Earlier this week I covered Metroid’s early days, with a look at the 2D origins of Nintendo’s sci-fi platformer. Today I will look at what Metroid has been doing lately, in the last and current generation of console gaming. Released alongside Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime was a new direction for the series – moving onto the GameCube, a new sub-series was born. The ‘Prime’ series are set early in the Metroid timeline, between the first Metroid, and Metroid II. However, as opposed to [...]






