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Of all the studios we would have guessed would try to take on the classic World War II multiplayer shooter arena and fill the gap left by Call Of Duty and Battlefield , the maker of Pneuma: Breath Of Life wasn’t high on the list. And yet that’s exactly what Bulkhead Interactive is doing. Battalion 1944 was backed on Kickstarter to the tune of £317,000 earlier in the year and has been in closed alpha, gradually building and improving even while the team was also getting The Turing Test out of the door. And it’s all because of the passion this team has for the genre. “Yeah, this is a business decision for us, but really when we sat…

“By working together, the unlikely pair must communicate with one another to overcome tremendous obstacles and uncover the secrets of their beautiful fantasy world”PRESS RELEASE SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT CONCEPT • As a blend of the puzzle gameplay of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus’s focus on magnificent beasts, this should be a unique and emotional journey. INFORMATION Details Format: PS4 Origin: Japan Publisher: Sony Developer: genDESIGN / In-house Release: 7 December 2016 Players: 1 Developer Profile Having attended the Osaka University of Arts, Fumito Ueda originally tried making it as an artist before turning to game design. His background shows through his work, although he has interestingly expressed interest in making an FPS once The Last Guardian is done. Developer History D, 1996 [Sat, PS1, PC] Enemy Zero, 1997 [Sat,…

“We cannot wait to launch our very first console game on Xbox One and offer players the ability to play on both Xbox One and Windows 10 via Xbox Play Anywhere”MICHAEL SCHADE, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF ROCKFISH GAMES CONCEPT • Everspace is a single-player 3D space shooter with rogue-like elements, currently in early access for PC and Game Preview on Xbox One. INFORMATION Format: Xbox One, PC Origin: Germany Publisher: Rockfish Games Developer: In-house Release: 2017 Players: 1 Developer Profile A new independent gaming studio based out of Hamburg, Germany, Rockfish Games has been set-up to create Unreal Engine 4 games that explore the vastness of space. The studio’s first game is set to be Everspace after a successful Kickstarter campaign was funded in 2015. Could Everspace be the next…

1 SECRET LEGEND Format: PC Publisher: Dicey Developer: In-house ETA: TBC 2017 Reminding us a little of 3D Dot Game Heroes, Secret Legend is a wonderful homage to classic Legend Of Zelda, reimagined through the prism of voxels, an isometric viewpoint, tilt shift camera and a small fox as a hero. The stylistic choices are really what set this game apart though as the sense of scale is sold with some gusto thanks to the blurred outer reaches of the screen in this game. It’s as if you’re peering down on the game world like a god, orchestrating events. So while there is plenty of whimsy to appreciate from the bright colours and cute designs, this larger viewpoint promises a world full of potential challenges. 2 DEAD CELLS Format:…

PUBLISHER: CCP | DEVELOPER: CCP Newcastle | ORIGIN: UK PRICE: £49.99 | PLAYERS: 1-16 | ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes | MOVE SUPPORT: No When you slip away, into the deepest of slumbers, where do you go? Are you bound by reality as we know it or do you take to the stars? Does your dreamscape contort into the shape of a Colonial Viper cockpit (Mark II, naturally), or perhaps to one of the gunnery positions on the Millennium Falcon – John Williams’ iconic score hitting a near constant crescendo as you twist and twirl through battle? If it does, you’ll love EVE: Valkyrie. You’ll love it enough to overlook its flaws – the relatively shallow gameplay and lack of objective drive to play – because it’s what every young wannabe pilot…

When I want to scare someone with VR I make them play thisDARRAN JONES, RETRO GAMER EDITOR PUBLISHER: Sony | DEVELOPER: Supermassive Games | ORIGIN: UK PRICE: £15.99 | PLAYERS: 1 | ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A | MOVE SUPPORT: Yes While we’re not entirely sure why the Until Dawn name has been slapped on this tongue-in-cheek on-rails (literally) shooter, it might have something to do with the PS4 horror surprise’s past. Supermassive Games was originally working with Move as a primary input device for Until Dawn when the game was first announced for PS3, later moving to traditional controller when it was shifted onto the current gen console instead. That experience is telling here, with individual gun aiming possible with twin Move wands to an extent far…

One of the chief complaints levelled at the Pokémon series by those who have burned out on the games is that the core mechanics and structure have changed little in 20 years. Ever since Red first left Pallet Town, the objective has been the same – raise a team of creatures with which to defeat eight increasingly tough Gym Leaders, followed by the region’s Elite Four and Pokémon League champion. It’s a formula that clearly works and one that has been cemented as how things are done in the world of Pokémon by close to 1,000 episodes of the anime series, but that does nothing to change the fact that the thrill of taking down the Elite Four simply isn’t what it once was. Pokémon’s main campaigns have become a…

VIOLENT, CATHARTIC AND MORALLY UNAMBIGUOUS, THIS IS A RAW VENDETTA FANTASY DETAILS FORMAT: PS4 OTHER FORMATS: Xbox One, PC PUBLISHER: 2K Games DEVELOPER: Hangar 13 PRICE: £49.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A Mafia III does not mince words. It’s bloody, it’s fast, it’s intoxicating and irresistible. In that spirit, it’s worth opening on a firm, frank point: Mafia III is the smartest and most original sandbox game in years. Assassin’s Creed, nowadays, is drowning in lore, features and endless side-missions. This year’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was cold and dry. Fallout 4 felt like business as usual. For the longest time, perhaps since Assassin’s Creed 2 – the wild success of which set a mould for open-world games – being able to explore at your…

THERE ARE A WHOLE LOAD OF THINGS TO DO IN COLOR SPLASH, BUT NONE OF THEM FEEL THAT ENTICING DETAILS FORMAT: Wii U ORIGIN: Japan PUBLISHER: Nintendo DEVELOPER: Intelligent Systems PRICE: £39.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A You know when you see a picture of the actor you used to fancy when you were at school? The one you had a huge, A3 poster of above your bed? And now they’re all haggard and saggy after 30 years of aging and substance abuse? Okay, the Paper Mario series isn’t exactly like that, but it’s maybe a little like that. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the GameCube is one of the best games of all time, and so it’s a shame to see the series go from…

THROUGHOUT ANACHRONOX THE music takes a bit of a backseat, as instead of beating you over the head with loud in-your-face themes, the selection of music in the game during exploration is understated and purely exists to add an extra layer of atmosphere and texture to the world. Featuring composers such as Will Nevins, Darren Walsh, Tony Diaz and Will Loconto, just like the visuals in the game itself, there’s a pretty vast array of different types of music within Anachronox. Each one nicely complements the locale in which it‘s featured, but undoubtedly the music that can be heard throughout the planet Anachoronox itself sets up the tone of the game - quirky, dense, mysterious and adventurous.…

METROID WANTED YOU TO TRULY BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE STRANDED ON A HOSTILE PLANET Released: 6 August 1986 Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo R&D1 System: NES, FAMICOM BY THE SPRING of 1986, one Japanese developer had already established itself as a titan of two genres. If there was an adventure or platforming game worth playing, you’d better believe it had the Nintendo Seal Of Quality etched on its box art. But after a string of commercial and critical successes with Donkey Kong, Ice Climber, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend Of Zelda, Nintendo set it sights on a new horizon entirely – that of the action genre. Metroid was the result. Forged in the bowels of Nintendo’s acclaimed Research & Development 1 division, Metroid was unlike anything the publisher had ever…

 The PlayStation 4 Pro is Sony’s answer to 4K gaming. A brand-new, powerful, system that’s set to support 4K, HDR and provide enhancements to PSVR, but many developers are still yet to confirm support. Just how difficult is it to get a game ready for 4K on console? “ I was amazed how good the game looked when we first got it working ” David Hensley, Killing Floor 2 Developers are scrambling. On 10 November, Sony is pushing the videogame industry into a new era. The company is launching the most powerful home console ever seen on the market; peddling fresh hardware that’s will not only provide a boost in performance to PlayStation VR, but will also offer enhanced fidelity across the library of games currently available on the PS4…

CONCEPT “Resident Evil VII embodies the series’ signature gameplay elements of exploration and tense atmosphere that first coined ‘survival horror’ some 20 years ago; meanwhile, a refresh of gameplay systems simultaneously propels the survival horror experience to the next level.”PRESS RELEASE, CAPCOM • A claustrophobic, first-person take on horror with a carefully restrictive visual style that is both effectively creepy and fully ready to work in VR. INFORMATION Details Format: PS4, PSVR, Xbox One, PC Origin: Japan Publisher: Capcom Developer: In-house Release: 24 January 2017 Players: 1 Developer Profile This may be Koushi Nakanishi’s first directorial role in a numbered Resident Evil sequel, but he’s not entirely new to the franchise. Credited as the creator of the Resident Evil: Revelations games, he may just be the best pick within…

“We’re really trying to create a new game that is part of this Dawn Of War lineage but is also its own game that speaks to audiences today”PHILIPPE BOULLE, GAME DIRECTOR CONCEPT • Dawn Of War III is a real-time strategy game based around the Warhammer 40K universe, once again focusing on the plight of the Space Marines against factions such as the Eldar and Orks. INFORMATION Details Format: PC Origin: Canada Publisher: Sega Developer: Relic Entertainment Release: 2017 Players: TBC Developer Profile Founded in 1997, Relic Entertainment has long been one of the best and brightest propagators of the real-time strategy genre. Constantly striving for innovation and delivering expertise across both historical and science-fiction videogames, the Relic name has become an authoritative seal of quality on any strategy PC…

Obviously the high-end PC is more powerful than the closed ecosystem of the PlayStation 4, but that said, the PS4 is a very capable piece of hardware This is what we’ve been waiting for. The promise of VR has been hovering around us for the last few years, teasing us with the possibility of a paradigm shift in the way we play games. But while most of our attention has been focused on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it turns out it’s actually PlayStation VR that may hold the key to unlocking virtual reality’s potential and breaking it into the mainstream. As Sony’s device finds a foothold in the world, we tested it extensively, played every launch game and sat down with key developers to see just how much of…

Hunting for all the Riddler trophies is where this game opens upJONATHAN GORDON, GAMES TM EDITOR Without question one of the coolest VR experiences availableJOSH WEST, GAMES› FEATURES EDITOR PUBLISHER: Warner Bros. | DEVELOPER: Rocksteady | ORIGIN: UK PRICE: £15.99 | PLAYERS: 1 | ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A | MOVE SUPPORT: Yes Batman: Arkham VR truly represents the very best and worst virtual reality has to offer – its promise and potential, the restrictions and subsequent resentment that soon follows. But as Rocksteady’s masterful creation so readily and ably demonstrates, VR can act as a gateway to another world; confidently blurring our understanding of what is real and what is not. It gifts us the opportunity to be swallowed into a life so far removed from our own…

Remember when you watched Tron and wished you could be in a videogame? That’s what playing Rez Infinite feels likeDARRAN JONES, RETRO GAMER EDITOR Playing Rez has never felt more natural than in VRJONATHAN GORDON, GAMES™ EDITOR PUBLISHER: Enhance Games | DEVELOPER: In-house | ORIGIN: Japan PRICE: £19.99 | PLAYERS: 1 | ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A | MOVE SUPPORT: Yes It feels like somewhat of a bad omen – or at least some kind of cruel joke – to see a new piece of technology launch with an updated version of a game that first released on the ill-fated Dreamcast – in a starring role no less. However, the dark clouds part the moment you hit the Touchpad button to activate VR Mode and become one with Rez. This has always…

One of the best showcases for the tech, and it’s free!LUKE ALBIGÉS, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PUBLISHER: Sony | DEVELOPER: In-house | ORIGIN: Multi PRICE: Free | PLAYERS: 1 | MOVE SUPPORT: No Just as The Playroom served as a decent demonstration of what the DualShock 4 and PlayStation Camera could do in tandem, this VR update – once again populated by those adorable little robots – is a showcase for what can be done when you throw a VR headset into that mix as well. While the original was a solo experience, the VR version is instead primarily multiplayer, offering a selection of rebuttals to the idea that putting on a headset immediately shuts off social play. A quaint little Crash-esque platformer and capsule toy diorama are…

YOOKA EDIBLE POWERS Yooka can eat berries in the game, each of which embues him with special abilties. These include: SPLASHBERRIES, which allow you to spit streams of water. FROSTBERRIES, which give you the ability to spit shards of ice. FLAMEBERRIES, which turn you into a dragon of sorts by spitting fire. CANONBALL, technically not a berry, but it turns Yooka into metal. CAMO CLOAK Allows Yooka to tap into his chameleon heritage, making him transparent for a short period of time, draining the power meter as a result. GRAPPLING TONGUE Allows Yooka to grab objects with his tongue and drag himself up to them. BUBBLE Known by fans as the fart bubble, this allows Yooka to breathe and walk underwater for a period of time. SONAR ‘SPLOSION Laylee can…

FORZA HORIZON 3’S AUSTRALIAN SPRAWL IS NOT SO MUCH INSPIRED BY LIFE DOWN UNDER AS IT IS TURBOCHARGED BY IT DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PC ORIGIN: UK PUBLISHER: Microsoft Studios DEVELOPER: Playground Games PRICE: £49.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1-4 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes In Forza Horizon 3 ’s opening moments, you’ll zoom a Lamborghini across picturesque hillsides, transition seamlessly to a pack of 4x4s hurtling along Byron Bay, before racing through the dense rainforest against a Jeep that’s dangling from the bottom of a helicopter. It’s a supremely confident introduction that epitomises Playground Games’ latest Forza spin-off; a game that’s not only the best iteration of an already excellent series, but one of the best open-world racers ever made. It’s an unexpected surprise – after…

DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PS4, PC, Mac ORIGIN: UK PUBLISHER: 505 Games DEVELOPER: Variable State PRICE: £6.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A The design of many a modern videogame owes a clear debt to cinema. But this often manifests itself in the most intrinsically uninteresting form imaginable. Just think about it, how often have you had camera control wrestled out of your hands – forced from active participant to a passive onlooker in a second? Those occasions where you’re made to stop shooting to watch the burning bones of a helicopter twist out of the sky and into a skyscraper; it’s a costly set-piece that the developer just couldn’t risk you missing. While a lot of triple-A games are content with mimicking this Michael Bay…

DETAILS FORMAT: PS4 OTHER FORMATS: Xbox One, PC ORIGIN: Japan PUBLISHER: Bandai Namco Entertainment DEVELOPER: In-house PRICE: £9.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes How do you follow up a game that’s universally beloved? A title that took a classic format and added just the right amount of new features to bring it feel both retro and relevant? Do you play it safe and risk being called complacent or do you take a chance and try something a little different? Bandai Namco was clearly in a gambling mood when it started work on the follow up to 2010’s Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and while its tweaks to the CEDX recipe won’t be to everyone’s taste, there’s definitely an addictive little arcade romp in there somewhere. Okay, so let’s…

So you’ve got your 4K TV and you’ve picked up a PlayStation 4 Pro, but what games will really show off all of your new technology? While a handful of 2016’s biggest releases, such as Watch Dogs 2 and Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare , will be patched for support, it’s these four we’ve been truly impressed with so far. KILLING FLOOR 2 Do you remember how much fun Left 4 Dead was? Killing Floor 2 is like that, but it’s bloodier and faster. Running in 4K, the game takes on a whole new dimension as Tripwire is able to make its enemies and environments look extra nasty – a welcomed distraction from the hundreds…

“I hate it when people play Galaga by just holding the button down, that is bullshit ” BRIAN BRIGHT, PROJECT DIRECTOR, INFINITY WARD “My favourite game of all time is Galaga . I love the patterns. It’s a very pattern-based game and you can just slip into this zen with it. With the firing and then the double fire and it’s awesome, but then sometimes you shoot your own ship and it’s just like arrrgh, god damn, I’ve just ruined it! But then you can fight back, right? Every 20,000 points and then every 70,000 and you get a free life and then you get the challenging stages and it’s like, shit, I can’t miss one! Though I hate it when people play…

“With open-world single player and competitive multiplayer, you will buy and use a host of weapons and tools to approach the many challenges of this beautiful little world”PRESS RELEASE, SMAC GAMES CONCEPT • Framed for a murder you didn’t commit in a world where people aren’t supposed to die, you must become the assassin people are accusing you of being to reveal your tormentor INFORMATION Details Format: PS4, Xbox One, PC Origin: UK Publisher: Mode 7 Developer: SMAC Games Release: Q1 2017 Players: TBC Developer Profile SMAC Games is the creative duo of Sean Wright and Maciek Strychalski. The stunning art of the game is handled by Strychalski, while Wright is the coder and programmer that makes sure that the design of the game actually contains some interesting gameplay and…

CONCEPT “I think one of our game designers said it best after Gamescom, ‘finally we’ve achieved unsustainable levels of hype ”OLA HOLMDAHL, TARSIER STUDIOS • You play as Six, a young girl trapped in The Maw, a grim and dank place full of menace. You’re task is to evade its threats and solve its puzzles to escape. INFORMATION Details Format: PS4, Xbox One, PC Origin: Sweden Publisher: Bandai Namco Developer: Tarsier Studios Release: Q2 2017 Players: 1 Developer Profile Founded in 2004, Tarsier has quietly been building a reputation for itself as a creative and imaginative studio, assisting Media Molecule on both the LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway titles with DLC and ports to new hardware. This will be its most high-profile solo release though. Developer History Desert Diner 2009 [PC]…

• One of the lesser-appreciated elements of using PlayStation VR is that it can enhance your experience of games you already own. By using the headset with non-VR titles, you can play in Cinema mode, creating a virtual cinema-scope screen in the headset. Playing titles through Cinema mode is like getting to play them on a gigantic TV. This mode also works for watching Blu-rays and streaming services like Netflix. It’s an extraordinarily immersive experience, although the resolution of the screens on the headset can make things look a little grainy. It’s worth trying out regardless.…

CABLES • As with all the VR headsets on the market at the moment, there are a lot of cables to navigate, but they're certainly not as heavy as the ones on the HTC Vive. Clearing some room for everything and occasionally untangling wires is going to be important though. CURTAINS • Since the headset isn’t strapped to your face it doesn’t really need foam padding to secure it tightly around your eyes. In its stead, Sony has a rubber curtain that blocks out light from above and from the sides. This is much more comfortable around the face. HEADBAND • What we’re calling the halo design of this headset is really its key design strength, putting all of the weight of the device around the top of your head.…

One of the most intense VR experience so farLUKE ALBIGÉS, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PUBLISHER: Drool | DEVELOPER: In-house | ORIGIN: UK PRICE: £15.99 | PLAYERS: 1 | ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A | MOVE SUPPORT: No Most rhythm-action games look to ease players in and ensure accessibility by offering easier charts and no-fail modes for those not ready to face Hard or Expert-tier difficulty levels. Thumper is not most rhythm-action games. It’s relentless, ruthless and uncompromising, its blistering pace, myriad hazards and undulating courses all deviously devised to punish anything less than perfect play. And as frustrating as that can be when the challenge ramps up as quickly as it does, the whole experience is just so intense and unique that you’ll recover from every audiovisual kick in the face with a masochistic…

A few cool ideas, but it should have been bundled inJOSH WEST, GAMES™ FEATURES EDITOR The low gravity jumps in Scavengers Odyssey are amazingJONATHAN GORDON, GAMES™ EDITOR PUBLISHER: Sony | DEVELOPER: London Studio | ORIGIN: UK PRICE: £29.99 | PLAYERS: 1 | ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A | MOVE SUPPORT: Yes Given that every headset already comes with a demo disc that offers a selection of different experiences to try, VR Worlds finds itself in a curious position. A disparate set of tech demos of varying quality, it’s a novelty selection box that would work really well as a permanent fixture in a PSVR demo unit (were it not for the fact that The London Heist has quite the mouth on it, at least) but that falls…

Shovel Knight was a hugely successful action-platformer inspired by the best 2D experiences of the late Eighties and early Nineties. Since its release in 2014, he’s been popping up in a bunch of like-minded (and some not-so-obvious) games that also appear to be harking back to a different age. Here’s Shovel Knight’s latest gameography. RUNBOW The 2D platform racing game exclusive on the Wii U includes Shovel Knight as one of a number of guest stars added into the game. More characters from various indie titles, many of which aren’t even on Wii U, were announced through 2015. AZURE STRIKER GUNVOLT 2 Another appearance for the Knight on an exclusive Nintendo title. This appearance came about through the use of a Shovel Knight amiibo and the fact that his creator,…

THE COALITION WAS GOING TO DO IT RIGHT BEFORE IT DID THINGS DIFFERENTLY DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PC ORIGIN: Canada PUBLISHER: Microsoft Game Studios DEVELOPER: The Coalition PRICE: £49.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1-8 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes In the months leading to the release of Gears Of War 4 , long-serving producer and studio head Rod Fergusson was confident – defiant, almost – that the team he had assembled under The Coalition was prepared to bring such an integral Xbox-exclusive franchise into the next generation. The old guards of Gears have gone, moved on to pastures new, but there stands Fergusson – as he has done so faithfully for a decade – peddling a familiar miasma of despair and destruction; a patchwork of blood and…

DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, PC ORIGIN: USA PUBLISHER: EA Sports DEVELOPER: EA Canada PRICE: £49.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1-12 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes Success leads to complacency that in turn breeds contempt – that’s the inherent problem with a development cycle that favours speed over finesse. With a resurgent rival in the form of Pro Evolution Soccer, EA had to return to the pitch in 2017 fresh and vibrant, innovating in a handful of key areas. FIFA 17 is, then, EA’s attempt to build a sports simulation that covers every eventuality of play. There is, in actuality, so much content packed away inside of it that it’s almost unreasonable to consider that any one player will ever get to see it all. Between FIFA’s…

DETAILS FORMAT: PS4 OTHER FORMATS: Xbox One ORIGIN: US PUBLISHER: Activision DEVELOPER: Bungie PRICE: £24.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1-12 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes You can’t help but admire the Exotic legs on Destiny . For a game that was slammed at launch for how little content there was compared to what had been shown off in the run-up to release, Bungie’s ridiculously tight core systems have kept numbers healthy and ensured huge spikes in new and returning Guardians with every single content drop. Few shooters can boast living into their third year with a sizeable chunk of their player base intact – arguably only Battlefield 4 this generation, aside from Destiny – and while this latest update doesn’t make such bold strides as The Taken King, that’s…

“I think the pacing of Ocarina Of Time is unparalleled ” JACOB MINKOFF, DESIGN DIRECTOR, INFINITY WARD “Ocarina Of Time , man. That game is freaking amazing. You want to talk about excellence in a wide arena and linear spaces, then it has to be The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time . It gives you this huge open world and then narrows you down into these incredibly, carefully crafted dungeons where every single space means something. Every single icon is clear, you know when you’re looking at something that you’re going to be able to do something with it later —you don’t know what it is or what you will use it for, but you just know you’re going to remember it. And…

1. SUPER METROID • Even when you are moving backwards in Super Metroid – cautiously revisiting old areas and investigating new mysteries – you’re always moving forwards. This is where Nintendo perfected the mechanics, systems and level design first deployed in Metroid, with a game that built on the past while successfully innovating for the future. There’s a reason Super Metroid is often lauded as one of the greatest games of all time, and that’s because it’s near-enough perfect. 2. METROID PRIME • The first Metroid game to be released in eight years and arriving just a year after the debut of Halo: Combat Evolved, fans were naturally wary of Retro Studios taking Samus into first-person. Thankfully, Metroid Prime surpassed all expectations and became a modern classic. Not only did…