For those who have not tried the original, you should be able to get it for relatively cheap if you look around (less than $10 last I checked).

@Obliterator Metroid Prime is an Action Adventure or more specifically a First Person Action Adventure. Just because you are in a First Person point of view and shoot things doesn't make it an FPS. That is like calling Zelda a hack n slash just because you fight things with a sword. The gameplay consists of Puzzles, and Adventuring aspects much more than combat that an Action game(subgenre FPS) would. You don't switch weapons rather than upgrade them, and you also have powerups. Metroid games also were one of the first games to introduce back tracking, and that is a heavy element of Action Adventures. Also would you consider Metroid MEtroid II,Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion 2d Action games like Contra, and Metal Slug? No they are 2d Action Adventures. The only differences with Metroid Prime are that its 3d, and it is in a First Person point of view. The only FPS metroid game is Metroid Prime Hunters, and I actually don't think of it as a metroid game.

Huh? Perfect example of how to contradict your opinion with your own link.

From the review on this link at gamespot, we can read " It's not a first-person shooter.".

I think that settles it then.

I just started playing that last week-end, though I have the game since years.

I don't like FPS because they're all boring me to death fast.

Anyway, I quit the spaceshift and I'm not bored yet, so it seems I can actually finish this game.

But sure enough it doesn't feel like a FPS.

If you're going with Doom or Quake as classic examples of FPS, then Metroid Prime is NOT an FPS. The vibe that I got most from it was that it was a 1st person perspective futuristic Zelda. Even if you took out all the enemies, you'd stil have a ton and a half of exploration and puzzles and mazes to get through. the only issue is that your method of interaction with these puzzles is often some form of shooting.

The real problem is that people are going through and saying "Oh, there's shooting involed, therefor a shooter!" Which just really isn't the case unless shooting takes up about 90% of the gameplay elements. Like has been mentioned before, MP barely has 50% of teh gameplay as shooting, I'd rank it actually more towards 35-40%

I did pass up on Metroid Prime when it was FPS on the gamecube though. I seriously don't like Dual Analog Sticks for controlling FPS. Once MP3 came out for the Wii, I snatched that up and it basically solves all of those aiming issues I had with

I like the first-person perspective. I haven't played Metroid Prime yet for the Gamecube. But they are priced cheap:

Metriod Prime--$6.99
Metriod Prime 2: Echoes--$19.99

At Gamestop/EBGames. I'm going to scoop those games up since I have a Nintendo Gamecube now.

I'm with the OP, accept for different reasons. Yes I'm against it turning into a first person shooter, and yes, that's part of the reason the series is dead to me now, but man I tell you. The day you get rid of my superdash, moon jump, and screw attack, is the day Metroid stops being the series I fell in love with :P

Metroid was almost NEVER about the guns, and back-tracking was ONLY cool because you had those awesome friggin powers!!! Back-tracking in first person shooters

I skipped it because its not FPS enough actually. the snes game was quite amazing and then when prime 1 came out I played it a bit and hated the control (hold button to aim in FPS...yuck), the scanning and puzzle elements and platforming...been avoiding MP2 and 3 like the plague.

Why in the world does your link text say Nintendo yet the URL it links to is VGChartz?  Why did you do that?

Also, why are taking the world of a 3rd party web site management company (I told you NOA does not operate the web site themselves) when Nintendo, Miyamoto, Retro Studios, dozens of respectable media outlets, myself and others are telling you what it is classified as?

Clunky?  It's considered one of the smoothest game out there.

Um, Retro Studios developed the game (Metroid Prime series), not Miyamoto and his teams.

Ive played and beat the first Metroid Prime, pretty far in part 2 (gc), and about halfway in corruption. I also have the Hunters for the DS too, but my DS doesnt get much play time (don't like tiny screens)

Overall, I like the FPS-ish style that Metroid went

While I can understand Valkyria00's opinion on FPS games (I really only like Battlefield's style so far), I wholeheartedly disagree that a 3rd person view of a Metroid game would be better.

The classic 2D Metroids were awesome for what they are with Super Metroid as the top of its class. However, the realism and immersion you get with the Prime series is so much better in every way its inconceivable how someone who likes Metroid game play wouldn't immediately like these games.

I think you really should try Metroid Prime again and at least play for a couple hours. This should easily get you past the "training" part of the game and into the real game. You can easily get it off of ebay for a few dollars.

Also, Prime games are NOT FPS. They are FP Action-Adventure. Its just that there are no other games that really fit that genre so no one has it as an option in their lists so it either gets classified as FPS or Action game. FPS games are directed, simple, quick action/response shooting sprees. Metroid Prime is much closer to Zelda or similar than any FPS game.