![]() Their battles cries are straight from the bigger-brother console series. Again, the Pirate Frigate, is the well-worn insides of the industrial space-ship manned by the pirates themselves. ![]() Samus looks at home here, and players of the Prime series will no doubt identify with this unique location. The ramps and gutters twist and around the steaming vegetation and rocky outcrops. Tallon Overworld is a monsoonal, volcanic and earthy table. The tables draw upon Metroid Prime series locations, and the heart and essence of these exotic and varied locations is rendered nicely and above all, accurately. It's brilliant, and goes to show that some extra care and thought has gone into this title. This slots into the GBA port, and gives a satisfying rattle and rumble effect on a hand-held system. All of these elements are heightened by the included "rumble-pak". The flippers control great, and give that addictive sling-shot feeling that all good pinballers give. The ball (Samus) is fluid, controllable, and retains that feeling that you are in fact smashing a little bounty hunter around. ![]() The reason it works so well is that the core game play is built around a great physics engine. Well, truly, Metroid Prime has been converted into a successful pinball title. So, could another lovechild of platform and pinball pay-off? Or is this questionable, (yet highly repeated), Frankensteinian experiment doomed to pervert the laws of nature, like so many others? But enough about these preliminary pinball particulars, proceed promptly. Also, the game itself was a sparse, almost minimalist take on pinball, with little environmental interaction, and suspiciously flat surfaces. I found it a little more difficult to accept Mario as a perpetually squashed and spheroid spinal-victim - it just seemed forced. We can accept Mario as a basket baller, a golfer, a tennis-star and even as a doctor of medicine. Mario Pinball on the Gameboy Advance saw an even stranger conversion. Sonic Spinball for example, undoubtedly inspired by Sonic's quasi ball-like nature, was not really the best Sonic game, nor was it the best pinball game. Metroid Prime kann zwar nicht mit riesigem Umfang punkten, macht aber trotzdem eine Menge Spaß.įew games cross the genre divide without losing some sort of vital elements. Schade auch, dass die Highscores sich nicht ins Internet hochladen lassen und dass der Multiplayer-Modus relativ öde geraten ist. Immerhin dürft ihr den Boss danach so oft besiegen, wie ihr wollt und könnt den Highscore weiter in die Höhe treiben. Dank des niedrigen Schwierigkeitsgrades gibt es kaum Frust-Momente, andererseits ist der Abenteuermodus dadurch schon nach kurzer Zeit durchgespielt. Die Kulissen wurden liebevoll in Szene gesetzt, die Kugelphysik wirkt glaubwürdig, die Tische sind motivierend gestaltet und es gibt diverse Multiball-Modi. Doch auch wer die Saga nicht kennt und beim Wort Metroid an einen Wettersatelliten denkt, kommt auf seine Kosten. Metroid-Fans freuen sich über die auf dem Spielfeld herumwuselnden Gegner und die eingängigen Melodien aus dem Vorbild. Na also - es geht doch! Pinball-Fans können aufatmen, da ist er also endlich, der erste spaßige DS-Flipper. Check it out if you're a Metroid fan, you might find yourself as addicted as I was. That's the charm of pinball, and Metroid Prime Pinball does it perfectly. Even after one play-through, you'll want to play it over and over to get the highest score you possibly can. Still, this is the best pinball game you're going to play for a very long time. The Multi Mission mode is difficult but once you get the hang of the different levels, I'd say it only takes a few good sessions before you've completed the game. That's all there is, so unfortunately there aren't many different modes of play. ![]() Once you're finished with the final boss in the game's Multi Mission mode, there's the score-based Single Mission mode and a Wireless Multiplayer mode. I've mentioned it several times that I can't believe I enjoyed a pinball game so much, but it's really not all that surprising when you consider how well it captures the feeling of the source matter, Metroid Prime.
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