![]() Many segments of the game will certainly be familiar to veterans of the Metroid series, but the whole thing comes together quite differently from the original, and features a number of brand new areas and a completely new chapter at the end of the story. Nintendo's development team haven't taken the word "port" even remotely literally - and it would be fair to describe Metroid: Zero Mission as a re-imagining of Samus' first brush with the Metroids rather than as a GBA conversion of the old game. However, we can't help but approach Metroid: Zero Mission with a certain sense of trepidation, since despite the rose-tinted spectacles with which we tend to view the hard-suited lass' first venture beneath the crust of the planet Zebes, we couldn't help but feel that in light of more modern Metroid adventures, it might all feel a bit basic. Samus Aran never starred in anything particularly rubbish as a young lady, which is why (Metroid Prime-related career revivals aside) she remains such an enduring game character to this day. So then, here we are, with Samus' very first adventure - right from back when her curvy bits were rattling around inside that big suit (probably) - making the leap over to the Game Boy Advance. ![]() She's a Nintendo girl through and through, which essentially means that she's perfectly happy to dust down any two-bit game she starred in when she was young and needed the money as long as there's a quick buck to be made with a GBA re-release. Often, when the full light of international fame falls on a rising young starlet, they'll go to great lengths to cover up their earlier works. John Woo wants to make a movie with the power-suited vixen in it - and since so many videogames have spent the past decade stealing ideas unashamedly from the self-same Mr Woo, there can hardly be any higher praise than that. Aran has come on in leaps and bounds (often off the heads of frozen enemies) and is now probably one of the most bankable stars in videogames. From her beginnings in a 2D game which left her gender in doubt right until the very end, young Ms. Say what you like about Metroid Prime (we'd prefer that you say it was magnificent, but that's neither here nor there), there's no doubt that it's done wonders for the career of one Samus Aran.
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