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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Ships

(Press Release)

VANCOUVER, BC, November 16, 2004 – You might be comfortable in the armour. You might wield the arm cannon with devastating precision. And you might even be a master at maneuvering the Morph Ball. Yet nothing you’ve encountered has prepared you for the edge-of-your-seat adventure of Metroid® Prime 2 Echoes, on sale November 17 exclusively for Nintendo GameCube™.

“Not only is this the most graphically beautiful and intellectually challenging Metroid adventure ever,” says Ron Bertram, Nintendo of Canada’s general manager, “but the game also, for the first time, lets up to four players compete to determine the best bounty hunter of all.”

Metroid Prime 2 Echoes, developed by Retro Studios, continues one of the most fabled franchises in interactive entertainment and is a sought-after title for the holidays. The first-person shooter chronicles the adventures of Samus Aran, the baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy, as she blasts her way through a planet that’s been split into light and dark halves.
The deep, single-player storyline begins as Samus finds herself trapped on a mysterious planet, populated by creatures of both light and darkness. She must bolster her suit’s power to battle enemies and solve puzzles, all while a hostile entity stalks her. Players explore the environment using new scanning equipment and new weapons that yield different results, depending on the type of enemy.

Players use the new Light Beam and Dark Beam, as well as staples of the Metroid arsenal like the Morph Ball, Grapple Beam and Missile Launcher.

In the game’s multiplayer mode, up to four players don metal suits to try to blast their opponents into oblivion. Jump and shoot to find special power-ups or roll away from a punishing attack.

The original Metroid® Prime was named the 2003 first-person action console action game of the year by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and “Game of the Year” by the International Game Developers Association, GameSpot.com, GameSpy.com, IGN Cube.com and Planet GameCube.com.

As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of Canada Ltd., based in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a leader and innovator in the $1 billion video game industry in Canada. Nintendo of Canada markets hardware and software for Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo GameCube™. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.9 billion video games and more than 170 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario™ and Donkey Kong® and launching popular culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. Nintendo is dedicated to the long-term development of the interactive entertainment industry, devoting its resources towards maximizing the latest technology to create the most innovative, interactive entertainment products in the world.