Anyone playing Metroid Prime 3?

Paul van der Laan

I bought the game yesterday and enjoy it very much. The controls are as intuitive as I expected them to be.

I've noticed that during the game you earn 'friend credits' that can be sent to someone else with a copy of the game. So, who has a copy (PAL version) and would like to receive some credits?

Daren

Paul van der Laan wrote: »

I bought the game yesterday and enjoy it very much. The controls are as intuitive as I expected them to be.

I've noticed that during the game you earn 'friend credits' that can be sent to someone else with a copy of the game. So, who has a copy (PAL version) and would like to receive some credits?

I got it a couple of months back and played it for quite a while until I got stuck on a boss. I'll go back to it at some point when I can be arsed. It is indeed a very good game with excellent controls, the best for a console FPS.

Vampyre

Played it today. The controls threw me at first as I didn't expect to be rotating using the remote - I thought the analogue stick would do do that and you would hold down the C or Z to strafe, like Metroid Prime's on the Cube.

However, after half-an-hour it's completely natural and it plays brilliantly. I expect every other future FPS on the Wii to copy it.

Bermondsey Bob

I've only had time to play it once so far (Just beat the first boss), but I'm finding it too samey to the first 2 games. It will probably pick up after a while though!

Daren

Vampyre wrote: »

I thought the analogue stick would do do that and you would hold down the C or Z to strafe, like Metroid Prime's on the Cube.

You _do_ hold down Z on the nunchuk to strafe.

I wish Wiikey would hurry up and release their firmware update, I'm dying to play Super Mario Galaxy...

thehive

Z doesn't strafe, it z-locks the target. Straffing is done with the analogue stick.

Daren

thehive wrote: »

Z doesn't strafe, it z-locks the target. Straffing is done with the analogue stick.

Yes, but you can only strafe whilst holding down the Z button, which is what I thought Vampyre was talking about.

Vampyre

What I meant was that I expected pushing left/right on the analogue stick would rotate left/right as it did on the GC versions and that you would simply use the remote to aim on-screen. Think of it like the RE4 Wii controls.

TheHive is correct, left/right always strafes, you don't need to hold down the Z button. Z just makes a target stay centre-screen.

Daren

Ah, ok, I got confused.

Oooh, Manhunt 2 is up for download.

Vampyre

I've been playing it for a bit now and got to the second planet (so I *was* fully Phazon-mega-suit equipped) and I'm at the second landing point which means I've lost that suit.

Is that all I lose? If so, I'm disappointed as the Metroid games have been built around Samus having *all* her abilities from start of game then at some point near the begining she loses more or less everything. That's what's so brilliant about these games, those inaccessible areas *are* inacessible until Samus collects the right piece of equipment (usually after much hardship). So far with MP3 it seems as though I can't access areas because I haven't got the right weapon which is not quite the same. I really hope I'm wrong and you do lose everything at some point.

Can anyone confirm this? That's all I'm looking for, I'm avoiding gamefaqs.com like the plague as I want to play this through to completion without knowing anything, but this aspect is worrying me a little.