Is metroid 3 60 frames? Not that i don't like FPS's but M3 was claustrophobic as all hell. This does look faster, more detailed and apart from aliens ( which are not as funky as humans ) i like the games look thus far.

based on the trailer it looks action packed which is a plus for me

Yes metroid prime 3 ran at 60fps. Also it is an AAction- Adventure with shooter elements.

Where visuals are concerned it puts MP3 to shame.
Let's hope that they deliver on the gameplay end as they are claiming.

Well the graphics have improved vastly since it was first revealed, hopefully the gameplay and story are of the same quality. I`m still cautious about how this will turn out but I`m beginning to become quite interested in this game.

with at least 6 months remaining until it's release and the statement that the single player is finished then it's a pretty safe bet there's no element of this will be rushed.

Gameplay is not the concern, the concern for me is advertising and it's success.

Wow, they really fix'd the Lightning. That's what made games like Resident Evil 4 look so good.

And they still have more than enough time for multiplayer and polishing! Great stuff

I'm really impressed by the look of the game. If they have a made a dev-friendly engine, they will make loads of money just out of licenses.

My only hope is that they've nailed the controls and that the overall gameplay is on the same level as graphics

Hype levels at maximum..Nintendo as a publisher would do this game justice. It deserves lot's of publicity, just for the sheer amount of work HV are puttingin this game. Each screen and video are vastly better than the last info we had. The first trailer was a bit grainy but this is smooth and frantic.

The other good news are that their other Wii effort, Gyrostar is succesful (link) so we can expect Animales de Muerte be released with good word-by-mouth for the company. Nintendo should sign them up as second party after the Conduit's release.

You got two points off. Firstly, the GC just had bump mapping, which is just normal mapping with monochrome instead of full color (which means it takes a lot less memory). Since the textures underneath have full color, it's not really losing that much to just do bump mapping. In fact, the demo for the Quantum 3 engine says it just used bump mapping instead of normal mapping, just really high quality bump mapping.

Secondly, it was the lack of texture compression that was the problem with the PS2. The system could still do the same mapping and resolution on the textures (trust me on this), but the color depth is a lot lower, as well as the polygon count.