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Category: Video Games
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 1288
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: 100730
Model: NTR P AMHE
UPC: 045496735272
EAN: 0400069166073
ASIN: B0009Z3MQ0
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Cartridge only. Game is in good shape! Ships in bubble mailer First Class.
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 This game is pretty darn cool December 25, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is really cool! I have it, I should know. Here's a tip: The cretaphids are REALLY sensitive to shock coil. The slenches are harder. Especially the 4th one. I like the multiplayer mode. But, ya' hafta UNLOCK the different prime hunters. When you've gotten 8 octoliths, You can proceed to the GOREA. The hardest boss in the game. You hafta defeat GOREA's SEAL SPHERE to win. This is a pretty darn good game for the video game enthusiast.
If you have quick access to wi-fi you should buy it. November 19, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to agree with all the nasty things about the single player mode. It just doesn't live up to metroid standards in my mind. The multiplayer is great online though. As for all the problems with people getting paired with high ranking players I have not experienced this but once or twice. I've heard complaints about matches where everybody just use alt forms. To me these matches are a blast. When they are played on the small stage like combat hall it can get intense. Those complaints of people sniping with trace, alt-forming with samus, using sylux, and winning in just a couple minutes are frankly, childish. These are just the better players in the game. The majority of better players use trace and samus, as do I. The game is tough online. Heck, i've seen people who've lost over a thousand matches. Took me almost 100 games to win one. Now I win about 90.0% of the time. But you will get paired with people your skill lvl usually and when you get better playing with high rankers is great.
 One of the best Metroid games out there! November 7, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This one get's a five stars both way's becuase of it's... of it's...of it's everything! The frist player mode is great, the wifi mode is great, and the multiplayer mode, you got it, Great! The game is a first-person view shooter style, so to enjoy a game like that you need good graphic's. And this game has absolutely awesome graphic's! The story of the frist player mode is:
A destroyed race has only left behind relics of it's once peaceful kind. And the race has also left behind a power that made it the most powerful race out there. So now, bounty hunters across the univeres are trying to find! Now it's up to samus to find the power, and restore the peace that it gave! But the other bounty hunter's, are trying to find, and take it for themselves and there own race, and that would make them the most powerful race! So can you, as samus, find the acient power before the other bounty's do! Will you make it out alive! there are four planet's that hold secret's to get to the power! You will need to find key's to the aceint power that are scattered all over the four planets! Can you solve the mystery...alive!
That does it for the first player mode here's, so the wifi:
The problem is over, and the bountys just want to have some fun! You compete in a game that only one bounty hunter will win in! Who are you? Which ever bounty you want to be! So compete against player's across the world! And fight to come in first!
That's it for the Wifi! I hope you enjoy the game! I did! Pick it up or order it today! Becuase I promise you'll love this game! I most certianly recommend!
 Metroid Prime Hunters = a waste of $35 October 27, 2006
3 out of 21 found this review helpful
After playing through half of the single player mode and obtaining a Rank 3/5 on the online component of the game, I have decided to warn everybody about this game.
#1. The single player mode is BORING. It is REPETITIVE.
#2. The bosses are RECYCLED. Hooray for fighting the same boss 3 times with another cheap gimmick added in to make it more difficult.
#3. Weapons: they are TERRIBLE. To be blunt, there are THREE useful weapons in the game (Imperialist, Missiles, and that freeze gun).
#4. Out of most of the people I play online, I gathered some data of different players and found that approximately 67/104 players (~65%) would rather chase people around in their alt-form (morph ball, etc.) rather than have a firefight.
#5. Balance: the other weapons (with the exception of the 3 weapons I mentioned above) are peashooters compared to those three. I will explain this is detail later.
#6. Glitches: I have counted over 20 different glitches that can be used to give an unfair advantage of the glitcher. For example you can fire a missile at the floor and launch yourself through a wall. From there, you can safely 1-shot everybody without having to worry about getting hit by gunfire because they cant hit you when you are behind a wall.
#7. Matchmaking: Frequently I find myself being matched with rank 5s (highest rank), which basically means good game for you (loss). You are either matched with a) completely new players or b) top ranked players.
#8. Communication: The 'friend-code' system is completely unnecessary, and not being able to do anything but a 4 player Free-For-All on Wi-Fi just gets plain repetitive.
#9. Exploiting: Using the freezing gun I mentioned earlier (forget the name), and the hunter 'Noxus,' you can use his affinity weapon to freeze people who are nowhere near you, and three shot them with the freeze gun to their head.
#10. Levels: There are 3 levels that are nearly identical to 3 other levels, but just have an extra room or have the weapons relocated for further frustration.
#11. Hunters: Two of the hunters COMPLETELY SUCK.
#12. No variety. I have once gotten into 3 separate games in-a-row that everyone picked the trigger-happy hunter, Trace.
#13. Level Design: absolutely HORRIBLE. Levels like Head Shot or Weapons Complex just make me want to drill a hole in my game. It's almost as if Nintendo never thought of designing levels SPECIFICALLY for capture or survival.
In conclusion: I find this game extremely frustrating, and nowhere near rewarding for completing goals within the game. If Nintendo had thought more and looked at other FPS games for inspiration and ideas, I think this game would have been five times better. Not impressed.
Spend your money on something else, this game is not worth purchasing.
Metroid Without the "Metroid" October 26, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I would just like to say that I do not think that "Metroid Prime: Hunters" is a bad game; I do, however, think that it is a bad "Metroid" game. "Metroid Prime: Hunters" is a very fun romp in the boots of Samus Aran (and, really, who wouldn't want to romp Samus' boots?), and a very good first-person shooter, too - especially for a handheld. But, the game blatantly strips away a great deal of the adventure and exploration elements expected in a "Metroid"-titled game - signatures of the "Metroid" series, really - and doesn't do much to make up for the absense. Earlier first-person "Metroid" games ("Metroid Prime" and "Metroid Prime 2: Echoes") still had full-bore worlds for Samus to explore, complete with all sorts of hidden areas and unique tricks that the series has had for years, but that's all gone in "Hunters".
That's the single-player adventure, though. The multiplayer is excellent FPS stuff. Varied arenas, varied characters, and it's wonderfully responsive. The WiFi Connection play is great, as long as you and your opponents have strong signals. The ability to use computer A.I.-controlled bots is great, and something that a great many FPS' is missing. But here, it's very welcome.
"Metroid Prime: Hunters" for Nintendo DS is a very stream-lined, very straight-forward first-person shooter, and comes off as something mindless and a bit generic, and in the end is hardly befitting the "Metroid" name.
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