Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
An exploration-driven 3D metroidvania/first-person shooter hybrid and sequel to Metroid Prime (2002) in which Samus lands on Aether, an intricate planet torn into light and dark versions of itself, to help its…
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is an adventure developed by Retro Studios, released 15 November 2004 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 12.8 hrs to finish.
What Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is an adventure game developed by Retro Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It runs on RUDE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The bounty hunter Samus Aran is dispatched to the planet Aether after the Galactic Federation loses contact with a squad of Marines stationed there. She arrives to find the troops slaughtered and soon learns of a devastating conflict: decades earlier, a meteor split Aether into two mirrored dimensions, spawning a malevolent shapeshifting race called the Ing who wage war on the peaceful, near-extinct Luminoth. Enlisted by the last Luminoth sentinel to recover the planet's stolen light energy, Samus must journey between the world of light and its poisonous dark counterpart, battling the Ing, Space Pirates, and a mysterious doppelganger known as Dark Samus.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Metroid series
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is the 16th of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. The next entry was Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt in 2004. Its critic score of 80 is 2 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.
How it was received
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 194 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 82.5 hrs, roughly 6.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes launched on 15 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords.
Cheats and codes
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