Metroid Fusion
Metroid Fusion is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that combines exploration, combat, and progression within a structured environment. Players navigate distinct sectors, acquire new abilities, and unlock…
Metroid Fusion is an adventure developed by Nintendo R&D1, released 17 November 2002 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 3.5 hrs to finish.
What Metroid Fusion is
Metroid Fusion is an adventure game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in 2002. It was published by iQue. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins with Samus Aran acting as a bodyguard for the Biologic's research team on planet SR388. Eventually, a Hornoad confronts them and is killed by Samus. However, a globular yellow organism (an X) emerges from the Hornoad as it is destroyed and enters Samus's body. Feeling no initial effects, Samus continues escorting the researchers and completes the assignment. On the way back to the laboratory, however, Samus loses consciousness, and her gunship crashes into an asteroid belt. The ship's emergency systems automatically ejected Samus' escape pod, saving her from the crash, but her gunship is completely destroyed. Samus is quickly attended to by a medical crew, who discover that…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Metroid series
Metroid Fusion is the seventh of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. It arrived 12 months after Super Smash Bros. Melee. The next entry was Metroid Prime in 2002. Its critic score of 85 is 3 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.
How it was received
Metroid Fusion holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 315 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6.1 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Metroid Fusion launched on 17 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Gothic II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Gothic II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metroid Fusion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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