Metroid Prime 3 : Corruption - Perfect Scores (10/10)

According the latest word on the net, the first official review of the upcoming Wii exclusive game, Metroid Prime 3 : Corruption, is in from Nintendo Power. They give the game a perfect score of 10/10.

Reasons :
- First Wii game that you couldn't confuse graphically with last-gen
- Great artwork
- Incredible feeling of immersion
- Flawless level design; tons of freedom to explore but you always have the feeling that you're at the right place at the right time. Sounds like the game does a remarkable job of nudging you as to what to do without giving it away.
- Best platforming design in a first person shooter
- Gestures for pulling levers, etc markedly improved from earlier demos

[resistance100]

Lack of online killed this game for me.

[Ri0tSquad]

wtf

[paul_war]

Or any multi-player at all!

[zslash]

Are you serious? Lack of online killed the game for you? When has Metroid ever been an online type game?

Metroid is about story, and exploration elements. I'm guessing you never even played a Metroid game...

[Marceles]

Why does every game have to have *in monster truck announcer voice* "64-player online deathmatch mayhem?!"

I'll be picking this one up.

[jadura450]

Sorry, I'm a bit dizzy from reading the 2nd most positive review I have ever read (next to Ocarina of Time) on IGN about BioShock... I think that singleplayer gaming is an experience that has not been and cannot be replaced by multiplayer. If multiplayer was left out to create a more robust and enjoyable experience in singleplayer, then so be it.

[iceice123]

Nintendo rating it's own game highly? Who would have thought.

[bym051d]

Nintendo Power is routinely objective and critical of big Nintendo games...

Wait, even I can't say this with a striaght face. Nintendo Power probably creamed themselves over Donkey Kong Jr. Math or Gyromite.

I think Corruption will be a great game. I just don't trust NP's reviews for this type of thing.

[vickers500]

No game deserves a perfect 10. Especially not the 3rd game in a trilogy that still has no online play.

[TheMART]

Disagree

First off, in its own time period a game can get a 10 out of 10.

Why? Because games keep getting better over time in graphics etc. That's why a 10 now can be a perfect NOW. A 10 in about 2 years time is a different story. Its not like a game with a 9 now is the same as a game with a 9 that got it 5 years ago.

Thus: yeah a game should be able to receive a 10 out of 10. Why otherwise would that mark be there?

Second: trilogy or not. A great game is a great game. First in line, or third. Doesn't matter. If it's good, it's good.

Last: no online/multiplayer. Also: nowadays online/multiplayer has almost become 'standard', but if a game is really, really good in singleplayer, it still should have the change on 10 out of 10.

Bioshock has a single player I've not experienced many times in my gaming life (at least from the demo up till now). No multiplayer though. But I don't care. The 10's it gets are in place.

If Metroid Prime 3 is such a game, it deserves a 10. I am glad for the Wii, because there wasn't much up till now.

[Mr VideoGames]

couldn't of said it better myself.

[Rockstar]

Not all games need online mutiplayer to be good.
In fact, some of (read: most of) the best games ever produced have no online multiplayer and they're better for it.

[Shadow Flare]

its not even worth it anymore

"If Metroid Prime 3 is such a great game, it deserves a 10. I am glad for the Wii, because there wasn't much up till now."

You couldn't say the same for Warhawk when it got a 9.6 could you? Cos ps3 hasnt had much till now. Hypocrite

With metroid you're like 'if the single player is good enough, it deserves a 10 without online'

Yet in the warhawk review you said 'How can a game without single player get a 9.6'

Well maybe the multiplayers good enough!

[bym051d]

Mario 64 and Zelda: TooT are both games worthy of 10s. Neither one is a multiplayer game.

[bootsielon]

I didn't expect more from you. Why don't you use the same eyes you use with Sony on Nintendo? You said "playstation magazine reviews on playstation games don't count". The same doesn't apply to Nintendo?

[jadura450]

I think I'm actually going to give theMart a bubble.

Because he's stopped being a Nintendo hater and started being a gamer.

[vickers500]

A perfect 10 means nothing in the game can be improved on at all, everything is perfect and it is impossible to make the game any better. Sure, in their own times, mario64 and zelda may have deserved 10's, but for a brand new game in the next generation, that has once had multiplayer (on a handheld nonetheless), then having the next game without any multiplayer is just bs.

The game might be good enough to not care about any multiplayer at all, and it might not, but they shouldnt subtract features they once had in a game before that and expect a higher score, much less a 10, which I dont believe any game deserves.

[BlackIceJoe]

Re: resistance100 that does suck but the game still will be great none the less.

That being said I am happy to see it get a good score and can't wait to play Metroid Prime 3. I just now need to find a Wii at the store to play this game and other ones too.

[Demon1980]

lol 10/10 my a$$.

[GoLeafsGo]

Late August 2007: The killer apps start here.

[MACHone]

Nintendo Power's not quite as biased as everyone thinks. I believe they gave Mario Strikers Charged around a 7.5, which is on par with what GameSpot gave it, if I remember correctly. So at least that goes to say that even a game with Mario's name slapped on it doesn't automatically get better treatment. And as far as the "no game deserves a 10/10" comment goes, I disagree. What I believe is that no game is "PERFECT," but a 10/10 means that the game was "all it could be," in a sense. Corruption definitely looks like it's shaping up to be an awesome game, even though I was thoroughly disappointed with the announcement that there'd be no multiplayer. I'll be picking this one up on day one.

[machine]

to me, a rating of 10/10 basically means a game experience that should not be missed.

[FreedomReign]

Even if the game sucked the Wii will still sell out, and so will this game. This is just fodder for the hardcore.

10/10 is great, regardless of the source, the game will be excellent.

[Silvia007]

The last game that comes to my mind is Metroid Prime. I loved the metroid series, until it went 3D. WTF were they thinking. Retards.

[Bloodmask]

I realy liked the first two Metroid Primes. It is one of the few 2D games that made the transition to 3D well and is just as fun.

[brodels]

i'm a huge nintendo fanboy... but if this game gets a 10/10, halo 3 should probably get a 12/10, because the single player probably won't be as good as metroid prime 3's, but halo 3's multiplayer experience will add so much to the game's depth, whereas mp3 has no online multiplayer.

question: metroid prime 2 has local multiplayer -- are they going to have that in prime 3?

[jadura450]

They're fundamentally different experiences. Look at Metroid Prime 2 v. Halo 2- Halo had like an 8 hour campaign, Metroid Prime 2 had like a 30 hr campaign (I think). MP is almost about puzzle solving first and shooting second, you can't say the same for Halo.

Metroid Prime is very single-player centric, whereas Halo is a balance of single and multiplayer elements. There's no way you can justify the statement that Halo is like Metroid's singleplayer with a multiplayer element added; it's not true.

[Greysturm]

Great games coming all around alot of 9s and 10s. If bioshock got perfect reviews i dont see why this game shouldnt since they are both singleplayer only (which is the way most games were a few generations ago so i dont see the fuss). The problem comes when rating multiplayer only games like warhawk which this generation are setting presedent.

[zerolinkgannon]

Way to go Metroid! Day one purchase for me. And to all the Wii haters...umm..why are you posting your negative wii hate here? I mean seriously. Give some credit where credit is due.

[cooke15]

Better than doupe.cz giving 9/10 for heavanly sword.. oh wait whats doupe.cz? still gets almsot 1000degrees here lol.

[Descendant]

I bought part 1 and 2 and didn't like either, there is way to much backtracking for me. Good news for Nintendo if it keeps up with these great reviews.

[ChickeyCantor]

for you? dude backtracking is one of the biggest elements in the metroid series!

" Lack of online killed this game for me. "
whut?
metroid never was about multiplayer.

[Figboy]

now, i don't doubt that Metroid Prime 3 is going to rock (i *LOVED the first Prime game; didn't get to play the second), but Nintendo Power is, in my opinion, *NOTORIOUS for scoring Nintendo games with insanely high scores.

i think i'll just wait for a few more sources before i have an opinion on this (and maybe some hands on time, if my friend brings over his Wii when MP3 comes out).

[anthonsh]

I think people have a point with the backtracking. I know Metroid is all about the backtracking, but I've never enjoyed it. (I've never played a Prime game other than Hunters).

If you're going back to a planet to look for something, that can be okay, but in hunters the whole game was just "Go look for stuff" and that was it. Metroid deserves a better story than that. If they improved the story for number 3, the backtracking will feel like it is less random.

But I digress.

Edit: Also, I think you should take Nintendo Powers review seriously, in that it ~IS~ a good game, but dont be surprised if the range on reviews is 8 - 10. Obviously, unless they missed something, you're not going to see a 5.

[machine]

i can understand why people get annoyed with backtracking in these games. its like, i have already been here, why would i want to spend 30 minutes crossing all the way back here once i get the power bomb just to get five more missiles? well, the thing is, there are also people like me who dont mind crap like that because the level design in most of these games is quite intriguing.

[MK_Red]

Awesome news. Great to finally see a true next-gen game on Wii. Love Metroid. w00t w00t. Scoring higher than Zelda TP? That's right this is the true Metroid game. 10/10

[machine]

friggn sweet. i cant wait to play this game. and who the fu*k cares if there is no online multi player? I've played through all of the other metroid games with the exception of the DS ones, and never once have i thought, "oh gee, ho hum, oh gosh! this would sure be better if i could do this with someone else because me don't get games that me play by my self. it gets so scarry!"
seriously, to everybody who clicked on this review just to yap about how you cant play online death matches, rather than see why this game got a 10/10, wtf. go away. I'm positive that this will not be the first great review for this game. Hell! when those other reviews come out i bet I will see you here blabin on about the same old crap!

[felidae]

fucc online. i just care for multiplayer. seems like i have to get a Wii

[jadura450]

lol, about time a game came out that made people start to think that...

[UltramanJ]

Nintendo Power is the last source I'd go to for an honest review of a Nintendo first party game. Newsflash: Mariokart Wii, Smash Brothers Wii, and Mario Galaxy Wii will also get 10s.

[machine]

perhaps they will all warrant 10's. those are all pretty big games.

[djt23]

Awesome and i am going to buy this game i hope it sell millions

[madmaltese]

nintendo power. nuff said

[s8anicslayer]

good news for ninti

[ShiftyLookingCow]

From the games radar videos, you could say it is a pretty good game. Yeah its the first Wii title that doesnt look too last gen. Maybe for many casual players Metroid Prime will be their first taste of hardcore gaming. That is a good thing

[Loudninja]

:D

[Odiah]

I feel like buying this game simply because there is nothing else to buy on wii at the moment.

[ShadoWulf]

If NP was biased they would've given it an 11, because from what I've seen this game is at least a 9.5 without question, and I haven't even played it. Singleplayer FTW.

[djt23]

you have to remenber that Nintendo Power dont give 10/10 or good rate any nintendo games. so i know this game going to good rating

[ChickeyCantor]

" why would i want to spend 30 minutes crossing all the way back here once i get the power bomb just to get five more missiles?"

you don't go back to find more missiles you go back because you could use your new item to progress in a previous area.

unless you really care about the 100 rate.

[Shaka2K6]

' ' Lack of online killed this game for me. ' '
Yep
Just another reason not to buy a wii, andf metroid has always been so boring anyways and the same thing over and over.

[Rooftrellen]

Didn't I see you singing the praises of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction?

Why were you doing that for a game you absoluately hate? It has no multiplayer, so why would you say you can't wait for it, and its going to be great?

Oh right, because you're a fanboy.

Well, since the PS3 is having a single player game that lacks any multiplayer for a reason (because it's just not the experance it is suppose to have), I'll make sure to tell everyone that you suggest not getting it.

On a serious note, how about you go back to the Ratchet & Clank thread and tell everyone how terrible it will be becasue it lacks multiplayer, or correcting yourself here and admit that Metriod could be a good game without the multiplayer?

You can't have it both ways. Either both could be good, or you're not buying a PS3 or Wii because they both have games that don't have multiplayer.

[jacen1000]

yea killed it for me aswell and i owned and completed both metriods on GC so i know how boring it gets after so long ill buy just to see if the graphics are any better and to feel what could have been online with a good control setup, apart from that ill trade it a week later, who cares about exploring in single player that is for kids online is were it is at even the DS version is online, when it all boils down the game needed to be online if not it will have allot less lifespan. i was looking forward to metriod but now that online play isent in game i couldent care less.

[ChickeyCantor]

the DS had online.......and the single player sucked.....go figure....
and for kids? my @ass.

i dont believe you own it, because you would realize its not for kids.

:who cares about exploring in single player that is for kids :
...who cares? o yes i forgat...jacen1000 is the only gamer in this world.

for fVck sake dont act stupid.
if it was a sony franchise or from ms you would be all like omg leedddddddddddz

[jacen1000]

u must be 1 of those KIDS i take it yea i own both metriods for GC completed also i did own the DS version.
Wii version with no online wont keep hardcore gamers happy like ourself obviously your not included in that bunch you want to run around metriod singleplayer for weeks yourself real repetitive crap which would keep me interested for an hour or so.