My partner suggested I go find a game for her Wii after I complained of boredom with the 360 and it's utter lack of compelling titles. With low expectations, I browsed for something that might appeal to my hardcore sensibilities - whilst not visually resembling something from a two-year-old's Playmobil toybox. And lo! Metroid Trilogy? I'd heard of that ... and an FPS, of all things? I'd heard of COD and such like being ported to the Wii, but the universal lambasting and panning they received made me disregard any idea of purchasing them, even though the idea of using the nunchuk and wand for FPS was once, extremely appealing.
Well, I bought this package, it being good value and all, and on the basis of playing the first in the series, Metroid Prime, I can unequivocally say that it's the best FPS I have ever played. Yes, an eleven-year-old FPS experience beats the modern-day COD/BF3 churn hands down, purely for being excellently paced, extremely difficult, cerebrally taxing and utterly compelling - to say nothing about how the controls are an absolute revelation to me, as a keyboard/mouse/joypad junkie of countless years.
I would also like to say the game is brilliantly innovative, but that would be to profess enormous ignorance of the fact that FPS games (and all 'hardcore' titles in general) have been increasingly dumbed down in the years since these games have been released. To compare the gameplay of Metroid with modern FPS titles is really unfair, in a kind of diametrically opposed way of comparing COD's graphics on the 360 with that of Metroid Prime on the GameCube (even though they are surprisingly good, too). There is simply no competition.
It is very telling of today's game publishing standards that in 2013, a game consumer gets blown away by the quality of an eleven-year-old game. Not because it is surprisingly good for its age, but because it somehow has not provided any impetus for the genre to evolve in its direction.
And that makes me sad.
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