Metroid Prime or Metroid Prime 3?

[Mr Khan]

KylieDog said:
MP3>MP>MP2


My order of preference.


MP3 has better pace than MP, MP had too much backtracking for reasons nothing more than fetch this and that, while all 3 games do this to an extent, MP does it a lot worse than MP3.


I haven't played MP2 yet with motion controls but to me the game had issues that motion controls won't come anywhere near fixing. Namely the light/dark world. Made the entire thing feel like half a game photocopied and presented as a whole one. It also meant that this made the backtracking get taken to a new extreme since not only were you backtracking through the light world but you was also backtracking through the same world twice as much. When you are first playing and exploring also the poison atmosphere of the dark world becomes a simple but highly effective pain in the ass and slows the pace to an almost crawl.


I've nothing against backtacking, RE is my fav series and the original games had lots of it. I think they just manage it badly in the MP series.

I had no particular issue with the light-dark element (other than the fact that it felt slightly out-of-place), but i abhorred the beam ammo system. Still do. I'm playing through it right now. I'm the kind of person who's a little obsessive about preserving my ammo for a future time that may never come, so having that feeling integrated into the game's beams really grated on me.