10.31.07

Hands-On with Earl Double Feature

Posted in Hands-On with Earl at 12:03 pm by earl

Yes! It’s True! I have not one, but two games on Hands-On with Earl today. And heeerrrrreee we go. We’ll start with Metroid Prime 3:Corruption. After giving Gamespot my Drvier’s License, I was able to play the first few moments of Metroid Prime 3:Corruption on the Wii. It starts out with a pretty cool story, where you, Samus, are being called in to help out the Federation with the evil Dark Samus. You had control over your ships devices, and had to use them to land. You basically point, tap A on the device, and Samus will push it. You also had to type ina certain code and send messages using the motion sensing, which felt nice, although a little sensitive at times. You then on board the ship where you basically fire with A and aimed with the Wiimote. You could change visors by holding down - and tilting into the certain zone of that selected visor. Pretty simple. I would recommend it to any FPS fan that owns a Wii trhat’s looking for something unique.

I then dropped by Target and gave Heavenly Sword a spin. After a cutscene I skipped, I made Nariko jump onto a rope where it came into an interactive cutscene. The soldiers on the other side cut your rope, but once I got to the other side I taught them a lesson. The combat felt a little loose and repetitive, but once I tilted the controller to the side when finshing off a baddy, she went into a mini-cutscene where she pulled an awesome finsihing move. I did this several times and then went on to the end of the demo. Overall, a pretty strong game for the PS3.

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