Europe to receive a superior version of Metroid Prime

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Nintendo of Europe has revealed that the PAL version of Metroid Prime will feature notable enhancements over the already released US version of the GameCube killer app. Unfortunately for us, thanks to these enhancements European GameCube owners will receive a more refined and difficult version of Metroid Prime.

Defeated enemies don't drop as many power-ups as the US version; less ammo and energy
Stronger enemies.
Damage when walking into acid or lava is more severe.
Just like previous Metroid games, the doors will take multiple missiles to open.
The Hint system has been toned down to not give away anything till about 15 minutes later than it actually would have originally.
Gamers can skip cut-scenes after they've played through once
Includes speech: English speech for the intro and voice output when scanning objects and adding them to the log. Also, a voice notifies players when doors are locked and unlocked and there is an added voice for the ending of the game

News source: GamersMark

Western Quake³ Features List

A full arsenal of weapons with historically correct design. Check the weapons page for more information.
A big variety of "western styled" maps and player models.
A realistic damage system with different locations (head, chest...) and increased falling damage.
New "Western styled" gametypes for more fun (like Bank Robbery, Duel...) and a single player (playable in cooperative multiplayer) with a story and missions with different goals.
A Money System implying equipment purchase with money from rewards.
Different character classes having different abilities.
New "easy-to-use" graphical User Interface and HUD.
Other small improvements for a better and funnier gameplay.

#1 pizzadude on 08 Mar 2003 - 20:20

Still PAL though, ie black borders and 17,5% slower than the NTSC version.

#2 zi0nx5 on 08 Mar 2003 - 21:14

JEALOUS! :disappoin

(1 reply) #3 PabUK on 08 Mar 2003 - 22:06

Is this a good thing or not? Being in the UK I have never played any version, so is it a positive or a negative thing in the view of those who played the original version?

#3.1 mAcOdIn on 09 Mar 2003 - 08:57

[neoquote=#3.0 by PabUK]Is this a good thing or not? Being in the UK I have never played any version, so is it a positive or a negative thing in the view of those who played the original version?[/neoquote] I'd say they are all positive things. MP was kinda easy in my opinion so I think you guys got some good enhancements there.

(3 replies) #4 fleoxrz on 09 Mar 2003 - 06:47

That's it nintendo, you're third in the console market, and you expect to gain any ground doing things like THIS to your fans?

#4.1 mAcOdIn on 09 Mar 2003 - 08:58

[neoquote=#4.0 by fleoxrz]That's it nintendo, you're third in the console market, and you expect to gain any ground doing things like THIS to your fans?

[/neoquote] Hey us in America have been getting tweaked games from Japan for a while now, it's just how stuff turns out. During a localization process they have time to tweak or add things that they couldn't do before launch in the home territory

#4.2 kairon on 09 Mar 2003 - 12:43

[/neoquote] I smell a PS2/Xbox fan here...Nintendo tweaks games as seen fit for the audience their released in, like Japanese game versions may be a little harder due to the serious gamers they got there, its just a fact of life. But this is a very good thing for Nintendo to do because it tempts the people in the UK who just imported the US Version to go out and buy a copy of the enhanced UK version.

#4.3 Homie on 09 Mar 2003 - 16:00

sony and ms do the same thing anyway, just its usualy not as noticable, or they add features like extra levels

#5 threetonesun on 09 Mar 2003 - 18:58

eh, there's nothing really new, just slightly tweaked. Plus, you guys had to wait for it for a long time.

#6 fubarshibby on 09 Mar 2003 - 22:11

dammit me wants me wants... but i'm in the US! so i can't gets...

#7 jago6498 on 10 Mar 2003 - 02:10

DAMN YOU UK!!! Speech in the US version would have been KICK ASS...DAMMIT!!! eh oh well...Metroid Prime 2 is supposed to be @ E3 this year, so hopefully when I (or if I see it) it will have speech in it...[i]crosses fingers[/i]

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