'Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'
September 10, 2007

By Brendan Kachel
A&E Editor

Samus Aran is an interesting character, as video game heroes go. Coming from a long line of Nintendo heroes who, quite literally, don't say anything, she was a female protagonist (and the revelation that the guy in the robot suit was, in fact, not a gou may be the biggest video game twist ever) well before Lara Croft, in a time when female characters were routinely kidnapped to be rescued, a situation Nintendo can be pretty much blamed for. And, thanks mostly to that robotic, gender blurring power suit, she gained popularity without having to resort to that awful joke, "breast physics."

But enough about Samus' gender. Does the girl got game?

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a first person game, and Samus shoots things, but it isn't a shooter, per se. I was always wary of the older Metroid Prime games on the GameCube. First person games were shooters, not adventures. But after playing the first person RPG Oblivion on the Xbox 360, I was shocked to find that this sort of thing might just work. Add in the precision of the Wii remote, and I was sold.

Thankfully, this game is a big step up from the other failed attempts at first person games on the Wii. The controls are solid, and not likely to cause Samus to spin around awkwardly while space pirates take pot shots at her. The storyline is oddly bleak and depressing, with a very unique visual style that in more colorful than it seems at first.

Rating: 9.5