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Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Reviewed - Nintendo Power

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-WindYoshi-

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10/10 (Nintendo Power)

Kind of surprising given the fact that not even TP scored that high with them...

*plea to mods*
please change title of thread to "Official Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Reviews Thread" if you wouldn't mind. Thanks.
 
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Tristam

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Linkhero1 said:
there are other metroid threads, why couldn't you post this in one of them?

edit: it's been posted in them already :p
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Just turn it into an "Official Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Reviews Thread."

Ah well. The last game to get a 10 in NP was Resident Evil 4. Hopefully Corruption is just as amazing.

Opus Angelorum said:
Having never read Nintendo Power, is a 10 unexpected based on their history of scoring?
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The last perfect scores I can recall them dishing out were for Resident Evil 4 and the original Metroid Prime. I'm sure there are others, because I doubt they've given less tens than, say, EDGE.
 
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sk3tch

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Thanks for posting this outside of the "other" Metroid threads - otherwise I would have missed this.

10/10...still won't buy it.
 
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dkeane

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Cool, Nintendo Power has been good at scoring games. Just want to get this games in my hands, spoilers will start popping up everywhere.
 
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Mamesj

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cool, but like the Play review of Heavenly Sword, I want to see what other outlets say before I start getting too hyped.

Not that it makes a difference because I'm getting it day 1 regardless.
 
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Oblivion

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Damn. Nintendo Power didn't even give OoT a 10 (one of the few that didn't, interestingly enough).
 
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TekunoRobby

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I'm buying it regardless and I'm pretty optimistic it'll be an awesome game but come on, Nintendo Power? It's like asking OXM what they think of Halo 3.
 
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Firestorm

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Oblivion said:
Damn. Nintendo Power didn't even give OoT a 10 (one of the few that didn't, interestingly enough).
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The review system they used back then, between 2001 and 2005, and now are completely different. If they used the current review system, OoT would have got a 10 as well. In the 2 year history of this system, only RE4 and MP3 have received 10s.

NP is much less biased now btw, so it's a good score.
 
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TekunoRobby

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Firestorm said:
The review system they used back then, between 2001 and 2005, and now are completely different. If they used the current review system, OoT would have got a 10 as well. In the 2 year history of this system, only RE4 and MP3 have received 10s.

NP is much less biased now btw, so it's a good score.
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Well, that's good to hear. It's great to see them so hesitant to hand out 10's considering they're an official mag and all. I guess it speaks for the game's quality.
 
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thefro

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PleoMax said:
It's not like they had any chance to give it again since it....not matter how they wanted, there were no games.
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Twilight Princess got 3 10s from EGM, but Nintendo Power didn't give it one.
 
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Tristam

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PleoMax said:
It's not like they had any chance to give it again since it....not matter how they wanted, there were no games.
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Eh? As much as I disliked Twilight Princess, it was fair game for a perfect score. It received plenty of tens from other media outlets.
 
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Weisheit

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PleoMax said:
It's not like they had any chance to give it again since it....not matter how they wanted, there were no games.
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Is this all you do on these boards?
 
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Firestorm

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Oh, and the system OoT was under worked like this: 5 categories or something. All the scores for each category are averaged. Then they do this with like 5 reviewers and average it out. OoT got around 9.7 I believe? It was pretty much impossible for a game to get a perfect score.

Then they moved to the 5 star system where basically every game was perfect.

Now they're at this system.
 
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SabinFigaro

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In the last year or two, the scores that I have heard from Nintendo Power have been surprisingly unbiased. They seem to have gotten their act together, and no longer pander to mindless hyping anymore; thus, I view this score as a good indication of MP3's amazing potential.
 
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Tristam

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bud said:
what did they give to the previous prime games?
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Metroid Prime: 10
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: 9.8

Prime's average is 96.3% on GameRankings and 97 on Metacritic; Echoes' average is 92.2% on GameRankings and 92 on Metacritic, so the scores for either are above the mean. I think the same can be expected for Corruption, unless every media outlet judges it a perfect game. :p
 
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TekunoRobby

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krypt0nian said:
I will buy this but I will not be telling Anihawk.
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I will be sending him a private PM informing him of my ingenious Metroid Prime 3 purchasing decision once I've acquired it.
 
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-WindYoshi-

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Linkhero1 said:
there are other metroid threads, why couldn't you post this in one of them?

edit: it's been posted in them already :p
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Even so, I think this news is deserving of it's own thread considering the significance of a first review. People seem to be interested and it informs those who don't frequent the other thread/s.
 
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Tristam

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UncleGuito said:
:lol

K.

Still not a fan of the series. I tried the first one after I saw the great reviews and hated it.
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So did many others due to preconceived notions about how Metroid should play. I don't think System Shock had such a large following and BioShock's changes to the series formula isn't being frowned upon by any circles (as far as I can tell). But the reviews rolling in for BioShock are extremely similar in score and in comments to those for the original Metroid Prime.
 
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