Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
GameCube
18th Nov 2002
21st Mar 2003
28th Feb 2003
- Series
- Characters
- Tags
- Feature Support
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review Metroid Prime (GameCube)
Prime cut
You know the story. By now, everyone does. In 2002, a new Metroid game was released after nearly a decade of silence, and it was done by a little studio in Texas that no one had ever heard of. Oh, and it was 3D. And first person. It shouldn't have worked, but it did, and the ensuing trilogy would secure that little studio as one of the...
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Metroid Prime Guides
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Walkthrough, All Collectibles, Locations, Tips & Tricks
Prime time
Welcome to our Metroid Prime Remastered Full Walkthrough Guide hub! This Metroid Prime Remastered Walkthrough will take you through the entire game from beginning to end, highlighting where to find all key items, including all Scan Entries, Power Suit Upgrade Locations, All Artifact Locations, and how to beat ever
Guide Best Metroid Games Of All Time
Dreadful
Remember, this ranking is based on the games' User Ratings in our database and is subject to real-time change even now. If you haven't rated your Metroid collection, feel free to add your scores and potentially influence the order below. Enjoy! What's the best Metroid game of all time? The reveal and release in 2021 of 'Metroid 5', better...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: All Artifact Locations
Plundering Tallon IV
Your main objective in Metroid Prime Remastered, beyond blasting Space Pirates, is to gather up 12 Chozo Artifacts in order to gain access to the game's final area. In this guide, we'll show you how to get every Artifact in the game, listing every Artifact by location with instructions on how to collect it. Many of the Chozo...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Power Suit Upgrade Locations
Suit up, soldier
Metroid Prime Remastered, like all entries in Nintendo's sci-fi franchise, requires you to rebuild Samus Aran's arsenal and make her powerful enough to take on even the most fearsome of beasties. In this guide, we'll take you through all Power Suit upgrades to find on your travels across the planet Tallon IV, including the...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Chozo Ruins Walkthrough
I don't like sand
Welcome back to our full walkthrough for Metroid Prime Remastered! You've now made your way through the introductory section of Tallon Overworld and now find yourself in the bright, beautiful world of the Chozo Ruins. There's a fair bit to get through here, so keep an eye out for scan entries, upgrades, and all sorts as you make...
Guide Nintendo Music App: Every Game Soundtrack Included - How To Download, All Systems
A new mobile app exclusive to Switch Online members
'Nintendo Music' is a new mobile app from Nintendo giving fans access to thousands of songs throughout Nintendo's history. If you are curious to know what exactly is available on this mobile application, you've come to the right place. Keep in mind, you can only use this smartphone application if...
Guide Games Within Games - The Best Video Games In Other Video Games
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Not long after the arrival of polygons on the video gaming scene, many developers began placing 'Easter Eggs' in their big 3D games that contained references to their older 2D work and even included entire games on occasion. In an age where companies have wised up and realised gamers will...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Phendrana Drifts Walkthrough
Brrrr!
Welcome back to our full walkthrough of Metroid Prime Remastered, and welcome to the beautiful land of Phendrana Drifts. Now that we're out of Magmoor Caverns, we can take a bit of a breather in the knowledge that we're not in any danger of falling into any lava. But we warned, there are still loads of dangerous beasties roaming the...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Walkthrough - Phazon Mines
Radioactive
Welcome back to our full walkthrough of Metroid Prime Remastered. In this section, we'll be diving into the intimidating Phazon Mines. This is probably the most combat-heavy area featured in Metroid Prime and it's absolutely crawling with Space Pirates. By this point, though, you should have a formidable arsenal at your disposal, so...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Phazon Mines Metroid Quarantine
Home stretch
Welcome back to our full walkthrough for Metroid Prime Remastered. We're really in the home stretch now, which means that this section will focus on the Metroid Quarantine segment of the Phazon Mines. We're going to be picking up the last remaining Power Suit upgrades required to take on the game's final boss battles. So let's get...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Hall Of Elders & Sunken Frigate Walkthrough
Ice, ice, baby
Welcome back to our full walkthrough for Metroid Prime Remastered. Now that we're done fighting Thardus, it's time to head back to the Chozo Ruins and Tallon Overworld to explore some additional areas and grab us some more much-needed power-ups. Let's get cracking. Metroid Prime Remastered: Walkthrough - Hall of Elders &...
Guide Metroid Prime Remastered: Missile Expansion Locations
Arm yourselves
In this entry for our Metroid Prime Remastered guide, we'll be listing out all of the Missile Expansion available throughout the game and linking each out to our walkthrough. Collecting all Missile Expansions, beyond simply increasing your firepower, is key to achieving a 100% completion rating in the game, thus unlocking a bonus...
Metroid Prime News
News Piggyback And Nintendo Are Teaming Up On A Metroid Prime Art Book, And It Looks Glorious
Number one Phens
Piggyback, the company behind the official guides for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, has announced that it is once again teaming up with Nintendo on another release. But this is no guide. It's a Metroid Prime art book. 'Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective' launches in Summer 2025, bringing a...
News Stunning Metroid Prime 'Meta Ridley' Statue Up For Pre-Order, But It'll Cost You
Money, that is, not Chozo Artifacts
A gorgeous statue of Metroid Prime's Meta Ridley is now available for pre-order via Big Bad Toy Store for the measly price of $599.99 (say what now?!). Yes, the latest masterpiece from First 4 Figures is a beautiful work of art, but again, it's a costly one. If you've got the cash, though, then it might well...
Poll Which Dormant Nintendo Franchise Would You Most Like To See Return?
We'll never let go
Whenever Nintendo brings a franchise back from the brink of extinction, it's always cause for significant celebration. Take Pikmin, for example: yes, it's hardly the most obvious example since we received Hey! Pikmin in 2017, but it's been over a decade since Pikmin 3 launched on the Wii U. Despite the ongoing rumours and hints...
Talking Point Which Gaming Moments Made You Question Your Intelligence?
Uh... what... who..?
Human beings are smart. Really smart. We're the only species on earth with the brainpower to comprehend its own existence. We've landed on the moon, built great feats of engineering, constructed huge buildings that pierce the clouds in the sky, and made tremendous leaps in the fields of science and medicine. So yeah, we're a...
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel: Metroid Fusion
X marks the spot
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Soapbox As A Colour Blind Gamer, I Can Now Finally Beat Metroid Prime
Prime-ary colours
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Rory how the recent release of Metroid Prime Remastered has enabled him to settle an old score. Prime endboss spoilers inbound... I know. I was a handsome bugger. It’s always...
Video Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch Vs. GameCube Comparison
Looks gooood. Can confirm.
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Random Metroid Prime's OG Engineer Isn't Happy About The Remastered Doors
"This should be fixed"
After months — heck, possibly years — of rumours, Metroid Prime Remastered is finally out on the Nintendo Switch as a digital download, with a physical edition available later this month on February 22nd. While many folks seem overjoyed at the remastered visuals in the game, one original Retro Studios' developer has...
Feature 6 Things We'd Love To See In Metroid Prime 4
It's been four years since development was restarted
This week — today, in fact — marks an astonishing four years since the announcement that work on Metroid Prime 4 had been restarted from scratch and shifted over to original developer Retro Studios. We all remember the day when Shinya Takahashi, Senior Managing Executive Officer at Nintendo,...
Feature Every Metroid Prime Location, Ranked
From Phazon to Phendrana
Note: the YouTube embeds featured in this article will naturally contain footage of some of the boss encounters within Metroid Prime, including the final boss. If you've never played the game, take this as your spoiler warning! (Also, you've never played Metroid Prime!? *tuts and shakes head for several minutes*) The...
About The Game
Samus first stopped the evil Space Pirates and Mother Brain from amassing an army of Metroids on the planet Zebes.Then she was called on to finish the job on SR388, ultimately ridding the universe of all but a single Metroid larva.
In Super Metroid, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Samus thwarted Mother Brain's attempt to snatch the captive Metroid larva from the scientists on Ceres. Now, Samus is once again called to investigate Space Pirate activities on the unexplored Tallon IV. Her adventure begins as she enters a mysterious derelict spaceship.
Features
- Traverse a crippled spaceship and explore the vast worlds of Tallon IV in an all-new first-person perspective!
- Take advantage of Samus's many powers using new suits that enable her to gain new abilities and revisit earlier worlds to uncover many hidden secrets.
- Master Samus's combat, scan, and visors - elements crucial to your success.
- Explore each area to find many familiar weapons, such as the Wave Beam and Freeze Beam, and some all-new ones as well.
- Choose the right weapon or ability carefully for the situation at hand. Samus will need to use all of the suit and visor abilities as well as many specialized weapons to navigate deadly Tallon IV!
Comments 18
The best gcn game I have ever played.
i found it for ten buck this weekend!
never played it (only the advance and snes games.
it takes a bit getting used to at first (i never played anything in first person) the tension is awesome and the puzzles can really get you thinking, reminded me a bit of the feeling 3d zelda's give me sometimes.
so absolutely get it when you can _
Oh man, this game is worth playing just for that weird Hornet boss.
Edit: No, wait... is this the one with the snow world?
@pie4prez yea it is.
the best theme music in the history of the universe
@Dragoon
I couldn't agree more.
My local game retailer has this for $5. Should I get it?
@Jumbif NOW
@Dragoon i agree
I got this used with the echoes bonus disc for 3.99 at my local gamestop, amazing game, worth more than 3$
I love this game to bad Im not so good at it
Definitely worth the full price and this rating. One of the best GCN games I've played.
Why 10/10 no no it deserves 100/10. It beats dual analog sticks and triggers. These proved the Metroid is still one of Nintendo's finest projects. Thumbs up to Nintendo Life for the review, thumbs up for Retro for creating it, and double thumbs-up for NIntendo delivering it. Best Gamecube Ever!
Man this game is awesome. I remember never playing a metroid game before blindly grabbing this one at gamestop due to the cover. Best gaming decision of my life.
Absolutely flawless, what an incredible game from start to finish! Possibly my favourite FPS ever!
A great game. A bit hard but in a fair way and it gives you a lot of satisfaction when you finally get past a hard part.
I believe this game is under rated it may be a hard game, but it is beautiful and gives great rewards for the hard work that is put in. Honestly a game that everyone should attempt
Without doubt my best GameCube game Metroid Prime is a gem I love everything about it gameplay is fun I like the puzzles LOVE the beams collecting the health tanks it's just a masterpiece. The music is AMAZING! keeps you entertained and I enjoy exploring around the areas bosses were spot on creative and all around fun!.
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