer
Michihiro Sato
Sound: sound designer
Tsutomu Satomi
Sound: sound coordinator
Shunichi Shigematsu
Sound: sound designer
Yukimura Yazawa
Sound: sound effects: Alive Co., Ltd.
Takayasu Morisawa
Art Direction
Yutaka Saito
Art Direction
Tomohiro Akiyama
Visual Effects: effects artist: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Masato Aonuma
Visual Effects: cgi artist: Studio SOLARI Inc.
Jonathan Nolan C. Evangelista
Visual Effects: cgi art lead: TERABYTE INC.
Rintaro Fukuda
Visual Effects: effect animation lead: N-Design
Masako Gomadô
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Kibo Hayashi
Visual Effects: cgi director: pH STUDIO LTD.
Akira Hirabayashi
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Mikiya Hirate
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Tomonori Hirayama
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Yoshiaki Horiuchi
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Tomoyuki Iwasaki
Visual Effects: assistant cgi director: N-Design
Masahiko Kane
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Chiharu Katagiri
Visual Effects: real-time cinematic designer
Yoshihisa Kato
Visual Effects
Atsushi Kayama
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Kana Kitta
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Visual Effects: real-time cinematic designer
Nozomu Kondo
Visual Effects: compositor: N-Design
Makoto Kuboi
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Masahiro Kudo
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Yoshiyuki Kurita
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Tetsuo Maeda
Visual Effects: compositor: pH STUDIO LTD.
Yoshifumi Maezawa
Visual Effects: cgi director: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Tomoaki Mori
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Akihiro Nakamura
Visual Effects: compositing lead: N-Design
Masami Nikaido
Visual Effects: visual effects supervisor
Kazuhiro Nishimura
Visual Effects: real-time cinematic designer
Takamitsu Nyuta
Visual Effects: cgi artist: TERABYTE INC.
Toshio Ohashi
Visual Effects: cgi director: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Keiji Ohsumi
Visual Effects: cgi director: TERABYTE INC.
Kazuki Osada
Visual Effects: effects artist
Syusuke Osanai
Visual Effects: cgi art lead: N-Design
Kazuya Sakagami
Visual Effects: cgi director: N-Design
Masanori Sakate
Visual Effects: cgi director: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Mio Sato
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Kazuhiro Shigihara
Visual Effects: cgi artist: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Takeshi Shin
Visual Effects: cgi director: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Ryusuke Shiraishi
Visual Effects: real-time cinematic designer
Matthew Smith
Visual Effects: lighting and compositing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Toshihiko Terasawa
Visual Effects: digital compositor: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Yoshiteru Tomita
Visual Effects: real-time cinematics lead
Natsuyo Toyoshima
Visual Effects: cgi art lead: N-Design
Yuichi Ueno
Visual Effects: visual effects: pH STUDIO LTD.
Satoru Watanabe
Visual Effects: effects artist
Katsuji Yamaguchi
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Takatoshi Yamasaki
Visual Effects: cgi artist: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Takashi Yamazaki
Visual Effects: cgi artist: N-Design
Mark Andrei Ylagan
Visual Effects: cgi artist: TERABYTE INC.
Jiro Yoshida
Visual Effects: effects artist
Kazunori Yoshino
Visual Effects: cgi director: NTT MEDIA LAB LTD.
Munetaka Kurosaki
Assistant Director: director: DYNAMO PICTURES LTD.
Yasuhisa Niizato
Assistant Director: technical director: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Kazutaka Ootsuka
Assistant Director: assistant director
Hiroki Agawa
Production Management: production manager: TOY BOY CO., LTD.
Ryoko Ishii
Production Management: production manager: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Kazuki Itaya
Production Management: production manager
Yuya Kato
Production Management: production manager
Yoshihisa Shimizu
Production Management: production manager: XAX ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Daisuke Watanabe
Production Management: production manager
Tetsuya Amabiki
Art Department: concept artist
Kaori Ando
Art Department: digital artist: pH STUDIO LTD.
Takahiro Aoki
Art Department: environment artist
Ayumi Ebisawa
Art Department: matte painter: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Shunsuke Fujita
Art Department: environment artist
Nobuo Gouchi
Art Department: artist: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Takamitsu Hirakawa
Art Department: digital artist: RIVERS STUDIO INC.
Masahito Honda
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Kana Hori
Art Department: matte painter: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Yoshiki Horiuchi
Art Department: character artist
Mamoru Ishikawa
Art Department: digital artist: pH STUDIO LTD.
Yuko Ito
Art Department: character artist
Kazutaka Kato
Art Department: user interface artist
Tadashi Kawabe
Art Department: environment artist
Natsuko Kawakami
Art Department: character artist
Takashi Kawamura
Art Department: digital artist: pH STUDIO LTD.
Naruhisa Kawano
Art Department: artwork
Shoko Kitamura
Art Department: art director: SNOWMAN DIGITAL ART
Hiroji Kiyotake
Art Department: concept art,concept artist
Kazunori Kodama
Art Department: character artist
Makiko Kubo
Art Department: set modeler: SNOWMAN DIGITAL ART
Muneaki Kubota
Art Department: character artist
Miyuki Maruyama
Art Department: environment artist
Hirokazu Matsui
Art Department: artwork
Fumiko Miyamoto
Art Department: concept artist
Ken Mochizuki
Art Department: digital artist: XAX ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Miyuki Momose
Art Department: environment artist
Ryosei Muraki
Art Department: environment artist
Chie Nakaizumi
Art Department: artist: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Yuuki Nakajima
Art Department: environment artist
Kenichiro Nakajo
Art Department: environment art lead
Hideki Niimi
Art Department: environment art lead
Yoko Nishikimi
Art Department: designer: DYNAMO PICTURES LTD.
Kaori Obara
Art Department: digital artist: RIVERS STUDIO INC.
Junko Ohama
Art Department: environment artist
Masayuki Okada
Art Department: concept artist
Naoya Okamoto
Art Department: technical artist
Kazunari Okita
Art Department: digital artist: pH STUDIO LTD.
Hiroki Omote
Art Department: character artist
Chiharu Sakiyama
Art Department: artwork
Tomomi Sakuma
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Aki Sakurai
Art Department: artwork
Yuta Sano
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Yasuyuki Sato
Art Department: environment artist
Haruhiko Shikata
Art Department: character art lead
Etsuko Shimada
Art Department: environment artist
Tomoe Suzuki
Art Department: environment artist
Kensaku Tabuchi
Art Department: environment artist
Hideaki Takahashi
Art Department: character artist
Godai Takanishi
Art Department: designer: DYNAMO PICTURES LTD.
Saw Takeyama
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Kumie Tsuda
Art Department: digital artist: pH STUDIO LTD.
Tatsuya Uchida
Art Department: character artist
Nobuhiro Ushiyama
Art Department: artist: PREMIUM AGENCY LTD.
Shuichi Wada
Art Department: character artist
Takamitsu Watanabe
Art Department: effects art lead
Koichi Yabata
Art Department: environment artist
Shuhei Yamagata
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Satoshi Yamaguchi
Art Department: digital artist: XAX ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Kana Yamamoto
Art Department: character artist
Tomoyoshi Yasuno
Art Department: digital artist: SHIROGUMI INC.
Ryoji Abe
Animation: animation lead
Taiki Ebisawa
Animation: modeler: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Otokazu Eda
Animation: rigger: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Hiroyuki Fukumoto
Animation: animator: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Masayuki Fukushima
Animation: animator
Ikuo Harigai
Animation: animator
Cédric Herole
Animation: cgi animator: pH STUDIO LTD.
Yûji Kaneko
Animation: rigger: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Toshiaki Kondo
Animation: animator
Kazuki Kurata
Animation: animator: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Soh Choong Leong
Animation: rigger: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Noriko Murata
Animation: character modeling lead: N-Design
Mariko Nagano
Animation: modeler: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Yoshiki Nakao
Animation: modeler: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Keiji Nakatsuji
Animation: animation director: RIVERS STUDIO INC.
Eiji Ohkoshi
Animation: animator: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Miyoko Oka
Animation: modeler: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Kaori Onodera
Animation: animator: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Yuji Otake
Animation: animator: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Keisuke Saito
Animation: animator
Chitose Sasaki
Animation: animator
Katsura Sato
Animation: animator: SNOWMAN DIGITAL ART
Ryuichi Snow
Animation: animation director: SNOWMAN DIGITAL ART
Yoshiro Tachibana
Animation: animator
Akira Taguchi
Animation: modeler: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Hirohisa Togase
Animation: animator
Kosuke Wakamatsu
Animation: animation lead
Hideaki Watanabe
Animation: modeling supervisor: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Ataru Yamada
Animation: modeling lead: N-Design
Katsuhiro Yamauchi
Animation: animator
Motoyuki Kawase
Editorial: editing: N-Design
Jun Watanabe
Editorial: editing: POLYGON PICTURES ENT.
Manabu Fukuda
very special thanks
Shinji Hatano
special thanks
Takako Ito
special thanks
Yasuharu Kakihara
special thanks
Takumi Kawagoe
special thanks
Keiyu Kondo
special thanks
Naoki Mori
special thanks
Saeko Murakami
special thanks
Ryuichi Nakada
special thanks
Susumu Tanaka
special thanks
Koji Tazawa
special thanks
Yoshinori Ueda
special thanks
Yan Fung
Music Department: music translator
Yuesong Li
Music Department: music coordinator: Hear Heart Studio
Sachiko Miyano
Music Department: orchestra and arranger
Tsutomu Satomi
Music Department: sound coordinator
Yoshiko Uchida
Music Department: music preparation
Tadashi Yatabe
Music Department: music programming & manipulation
Hiroshi Egami
Camera Department: director of photography
Naoki Kasama
Camera Department: camera assistant
Tomoki Moteki
Camera Department: camera operator: NEWTELES Co., Ltd
Ryohei Oka
Camera Department: camera assistant
Tai Ouchi
Camera Department: camera assistant
Toshikatsu Yakou
Camera Department: camera operator: NEWTELES Co., Ltd
Ou Yotsuya
Camera Department: stage camera setting