This surely won't hurt sales for the game, because it really doesn't need multiplayer online. Needless to say, some fans will be disappointed as they expected to have this feature for the third installment.
Michael Kelbaugh, President and CEO of Retro Studios, gives us a final update on Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, as well as one bit of bad news: online multiplay will not appear.
17 New Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Screens GamePro: Will Metroid Prime 3 have any online modes?
Michael Kelbeugh:: No. It's something we talked about early on, but we only have so many resources. We opted to devote those resources to making a better single-player experience.
What are the biggest differences between Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and the previous two Metroid Prime games?
It's got to be the controls. The integration of the controls with the Wii controller is a phenomenal difference, and a dramatic improvement in the experience as a whole.
How difficult was it to figure out how the controls would work?
When we first saw the Wii controller, our game director Mark Pacini was really concerned about being able to take all the controls we used in Metroid Primes 1 and 2 - because, really, you use every single button in those games - and morph them into the Wii controller. So we spent a tremendous amount of time making that as seamless and as intuitive as possible. And I think we accomplished that. I think we did a really good job , so that you can pick the Remote and Nunchuk up and not be intimidated.
The game has three different control schemes, which are essentially three different sensitivity settings. What was the thinking behind including all three instead of just doing one?
The whole idea behind the controls in Corruption is to make them accessible to any Wii player, whether it's your 8-year-old daughter or your 80-year-old grandmother. So having the different settings gives us the flexibility to accomplish that, and also giving the player the opportunity to modify their control settings as they get further into the game helped us reach that goal as well.
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Here's hoping that the next Metroid after Corruption is multiplayer-focused.
Offline Campaigns can only do so much.
Personally, I would rather have an in depth, polished, and memorable single player adventure that I enjoy playing multiple times than a crappy multiplayer where I can go around and shoot people over the internet over and over and over again.
Anyway, this doesn't bother me. Not much, anyway. As long as the story's good and the single-player mode sticks to its explorer-action-horror roots, it will be magical. MAGICAL. The 3D MP games are Metroid's equivalent of 3D Zelda games (with Hunters being the disappointing exception), and they make me feel like no other game can. Immersive environment, secrets and surprises behind every door and down every hallway... This is the kind of game Metroid was meant to be from the beginning, but its full potential could only be unleashed in the form of 3d masterpieces we have today. And here we have it, and it is majestic. Perhaps beyond majestic.