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During the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015, a new game in the series, ''Metroid Prime: Federation Force'', was announced for the Nintendo 3DS and is a spin-off of the Metroid Prime series, with a 2016 release. The game is a co-op first person shooter, where the player assumes the role of a Galactic Federation Marine, featuring gameplay elements similar to that of Metroid Prime Hunters. Much like ''Other M'' before it, the game was met with a highly polarized reception for its graphical style, heavily reduced focus on Samus, focus on FPS combat over exploration, and its overall departure from the series' general style. Further criticism was aimed at the fact that the first ''Metroid'' game announced after the franchise's 5-year hiatus was a spin-off title. | During the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015, a new game in the series, ''Metroid Prime: Federation Force'', was announced for the Nintendo 3DS and is a spin-off of the Metroid Prime series, with a 2016 release. The game is a co-op first person shooter, where the player assumes the role of a Galactic Federation Marine, featuring gameplay elements similar to that of Metroid Prime Hunters. Much like ''Other M'' before it, the game was met with a highly polarized reception for its graphical style, heavily reduced focus on Samus, focus on FPS combat over exploration, and its overall departure from the series' general style. Further criticism was aimed at the fact that the first ''Metroid'' game announced after the franchise's 5-year hiatus was a spin-off title. | ||
Overall, despite the controversial nature of its two latest games, the ''Metroid'' series is often held up as one of Nintendo's greatest classic franchises, particularly in the West | Overall, despite the controversial nature of its two latest games, the ''Metroid'' series is often held up as one of Nintendo's greatest classic franchises, particularly in the West; ''Super Metroid'' and the ''Metroid Prime'' trilogy in particular have garnered significant praise from fans and reviewers. The ''Metroid'' franchise maintains a dedicated fanbase, and Samus herself, while not garnering the same level of recognition as [[Mario]] or [[Link]], is widely praised as one of Nintendo's greatest and most iconic heroines and a groundbreaking example of proactive female protagonists in gaming. | ||
The ''Metroid'' series stars Samus Aran, a hardened, one-of-a-kind professional bounty hunter raised by a now-extinct race of bird-like humanoids named the Chozo and sporting a powered suit imbued with fantastic Chozo technology. With an arm-grafted cannon that can shoot a variety of projectiles seemingly without limit, and a suit function that affords Samus the seemingly superhuman ability to transform into a perfectly spherical metal ball that can self-navigate tight quarters, Samus is regularly called upon by the primary known sovereign government of the ''Metroid'' setting, the Galactic Federation, to go on infiltration missions into planets and compounds occupied by races of alien Space Pirates. The series' namesake is a floating, jellyfish-like lifeform called a Metroid, which has the seemingly supernatural ability to siphon life energy out of its victims; Space Pirates seek to breed and harness these creatures, so it is up to Samus, seemingly the only individual with the upgradeable weaponry capable of killing them, to explore Space Pirate-occupied worlds and destroy their operations down to the core. Each primary ''Metroid'' title adds to a chronology of canonical games, which is laid out below: | The ''Metroid'' series stars Samus Aran, a hardened, one-of-a-kind professional bounty hunter raised by a now-extinct race of bird-like humanoids named the Chozo and sporting a powered suit imbued with fantastic Chozo technology. With an arm-grafted cannon that can shoot a variety of projectiles seemingly without limit, and a suit function that affords Samus the seemingly superhuman ability to transform into a perfectly spherical metal ball that can self-navigate tight quarters, Samus is regularly called upon by the primary known sovereign government of the ''Metroid'' setting, the Galactic Federation, to go on infiltration missions into planets and compounds occupied by races of alien Space Pirates. The series' namesake is a floating, jellyfish-like lifeform called a Metroid, which has the seemingly supernatural ability to siphon life energy out of its victims; Space Pirates seek to breed and harness these creatures, so it is up to Samus, seemingly the only individual with the upgradeable weaponry capable of killing them, to explore Space Pirate-occupied worlds and destroy their operations down to the core. Each primary ''Metroid'' title adds to a chronology of canonical games, which is laid out below: | ||