HOW did *YOU react when you first heard SAMUS' voice at E309??

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Slimebeast said:

Can someone explain to me why people are so excited about Metrid Other M (not just on this site apparently), when it's being made by a developer unproven to the franchise?

Also, I may be wrong, but there aint very much info about the principal design and style of the game yet, right? No gameplay trailers and that kind of stuff either.

So what do u all base your hype on?

Uh....Team Ninja may not have any ties to Metroid, but they certainly have a proven track record.  Personally, they have made one of my favorite Action titles ever (Ninja Gaiden) and fighting series (Dead or Alive).  I feel they are more than capable and this project is pretty much a dream project for me on the scale of what Chrono Trigger was back on the SNES.  And if it turns out as good as it can, it may just be as big of an impact as Chrono Trigger was.

Also to expand on what ClaudeLv250 was saying, some key points of why everyone is hyped for this game:

-The game is taking place between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion.

-The Game is featuring the back story for Adam Malkovitch (The CO computer AI from Fusion) as well as promised 'unseen insight into the backstory of Samus'.

-The game is going to be fully 3D and third person, which is going to utilize something they couldn't do during the development of Metroid Prime (which is why all the Metroid Prime games ended up being First Person).  In other words, a whole new direction for 3D Metroid that Nintendo has been waiting to do ever since the N64.

-The game is promising to push the boundaries of how we look at both Wii games and Action/Platformers.

If you really look at the way the game is developing and the type of game it is, its completly logical why Team Ninja was picked to work on it.  If any developer could help make a new and innovative action/platformer game engine, it would be Team Ninja, who already did so back on the XBOX with Ninja Gaiden.  With Nintendo and Sakamoto overseeing the development, Metroid: Other M may just be the next step in innovating the action genre.