Nintendo has announced that Metroid
Prime 2 Echoes has shipped to retail across N. America.
Retro Studios, producers of
the wildly popular original Metroid Prime, take Samus Aran on a terrifying
journey.
Galactic Federation Trooper Squad Bravo is missing; their last
transmission-- a distress call from a rogue planet called Aether, located in the Dasha
region.
Enter legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran. Her mission: Locate the Federation
troopers and render assistance. But what begins as a search and rescue mission becomes an
intense, haunting sojourn to save a species from total genocide in a world caught in the
maelstrom between dimensions of light and darkness.
Light Aether is the domain of the
Luminoth, gentle beings with a unique and highly developed civilization. But when a great
cataclysm tore the fabric of space and time, the Ing Horde were unleashed from Dark Aether,
a dimensional echo of Light Aether. Now the Luminoth are under siege. The Ing send armies
into Light Aether, absorb its lands into the clutches of Dark Aether, and possess the
Luminoth's warriors. Only the Luminoth's four gigantic energy generators keep the Light
World from collapsing. If the Ing seize control of the generators, the Light World will be
extinguished forever. Samus embarks on her mission to defeat the Ing and restore peace to
Aether.
But, as Samus will soon learn, an ominous shadow lurks in the darkness, a
shadow which stealthily hunts the hunter...
Features
- New Beam Weapons: The
Dark Beam and the Light Beam wield powerful ordinance to crush the Ing, solve puzzles, and
open doors
- New Suits: As Samus traverses the depths of Light and Dark Aether she
can don powerful new suits to protect her against the planets myriad enemies.
- Screw
Attack: The famous attack from Metroid games of the past makes its triumphant debut on the
Nintendo GameCube
- Power Ups: The space jump and the grapple beam are just some of
the power-ups you'll find
- Multiplayer Metroid: For the first time in the history
of the franchise, up to four players can battle each other as they search for weapons,
grapple across ceilings and turn into Morph Balls to make their
escape.
