Metroid Prime Federation Force - Single-player, Metroids, Samus and more
While Metroid Prime Federation Force is actively getting destroyed on Nintendo’s YouTube channel, tons of new details have been revealed on the game. Get the info roundup below, which includes a single-player campaign, missions with Metroids and more.
- Use the second stick on the New 3DS to look around
- Game also runs on the regular 3DS
- Blast Ball could serve as a replacement for a traditional tutorial
- Concept for the game has been floating around for 10 years now
- Single player mode
- No four against four player matches
- Co-op four player mode where you fight as a team against space pirates
- Three major planets
- Roughly 10 different missions on each planet
- Areas for you to look around and explore
- No visor scanning
- A mission involves Metroids
- Samus will make an appearance
- Move around in mechs that are outfitted before each mission
- Choose to be more of a “healer” by equipping repair capsules
- Arm yourself with super missiles
- Game is overseen by Nintendo’s Yoshihito Ikebata and Ryuichi Nakada
- 4-player co-op first-person shooter set in the Metroid Prime universe
- Local and online muliplayer
- Requires 4-player squads to complete different kinds of missions
- Missions have different objectives (for example; trying to capture certain kinds of creatures)
- Missions start with briefings
- Select different kinds of items and weapons to take into combat with you
- This includes Repair Capsules to Shield Generators to Missiles to Slow Beams
- Music done in-house at NLG, along with Kenji Yamamoto.
Metroid Prime: Federation Force Blast Ball
- Includes Blast Ball, which is a 3-on-3 sci-fi sport mode
- Shoot a ball into the opponent’s goal to score
- Gain a competitive edge by collecting and using a variety of individual power-ups, such as barriers
- Match ends when a team scores three goals
- Send the Blast Ball game for free to other Nintendo 3DS owners via Nintendo 3DS Download Play
- Being hit with the ball will damage your suit
- Take too much damage and you’ll have to wait to respawn
- Movement is mapped to the Circle Pad, ‘B’ jumps and ‘A’ fires your cannon, either in rapid bursts or a charged shot
- Holding down ‘R’ allows you to strafe with the Circle Pad or fine-tune your aim with the gyroscope
- Holding ‘L’ locks onto the ball
- While locked on to the ball, your mech’s lateral movement is much slower
- C-stick on the New 3DS demo units wasn’t used in the E3.
Source: NeoGAF
