is it better than super metroid?

I didn't think those were as good but still good.

Shame I never got a chance to play the multiplayer since I hear it was good.

Welcome to the club. The game really brought many refreshing elements forward for the genre and the videogame industry.

Different games for different times. I think both games were the best games ever made at the time they came out, but they are so far removed both in terms of time when they came out and their genres, that it is difficult to compare.

Really? The last third of the game was by far the best for me.

The opening was just too good. The opening cutscene just grabs you by the throat.

Your not a true member if the club until you complain in at least 3 separate threads about the 7 out of 10 Polygon review.

I'll admit, at the end I was entirely in the mindset of "I will kill every single one of you, no questions asked, no mercy given. Not one of you will walk out of here in one piece, not one of you will be left to tell others we were ever here."
I haven't had such a visceral, pure emotional reaction in a game since I first played Ace Combat V: The Unsung War. I was entrenched so deep into the story and the atmosphere, that I finally felt completely disconnected from reality while playing.

Such a fantastic game.

This. 

I was similar but I was a "I am running straight toward the surgery room, you leave her the fuck alone and if you get in my way I will paint the walls with your brains, no one is fucking touching her"

 I don't think it has even that much time in cutscenes.