• Publisher: Nintendo
  • Release Date: Aug 24, 2009
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Universal acclaim- based on 175 Ratings

  • Summary: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption set a new standard for first-person motion controls in video games. Now it’s bringing those controls to the rest of the celebrated series, allowing players to experience the entire Metroid Prime story arc with the precision of the Wii Remote. Metroid Prime Trilogygy, is a three-game collection for the Wii console that bundles all three landmark Metroid Prime games onto one disc and revamps the first two installments with intuitive Wii Remote controls, wide-screen presentation and other enhancements. Each game maintains its original storyline and settings, but now Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes let players use their Wii Remote to aim with precision as heroine Samus Aran. Based on the breakthrough control system that debuted in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, these new Wii controls bring an entirely new level of immersion and freedom to these milestone games. Players can access the game they want from a unified main menu that ties together all three adventures. Through a new unlockables system, players can gain access to in-game rewards such as music and artwork by accomplishing objectives across all three games. [Nintendo] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 48
  3. Negative: 0 out of 48
  1. 100
    With three brilliant games that challenge and exhilarate the player, the Metroid Prime Trilogy package is a masterpiece filled with with pristine graphics, an in-depth storyline, and non-stop exploration and action .
  2. 100
    An absolutely stunning collection of games that no self-respecting gamer should be without; Metroid Prime Trilogy is a landmark achievement in gaming that deserves to be played and enjoyed on the Wii in its ultimate form.
  3. If you’ve passed on the Prime series until now, your excuses for doing so have dwindled considerably.
  4. As far as adventure shooters on the console go, this has it all, but stack it up against similar games on other consoles and you cannot help feeling it's a runner-up rather than a leader. A good game though, and one that we recommend.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 58
  2. Negative: 2 out of 58
  1. JohnW
    10
    One of the best game compilations ever and definetely som e of the best games ever. Hopefully this, the conduit, SMG2, Metroid:Other M and the next LoZ convince everyone that the wii isn't just for 5 year olds and old people in need of hand-eye co-ordination. Simply great graphics, incredible gameplay and unbelievable sound. Greatest gaming set since Mario All-Stars and the Orange box. Expand
  2. The motion controls are the selling point of this title, but it's the triple-A titles that these games have garnered in the past that makes them sell. You can easily spend 30 hours on each game for the storyline and an extra 10 each for 100% completion. On top of that is a collector's item: sketches of in-game enemies and characters in their early states (and they actually look very good). The only thing unfortunate is that they're left in their entirety, so people who have already finished each game (like me) once don't get anything new, except for a graphic update in Prime 1 (e.g., Thardus battle was graphically changed slightly) and some playthrough balancing in Prime 2 (e.g., Spider Ball Guardian was an extremely hard boss at its early point in the game; he's thankfully easier now) for some good measure (no online multiplayer for Prime 2, but that was a dead end either way, TRUST ME). The only thing you can't deny is that every one of these games were near-perfect when released, and you really can't miss the series this time around. Even better, it's the price of one game, and you got roughly 120+ hours to play it. Expand
  3. Simonw
    6
    3 Great games in one box for a great price, but unlike valve's orange box there is nothing new here to make me want to purchase it, yes my gamecube is long gone but sadly i have no incentive to replay these games. Also there Expand
  4. These games are just extremely bland. Everyone hails them as though they are so great but they are just extremely slow paced and boring. The environments are completely lifeless. The controls are terrible, even on the Wii versions. The combat and the enemy AI is just completely idiotic and so, so incredibly easy. No real challenge of any sort. The exploration is so superficial, so shallow. Actually, there is no real exploring. It's completely obvious what you have to do from one moment to the next. Seeing a door across the room, and seeing some platforms and maybe something to grapple to lead you there is not what exploration is. Exploration means that you go and find something yourself. It means solving puzzles. It means actually looking around, trying to figure out what to do. It doesn't mean instantly seeing exactly how the developers intended you to do something, then carrying it out. That is not fun. That is boring literally by definition. These games are just awful, and sadly, this is the future of Metroid. Never will we see a classic 2D Metroid ever again because people pretended that these games were the absolute definition of Metroid games. Go ahead and think lowly the classics because of this post - especially Super Metroid and Fusion. Prove your ignorance. Expand

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