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|genre=First-person action-adventure |modes=Single-player }} ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the 9th game in the ''Metroid'' series, and the final entry in the ''Metroid Prime'' trilogy—excluding two spin-off titles. It was released in North America and Europe in 2007, and in Japan the following year. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk devices are featured in a new control scheme that took a year to develop and caused the game's release to be delayed several times. The story of ''Corruption'' is set six months after the events of ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', and follows bounty hunter Samus Aran as she assists the Galactic Federation in its fight against the Space Pirates. While fending off a Space Pirate assault, Samus and her fellow bounty hunters are attacked by her doppelgänger, Dark Samus, who incapacitates them with a mutagenic material called Phazon. After losing contact with the other hunters, the Federation sends Samus on a mission to determine what happened to them. During the course of the game, Samus works to prevent the Phazon from spreading from planet to planet while being slowly corrupted by the Phazon herself. The game was first shown to the public at the E3 2005 trade show. Reception to ''Corruption'' has been very positive, with several reviews specifically praising the gameplay. More than one million copies of the game were sold in 2007. It was re-released as part of ''Metroid Prime: Trilogy'', a Wii compilation of the three main games of the ''Prime'' series with Wii Remote controls. == Gameplay == ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' is a first-person action-adventure game. The player controls the protagonist, Samus Aran, using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk devices. The Nunchuk enables the player to perform actions such as moving Samus and locking on to enemies and targets. The Wii Remote allows the player to execute actions such as jumping, aiming, and firing weapons. ''Corruption'' is a large, open-ended game that takes place across several planets, each with regions connected by elevators, rail systems, and bridges. Each region has rooms separated by doors that can be opened when shot with the correct weapon. The gameplay revolves around solving puzzles to uncover secrets, jumping on platforms, and shooting enemies with the help of a "lock-on" mechanism that allows Samus to move in a circle while staying aimed on an enemy. The game uses a first-person view, except in Morph Ball mode, in which Samus's suit transforms into an armored ball and the game uses a third-person camera.〔 The third person camera is also used in conjunction with the Screw Attack power-up: in this case Samus's suit emits strange energy waves as she performs a continuous jump. The game's heads-up display simulates the inside of Samus's helmet, and features a radar, map, ammunition gauge, and when engaged with a boss, its health meter and name. Samus's own health meter is represented by a blue bar at the top of the screen which is referred to as energy. The energy meter, in addition to visualizing how much energy is left, also displays a number to the left indicating how much energy remains. Samus begins the game with a mere 99 energy units. As the game progresses, the player can collect energy tanks. These permanent upgrades will increase Samus's maximum energy by 100 units as well as replenish any expended energy upon pickup. Each energy tank that is added will appear as a square above Samus's energy meter: a solid square will indicate a full energy tank while a hollow square will indicate an empty one. Samus's energy meter will reflect how much energy her current tank has left. A game over screen will appear should Samus's energy tanks be fully emptied and her energy dropped to zero. The player can change visors to enable new abilities such as X-ray vision, or can switch to the Scan Visor, collecting information on many items, creatures and enemies, and interfacing with certain mechanisms such as force fields and elevators. ''Corruption'' also includes a hint system that periodically displays on-screen instructions and navigation assistance.〔 The game also has the addition of the hypermode, an early-game upgrade in which one of her full energy tanks' contents are converted from energy into phazon with her suit's PED (phazon enhancement device). Upon using the PED, the words "ENERGY TANK INJECTED" appear to indicate that hypermode has been engaged. During this time, the energy meter turns from blue to white and becomes much larger and more visible, accompanied by a special visual filter which turns Samus's vision black and white. Any source of phazon, however, will still appear blue. The PED uses this phazon to give Samus temporary invulnerability, and grants her attacks that are vastly more powerful than what she is normally capable of. These attacks drain the phazon tank fairly quickly, and draining the tank completely will take Samus out of hypermode. The player can cancel hypermode at any time, recycling the unused phazon back into energy. After remaining in hypermode for 30 seconds, a fail-safe will vent all of the remaining phazon, canceling hypermode. Later on in the game, as Samus becomes more corrupted with phazon, an anomaly appears in her suit's PED. From this point forward, remaining in hypermode for 10 seconds or more leads into corrupt hypermode. During corrupt hypermode, the phazon meter turns from white to red and begins to slowly fill itself. In this state, Samus can no longer voluntarily cancel hypermode, but she can still vent the phazon manually by discharging her arm cannon. Taking damage will fill the meter with varying intensity. Venting the phazon tank entirely by manually discharging the arm cannon, or keeping the phazon levels stable for 30 seconds until the auto-vent initiates, will cancel hypermode. The latter can maximize damage output and phazon efficiency, but is also slightly harder to execute due to the risk of corruption — if the phazon meter fills completely and remains full for more than a few seconds, a unique game over screen will display. In the following cut-scene, Samus is shown being fully corrupted with phazon; thus transforming her into Dark Samus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metroid Prime 3: Corruption」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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