Metroid Fusion for Game Boy Advance (GBA)

Pros: Metroids...sweet
Cons: Metroids...pass the Depends

The Metroid franchise has undergone quite the renaissance these past couple of years. With the GameCube seeing the first 3D Metroid adventure in Metroid Prime (and its soon-to-be unveiled follow-up), and the Game Boy Advance seeing traditional 2D ...

Pros: Enough classic Metroid action to satisfy any rabid fan of the original games
Cons: Ends too quickly

One of the biggest trends in video games lately seems to be dredging up old franchises and breathing new life into them. Dormant franchises as old as Spy Hunter and Sinistar and as recent as Mortal Kombat have suddenly reemerged on current systems, with...

Pros: samus new suit, good graphics, unlocks original metroid when linked to prime
Cons: frustrating, linear desin, gets tedious

I bought Metroid Fusion a few months ago because I liked M etroid Pri ...

Pros: Graphics, gameplay are all great. Good difficulty level
Cons: A bit short, can't hear much without the use of Head phones.

Along with Mario and Zelda, the Metroid series has always been one of Nintendo’s best franchises of games. It has been separated from the likes of Zelda and Mario because of its mature science fiction-setting and tense atmosphere. Ever since the very ...

Pros: Classic Metroid action! Sharp graphics, fun.
Cons: Some frustrating moments, weak plot.

Quick Facts: Metroid Fusion, for Game Boy Advance. MSRP around $30 at the time of this writ ...

Pros: Classic Metroid Game play on a handheld.
Cons: Sometimes too easy. Teeny tiny screen hurts my eyes.

Super Metroid. Ah, two words, that when invoked, bring tears to many gamers eyes. Some shed tears of ...

Pros: It's Metroid, classic gameplay, excellent graphics & sound
Cons: somewhat unoriginal, some gameplay quirks, can be frustrating

I'm going to be harsh. It's hard not to be with this title, as being a Metroid sequel; it has a lot of hype to live up to. You've been warned.

Almost everyone should be aware of what Metroid Fusion is, but here's the banter anyway;...

Pros: Classic side scrolling, as opposed to FPS in Prime
Cons: Controls, game engine, difficulty fluctuates rapidly

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Metroid Fusion is the newest game in the long and storied history of Samus Aran, and the Metroids. Touted as the true sequel to Super Metroid, I find this game...

Pros: The gameplay, the story, the depth, and the replay value
Cons: Hard to see even in good light, marginal sound

I remember when I played Super Metroid. The tight controls, depth, and gameplay were head and shoulders above anything else of its time. I remember it like it was just a few months ago, because, well, it WAS a few months ago. I was playing the game to...

Pros: Same old-school gameplay with new moves, interesting storyline, as challenging as ever.
Cons: With the bathing suit ending hard to get, most gamers would just kill Samus instead.

It sucks to know that most of the good Game Boy Advance games are just rehashes of their Super Nintendo counter-parts with a few more features (i.e. Zelda, Contra, and every Mario game). This...

Pros: Good graphics, Atmospheric sound, easy to get into.
Cons: Over too quickly, perhaps too hard for some.

Metroid Fusion is finally upon us after such a long absence away and whom’s Samus’s last outing was the superbly playable Super Metroid on the SNES. Due to the relative failure of the Nintendo 64 and lack of universal support, Nintendo was wise...

Pros: graphics, gameplay, you name it
Cons: nothing really. Aiming can suck sometimes. Also it's a tad short

My GBA has been buzzing for the last couple of months. Not only have I been constantly playing Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance, mixed with some Advance Wars and my second helping of Golden Sun. Just a while back, I learned about...

Pros: Excellent graphics, atmospheric soundtrack, serious challenge, cool story.
Cons: A little hard to see on GBA at times, a bit short.

After an eight year hiatus Nintendo decided to bless the game playing public with not one but two ne ...

Pros: The game looks good and plays pretty well.
Cons: Everything that made the series unique is absent from the game.

I am really torn when it comes Metroid nowadays.  The last decent title in the series was the GBA remake of the original game and the first Metroid Prime.  Since then the series has been making the slow slide downhill into irrelevance, and as ...

Pros: Very similar to the SNES classic Super Metroid.
Cons: This Metroid seems a little more linear than before. Completed in under 5 hours.

The Metroid series started in 1986 on the 8-Bit NES system. There was no other game like this back when it came out. The gameplay relied solely on exploration and discovering the secrets of the planet Zebes. Perhaps it was the most difficult in the...