Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Rating: T for violence)

This was an excellent game! Unfortunately, this was the first Metroid Prime game I have played, as I am waiting for the Trilogy game for my birthday. But, anyway, this game has the best graphics you can ask for in a Wii game. But, graphics aside, the plot is incredible. If you are not already a fan of the Metroid series, then I highly recommend you become one.

You (Samus Aran, a bounty hunter armed with a Chozo Varia suit. OK, she's a girl. A highly trained combat-ready girl who can shoot a Space Pirate in the face and not worry about ruining her manicure. So, yeah...) start out in your ship, meetingwith the Galactic Federation fleet. When you arrive at the ship, you make your way to the control room(using the best first-person controls I've ever seen), where Admiral Dane is waiting for you. When you arrive, you and three other hunters (Rhundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor) are informed of a virus that has been injected into every Galactic AU (Aurora Unit, a genetic supercomputer that makes up the entire GF database), and that you must purge the AU's of the virus before it becomes permanent. But, in the middle of the briefing you are informed that the fleet is under attack by Space Pirates, and that they are headed for the planet Norion's home base, where the planetary defense system is. You are sent down to the planet to stop the Pirates. Once you arrive there, you are assigned the mission of rebooting the generators that power the Planet's Defense gun, the only weapon capable of taking out orbiting ships. After you do this (no easy task your first time through, I assure you) you head to the control room with the other hunters, and try to fire the gun at an incoming Phazon bomb. But, before you can do this, Dark Samus (apparently she comes about in the first Prime) bursts through the window and blasts all of you with a Phazon beam. Ouch. You (Samus) stagger to the gun and fire it, saving the planet. You then collapse, unconscious.
One month later, you wake up to find that the other Hunters were sent to go purge the Virus from the other AU's in the system, using the Phazon found in their bodies after the attack. Phazon, a new extremely powerful energy source, was incorporated into their suits to use against the new extremely powerful enemies sprouting up everywhere on these planets. Your suit has also been modified to use this Phazon. However, the hunters have since disappeared. You are now the Galactic Federation's only hope (go figure). You must go and find the other hunters, and purge the virus from the AU's. However, unbeknownst to Samus, the Phazon in her body is slowly spreading, and if it spreads too far, she will become fully corrupted. You must destroy this spreading Phazon...before it destroys you.

While this is a violent game, it is surprisingly not bloody at all. When you shoot an enemy, they fall to the ground and evaporate. Some of the enemies are slightly creepy (for the record, I only screamed twice when they popped up out of the ground), and some of the areas do cause a chill to run down your spine. This is due in part to the creepy music that plays throughout, and the dark atmosphere that makes up this game. However, your blaster is used more for problem-solving then blasting baddies. There are many slightly hard puzzles scattered throughout the game, making this more than just your average first-person shoot-em-up. Also, the moral of the game is good...in a way. Samus has to overcome the corruption in herself, when she could keep it and become fully evil. But she doesn't. However, the game makes it so that you HAVE to use the Phazon every once in while, or else suffer a painful and annoying death. I spent half the time yelling at the TV in frustration. But, in all, I think this game deserves a 5 out of 5 stars.