Nintendo VC News | Super Metroid Blasts Onto Wii

By Adam Riley 20.08.2007 16

The latest batch of Virtual Console games have now been unleashed in the US for Wii owners, and Super Metroid is leading the pack.

Super Metroid (Super NES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
The Space Pirates, merciless agents of the evil Mother Brain, have stolen the last Metroid from a research station, and once again Mother Brain threatens the safety of the galaxy. Samus Aran must don her awesome array of high-tech weaponry to retrieve the deadly Metroid hidden deep within the cave-riddled planet Zebes. Super Metroid features excellent graphics, with a huge variety of enemies and worlds to explore. The side-view action will be familiar to many players, only now there are new weapons and items, including the Grappling Beam, which allows Samus to swing across large chasms, and the X-Ray Scope, which reveals secret passages.

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Box art for Super Metroid
Developer

Intelligent Systems

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

2D Platformer

Players

1

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  10/10 (10 Votes)

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Mandown is offline. Mandown 20.08.2007#1

God I hope we dont have to wait till a week before it comes out here, I would like to think not.{LS]

 
jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 20.08.2007#2

Don't forget to check out the review of Super Metroid here: http://www.cubed3.com/review/188/ Smilie

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 21.08.2007#3

Damn they're lucky, that's my single most wanted game. I really hope it gets here soon X3

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mooojc is offline. mooojc 21.08.2007#4

Super Metroid = definite get.

 
WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 21.08.2007#5

UK will have to wait till Metroid Prime 3's release week for Super Metroid.Smilie

 
the boy who likes to is offline. the boy who likes to 21.08.2007#6

I'm not so sure Wayne.

With that kind of thinking that would mean that we (UK) wouldn't get Metroid (NES) until about two weeks before MP3. But Metroid came out on the VC for the UK a while back.

Fingers crossed that we get it soon though.

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Mandown is offline. Mandown 21.08.2007#7

Triple post WaYnE.

There is also a review on IGN ive jus noticed, they game it a 9.5 outstanding.{LS]

 
WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 21.08.2007#8

Linkyshinks [LS] said:
Triple post WaYnE. There is also a review on IGN ive jus noticed, they game it a 9.5 outstanding.{LS]

I know. Smilie Not sure why that's happened. I've alerted the mods to delete the extras.

I've never played Super Metroid so can't wait to play it.

EDIT: Thanks Mod!!

( Edited on 21.08.2007 16:27 by IfritXVII )

 
J4K is offline. J4K 21.08.2007#9

Super Metroid will definitely a game that I'd be getting from the VC. I don't believe I've played it before (the Metroid Series is one I really neat to become acquainted with).

edit:

Thanks Mod!!

Hehe - no problem. Smilie

( Edited on 21.08.2007 16:30 by Jacob4000 )

 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 22.08.2007#10

the boy who likes to said:
Im not so sure Wayne.With that kind of thinking that would mean that we (UK) wouldnt get Metroid (NES) until about two weeks before MP3. But Metroid came out on the VC for the UK a while back.Fingers crossed that we get it soon though.

That's exactly my thinking, it would seem kind of pointless seeing as we have had the NES game a while now. Hell it could even turn up on friday I reckon, given the randomness of the VC selection in germany. The germans may feel we are missing out on some of the Metroid goodness and re-inburse us with this. People should make sure they have 800 Wii Points just case.{LS]

 
Arielle is offline. Arielle 22.08.2007#11

Ah, finally. I've never gotten to play Super Metroid before. Now I can. Smilie

 
Udkedae is offline. Udkedae 22.08.2007#12

NintendoArielle said:
Ah, finally. Ive never gotten to play Super Metroid before. Now I can. Smilie

I played it before. The story rocks, it takes me back to when my brothers didn't led me touch the SNES Smilie

Still a great game, one of the "Nintendo's Biggest Hits & Classics", worth of buying and with a hard difficulty level Smilie


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Yoyoenix91 is offline. Yoyoenix91 23.08.2007#13

All I know is that I'm downloading Super Metroid IMMEDIATELY, when the chance arrives. ^_^

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Super Sonic is offline. Super Sonic 27.09.2007#14

Super Metroid is going to be on of the best games that i will get for the VC and it is one of the best sidescrolling Metroid games along with Metroid fusion which i hope will come out as well. Super Metroid has evrything you could hope for in a metroid game. I really hope it comes here very soon.Smilie



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MathU is offline. MathU 27.09.2007#15

Fusion was a perverse blasphemy.

Of course, that's just an opinion.
 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 27.09.2007#16

MathU said:
Fusion was a perverse blasphemy.
Hell noe!

Also, please don't revive old topics, thanks, this is more than a month old.

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