Samus, after exploring the station, comes face to face with the cause of the distress signal: the Parasite Queen. All of the escape pods had been launched 6 hours prior to Samus' arrival. However, most of the Pirates are dead, and those that remain are in weak physical condition. The ship, the Orpheon, was maintained by the Space Pirate Science Team engaged in the genetic enhancement of various creatures native to Tallon IV. Upon investigation, she realizes it is one of the few Space Pirate frigates that escaped her attack on Zebes.
Samus Aran, having destroyed the Space Pirate stronghold on Zebes during her Zero Mission three years ago, starts traversing across the galaxy in search of a client, when she intercepts a distress signal coming from a space station in orbit above Tallon IV. This game's events follow those of Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission. Samus arrives at the Frigate Orpheon, following the distress signal. Several pirate research vessels were orbiting Zebes when Samus fought on the surface below.Īfter the fall of Mother Brain, the ships escaped, with the hope of finding enough resources to rebuild their forces and take their revenge.Īfter discovering a possible pirate colony on planet Tallon IV, Samus has once again prepared for war, hoping to end the Pirate threat forever. Descending to the very core of the pirate stronghold, Samus exterminated the energy-based parasites called "Metroids" and defeated Mother Brain, the leader of the pirate horde.īut the Space Pirates were far from finished. This is especially noted by the presence of the titular Metroid creatures, which were exterminated in the second Metroid game.ġ0 years ago, below the surface of Planet Zebes, the mercenaries known as "Space Pirates" were defeated by interstellar bounty hunter Samus Aran. As the first entry in the Prime storyline, the game takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus. While mostly taking place in a first-person perspective, it is officially classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game.
The story follows Samus Aran battling the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on planet Tallon IV. Metroid Prime attained widespread critical acclaim from various publications and was a commercial success, selling over 1 million units in North America alone. Along with Metroid Fusion, it was the first Metroid game to be released since Super Metroid, over eight years earlier. It was developed by Nintendo-owned Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. Metroid Prime ( メトロイドプライム, Metoroido Puraimu ?) is the first 3D Metroid game, released on November 18, 2002.
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