This last weekend, I got my hands on Metroid 3, for my beloved Wii. I’ve been playing the various incarnations of Metroid since back in the NES days. Remember winning the game fast enough so you could see Samus in a bikini? Such memories…such scandal. I killed many an hour slapping away at that game.

Shortly after popping in the disk and arming myself with the remote, Metroid 3 quickly became one of my favorite games for that system so far. Now an FPS game, the ability to aim with the Wii remote really, truly kicks some ass. I haven’t enjoyed a shooter on a console till the Wii came along with it’s miraculous controller, preferring to play those games on a PC, with a keyboard and mouse. The Wii’s completely changed that and Metroid 3 is a prime example of just how awesome the gameplay can be.

In more than a few ways, the game reminds me a lot of Halo. Of course, considering the history, you could say the opposite, since Metroid has been around in some form since I was in grade school. Irregardless, I love this game. Where it lacks in graphical punch, it more than makes up for in gameplay and storyline. I am frickin’ addicted.

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