Metroid: Zero Mission
The full story of Samus Aran's first mission finally unfolds... The first Metroid game just scratched the surface of the cataclysmic events on planet Zebes, and at long last the rest of the tale has come to…
Metroid: Zero Mission is an adventure developed by Nintendo R&D1, released 9 February 2004 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 2.4 hrs to finish.
What Metroid: Zero Mission is
Metroid: Zero Mission is an adventure game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in 2004. It was published by iQue. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Metroid: Zero Mission is a 2004 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is a remake of the original Metroid (1986), with updated visuals and gameplay.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Metroid series
Metroid: Zero Mission is the 14th of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. The next entry was Classic NES Series: Metroid in 2004. Its critic score of 95 is 13 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.
How it was received
Metroid: Zero Mission holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 295 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.4 hrs.
What it launched against
Metroid: Zero Mission launched on 9 February 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version and Onimusha 3: Demon Siege. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metroid: Zero Mission yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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