Metroid
It's you against the evil Mother Brain in the thrilling battle of Metroid! You're inside the fortress planet Zebes. The planet of endless secret passageways where the Metroid are multiplying. Left alone the…
Metroid is an adventure developed by Nintendo R&D1, released 1 August 1987 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii and Nintendo Entertainment System. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Metroid is
Metroid is an adventure game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in 1987. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii, Nintendo Entertainment System and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Metroid is a 1986 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The first installment in the Metroid series, it was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in August 1986. North America received a release in August 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with the European release following in January 1988. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve the predatory Metroid organisms that were stolen by Space Pirates, who plan to replicate the Metroids by exposing them to beta rays and then use them as biological weapons to destroy Samus and all who oppose them.
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 is the second of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. It arrived 12 months after Metroid. The next entry was Metroid II: Return of Samus in 1991. Its critic score of 60 is 22 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.
How it was received
Metroid holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Players rate it 66, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metroid yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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