Video: Check Out Some Intriguing Metroid Prime: Federation Force Footage

I, for one, am seriously looking forward to this game. Those stealth sections look pretty cool, and I'm very interested to see how Metroid Prime could work in a co-op setting.

I'm also seriously looking forward to this game!

I still think its pretty impressive that Federation Force managed to look worse than Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GeoRC71BI&ab_channel=supadude5000

Less detailed models, environments, textures...its baffling.

I've had this game on pre-order for 3 months now. No regrets at all

Still on the fence. Mechanic-wise, I can't see it as anything but a sub-par shooter (why they'd preserve the core mechanics as they were in Prime for such a game I have no idea). Being an ugly-looking 3DS title doesn't help either.

Still, there might be some redeeming value if it anticipates plot points from a hypothetical Prime 4, or if it offers good lore about the Metroid universe in general. Although, given what we've seen so far in terms of structure an writing, I seriously doubt it. I'll try it before buying.

Still looking forward to this game

What is going on with the size of their heads when they leave the mechs. Do they all have massive afros under those helmets that they don't want to flatten out.

@Einherjar The style is simply different. You shouldn't compare them, both look great.

It's the same as people talking bad about the "chibi" (big heads, small body) aspect of the caracters, it's a different style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZqWTqnFmA

Looking good

Looks like a solid game all round. Don't know why people are still whining about it. Count me in.👍🏻

So this metroid will be a lot about male protagonists and balls, huh?

Kidding aside, I'm looking forward to that game. I still think they shouldn't have put 'Metroid' in the title. A backfired marketing move.

@Olmectron Im not talking about the artstyle here. Im well aware that Federation Force did not go for a realistic approach.

But just look at the boss video. The texture work is simply awful and the boss model is as simply as it could possibly be without becoming a plain square.

But more interestingly, if you compare it directly to the stealth video, which almost looks like a different game.

Like i said, not comparing artstyles here, just technicalities. And i find it baffling that the vastly inferior DS could pull of a much more visually pleasing games than its 3DS brother.

Im just pointing out that it looks astonishingly cheap from a technical standpoint. And there are plenty of games out there that serve as proof that the 3DS is capable of much more.

The game seems to have a lot of balls.

To be honest, Blastball has put me off a bit. I'll still be getting it day one though.

First video looks pretty boring, but the rest look like fun. That giant boss fight in the third video is giving me Onslaught vibes. I miss playing that game so much, so I'm hoping this will fill that void for me.

Ffffffffunk this shooting balls game!!

If it were mostly 3rd person I'd be happy to give it a shot. Not a massive fan of first person games in general (disorienting for me, I get easily lost), and especially not a small screen

Blast Ball is way over hyped by Nintendo. It should've just been a regular minigame rather than its own game. (Metroid is not about robot soccer/football!)

Graphically the game does not look that good, but the premise of the game and the overall feeling I get from the videos is really promising.

Very much waiting for this game to come, Blast Ball is a very good little game especially with N3DS controls.

@LegendOfPokemon How about Metroid Pinball.

This is a strange FPS (first-person pinball) game. Good mindless fun, I like!

I'm feeling better about Federation Force after the Blast Ball demo. While I don't like Blast Ball itself, from the training tutorial the core game promises to be good.

I just... I just want a proper Metroid game! There's nothing wrong with spin-offs, but you still need to make main-series games!

Blast Ball was awful, I continue (even more now) have zero interest in yet another Nintendo game. I like this studio, they made the entertaining Mario Strikers games so all of it has been a disappointment to me.

Blastball has put me off as well. I'll still pick it up, else risking Nintendo mistaking bad sales for no interest in the series at all.

does this have online co-op?

@joealejos I'm pretty sure they said it would have online co-op, as well as local play and Single player.

It seems ok but not gonna buy it. Too many other games that i already have and want to have that interest me a lot more.

Haters gonna hate but I think this sounds cool

@Einherjar Keep in mind this game was originally conceived as a DS title before it got shelved and moved over to 3DS

The demo turned me off from this game even more.

@Olmectron
Style should never used as an excuse for awful graphics.

@StuOhQ
Buying it could also have the inverse, where they'll think it's okay relegate Metroid to low budget, ugly as sin games.

@AVahne People should skip playing all those Sonic/Sega compilation games. Even MegaMan Anniversary. The graphics are completely awful...

Come on! As long as a game is funny, what's the point of arguing? I liked the Blast Ball demo, it plays great, controls work really well. So, what's wrong?

One could say the graphics in Shovel Knight are the worst! The 3DS is capable of much much more! They should have released it for the NES, where it would truly be a good game because of using the best NES graphics! So?

@Olmectro None of those games are new. You just said it yourself, they're COMPILATIONS of retro classics, so your counter argument doesn't really make any sense.

As for Shovel Knight, it's actually meant to look retro. That was a stylistic choice, just like how they've gone with chibi characters in fed force, so both your arguments are invalid.

There is nothing wrong with with thinking that this game is good regardless of other people's opinions, but man, both your counter arguments started crumbling right out of the gate.

@Olmectron You're comparing apples to oranges here my friend.
Among 8bit sprite games, Shovel Knight is among the best visually. And i hope that i don't need to mention that your comparison to a compilation of actual NES games is pretty lame.

A bad 8bit NES game, off the top of my head, would be something like Super Pitfall. Heck, even the Castlevania series has some b*tt ugly tilesets !

No one is complaining about the game, only about its technicalities. The models for instance, even though they went for a more-or-less SD look, there is no reason to keep them at such a low poly and detail level.
Look at Monster Hunter, which is an ample example that the 3DS is able to manage high detail models in 4 player online multiplayer without issues.

The main issue here is not that it looks bad, but that it looks cheap and, just looking at the bossfight video again, almost unfinished.

Compare it to, lets say Final Fantasy Explorers or Monster Hunter Adventures. Both went for a chibi, SD look and look way more polished and finished.

For an IP with such a high profile, monochrome texturing really sticks out like a sore thumb, especially so late in the consoles lifespan.

Again, i can't stress this enough, its not about the style they took, its not about how fun the game might be, its just that they chose to name a game that looks like an amateur eShop game pretty much at the end of the 3DS lifespan "Metroid" after starving fans of the series out for years.
It was bound to raise some eyebrows that way, especially since the series was known to push a system.

After playing a bit of Blast Ball, I retract some of the initial hate I had for this game. With the trailers shown, I am especially interested in the sections where you eject from the mech-suit.

It won't win in the graphics-department, that's for sure. But it still could be fun!

Here comes another starfox zero. Just give fans what they want nintendo, or they'll go away.

The game is gonna flop. Too many people absolutely hate the game on principle, and too many people are on the fence, waiting to see what others think.

Very few are sold on the game, and many are going with low expectations to give it a chance. Unless the game is fantastic to play, the undecided won't bite.

The casuals are gone nintendo, they're alk playing pokemon go! Get over it already!