Retro Studios and Naughty Dogs

[Albicant]

archbrix said:

Albicant said:
Retro studios essentially had to fill in for Rare, which was always going to be tough on them. They're not the most prolific bunch, but they pulled off Metroid Prime nicely.

Prime 3 was a bit of a step down though for me, it just seemed to be going through the motions. Still looking forward to seeing what they've been working on! Hopefully Nintendo lets them do something ambitious.

@bolded: That I'll agree with. It's just that after Prime 2's tedious dark world, Prime 3 was refreshing to me personally... as long as we ignore the voice acting...

What impressed me most about Prime 3 was how flawlessly smooth it ran, and coupled with the beautiful implementation of the pointer controls (on the expert settings anyway) the game set the standard for first person games controlling like a dream on Wii.

That's true, of all the shooters I played on the Wii, Prime 3 used the controller best. Retro always nail the controls with their games. Prime 3 was definitely well polished, but I just found it a bit derivitive.

I can see what you mean about Prime 3 being refreshing after Prime 2 though; I found the second game a little tedious too, but I'm not sure why! It felt the most like a Metroid game out of the whole trilogy to me; Metroid should be hostile, mysterious, dark and atmospheric, which the game was, but it never really hooked me. Maybe there were too many light/dark world games released around that time.