Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
| Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | |
| Developer: | Retro Studios |
| Publisher: | Nintendo |
| Designer: | Retro Studios |
| Release date: | November 15, 2004 |
| Genre: | First-person adventure |
| Game modes: | Single player, multiplayer |
| ESRB rating: | Teen (T) |
| Platform: | Nintendo GameCube |
| Media: | 1.5 gigabyte optical disc |
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2 Gameplay 3 Release information 4 Marketing 5 See Also 6 External Links |
The game takes place on the planet Aether, where a brooding race of mosquito-like creatures, the Luminoth, are living off of large generators in the core of the planet. A Phazon meteor strikes the planet, dividing the energy into light and dark dimensions. This new dark world is home to the Ing, a race of dark, liquid like creatures that can inhabit the bodies of the living and the dead. The Ing and Luminoth are locked in a bitter struggle for survival, as Aether cannot support both worlds. On top of this, the Space Pirates invade the planet, hoping to reap phazon lost in Tallon IV. Samus Aran is sent into investigate as well. She meets and forms an alliance with the Luminoth. Samus is given a container that will allow her to harvest all the energy from the reactors on the dark side of the planet. By bringing the energy back, Samus can dissolve the Dark world into the Light world. However, the Ing cannot leave the dark side. To prevent their extinction, Dark Samus, Samus's counterpart, plans to harvest all of the light world's energy and bring it to the dark world, dissolving the light world in the process.
The game features both a comprehensive single-player and multiplayer mode. Single-player will differ from previous Metroid games, for example the existence of light and dark beams (which give damage if Samus is in the side of the world that is opposite of the beam, and which will have limited ammunition), multiple lock-ons for missiles, and the ability to switch between the light and dark worlds at will (the dark world, however, damages Samus when she is not protected in by a large bubble object that appears throughout the world). The screw attack from Metroid/', ', Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion, is also returning with a third-person wall-jumping mode. The new Echoes Visor, which allows Samus to see sound, will also be featured. A new character, Dark Samus, is also being introduced in one-player mode.
Very little is known about multiplayer mode, but it has been confirmed that it will feature the morph ball and a lock-on system. In the multiplayer, the game makers decided to make things harder by being able to get people that are locked on to you to lose their lock by transforming into a morphball.
The game is slated for release in the USA on November 15, 2004, and the European release has been confirmed for November 26, 2004.
Nintendo have made the curious decision not to convert the game into a PAL 50Hz mode for its European release. The game only supports a 60Hz PAL display, which is usually an option available in European game releses. As a result, the game will be unplayable, or suffer from visual distortion (squashed, stretched, or rolling image) on televisions which do not support 60Hz modes. The game itself, and advertising, make this clear, although whether the average user will be aware of what the warning means is uncertain.
It is believed that the PAL50 conversion was omitted in order to have the game ready for the highly lucrative Christmas videogame sales period; Nintendo have not yet announced a PAL50 version for release a later date.
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Gameplay
Release information
Marketing
Alternate Reality Game
Probably in response to rival Halo 2's Alternate Reality Game, The Haunted Apiary, Nintendo recently launched two related sites. For a timeline of the game so far, see here.
Channel 51
Channel 51 is modeled after conspiracy-theory websites. There are numerous connections with Metroid. For example, the author's pseudonym is "Samantha Manus;" this name takes its first three letters and last two from "Samus." Ms. Manus hails from a "Sumas, Washington"; "Sumas" is an anagram of "Samus", and Nintendo of America's headquarters are in Washington state. Also, the website offers grainy QuickTime videos that it dubs "The Rossler Transmission", which were taken from Metroid Prime 2.Orbis Labs
Orbis Labs is a development firm of sorts. Their current project is the "Battle Sphere", which promises to have all the power of a tank and all the mobility of an infantry unit as it allows soldiers to morph into its shell. It seems to be based on the ubiquitous Morph Ball item from the Metroid series.See Also
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