Metroid: Other M is set and ready for its August 31 launch. With so many gameplay styles and cinematic cut scenes in the game, what can longtime fans of the series, new players, and action-adventure gamers expect from Samus Aran's latest adventure?

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GamerSyndrome gets some hands-on time with the full playable demo for Metroid: Other M. How does the game control? How does the game play? Do the cut-scenes add or take away from the lore of the franchise? Lastly, what does Samus's speech do for the game?

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"From the demo we played last week, Team Ninja co-developed Metroid: Other M is definitely a culture shock for fans.

Start button pressed and the demo kicks off with the most gorgeous FMV sequence yet seen in a Nintendo game. It's pure Metroid fan porn: the visually stunning video details the final moments of Super Metroid, with our hero Samus Aran taking on the gigantic mother brain in a glorious fight to the death, leading to the destruction of the planet Zebes and the death of sole remai..."

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"[There] is an additional scene that sees Samus seemingly snooping in a Galactic Federation lab and accessing a screen that says “Living Body Arms Development,” which would imply organic weaponry. Now if you’ll recall, that was a major story crux in Fusion, that the Galactic Federation was in fact working on a program to mass produce and rapidly grow metroids for weapons use. That screen also reads “Attestation Success,” from which one could also infer that whatever the Federation has been wor..."

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