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GBA | Action | Metroid: Zero Mission

Boxart for Metroid: Zero Mission
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  • GRAPHICS: 5.0
  • SOUND: 4.5
  • CONTROL: 4.5
  • FUN FACTOR 5.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.3
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.5
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First Look: Metroid: Zero Mission

First Look by Evil Star Dingo | 06/12/2003 | 10:05:55 AM PST

Nintendo rewrites history with an apparent GBA ?update? to Samus? original 8-bit adventure.

And now for an entertainment industry double standard: while movie remakes usually suck, and people hate when George Lucas messes with their beloved Star Wars movies by inserting digital slugs where they don?t belong, the same rule does not hold true for video games. As anyone who unlocked the original NES Metroid in Metroid Prime can attest, sometimes you can?t go home again when it comes to classic games?and what once was cool on an 8-bit system is decidedly craptacular in the light of the 21st century.

That?s why the prospect of Metroid: Zero Mission makes a more-then-welcome addition to the GBA library: it?s apparently a "remake" of sorts of Samus? first adventure, with way better graphics, new areas, skills from Metroid sequels, and the oft-copied map system that made its debut in Super Metroid for the SNES. More details are yet to come; stay tuned.


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