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Metroid Prime: Hunters
DS
Released On: Mar 20, 2006
85
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 54 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
50 Reviews
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7% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 54 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
50 Reviews
50 Reviews
7% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is a cracker. A lot of thought has clearly gone into making the most of the DS’s touch-screen capability here, and it works gloriously. Sure, you still walk down dark corridors blasting anything that moves, but here you are in control as never before.
The best handheld first person shooter on the market, the best multiplayer Metroid game, and one of the best reasons to own a DS.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 198 User Ratings
7.5
60% Positive
118 Ratings
118 Ratings
30% Mixed
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
11% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 198 User Ratings
7.5
60% Positive
118 Ratings
118 Ratings
30% Mixed
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
11% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
Apr 16, 2025
Easily one of my favourite DS games of all time, great story, pretty bad graphics and slightly janky controls but you get used to it easily. The hunters are an amazing addition to the prime trilogy (especially Sylux). The multiplayer is also quite fun. Overall, amazing game and i would highly recommend playing it if you ever get the chance to.
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DS Feb 15, 2023
Es simplemente increíble buenos controles,Buenos graficos para ser de Nintendo DS y buen diseño tanto de texturas y personajes
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DS With a great single player component and an even better multiplayer one, this game's overall score is only slightly hurt by the fact that the end of each level in single player is repetitive and the controls take some getting used too.
Metroid Prime: Hunters is born from incredible pedigree, and it certainly shows. [May 2006, p.56]
Nintendo DS fans along with Metroid fans will be happy with the expansive multiplayer side of Metroid along with a solid FPS experience in the adventure mode.
Hunters is really two games; one is fantastic, the other is not. One is easily worth buying if you have good access to wireless Internet, while the other feels slapped together to dupe hardcore Metroid fans and to put "Action-Packed Single-Player Mode!" on the back of the box.
This feels like yet another genre shoehorned poorly onto hardware that just isn’t equipped to handle it.
May 4, 2024
I like this game alot, all of the new bounty hunters are great world building, also the controls are overhated, although as a left handed person I had to move samus with the face buttons so...
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DS Apr 19, 2024
This game is not bad, but the controls are a nightmare, even on a New 2ds LL, maybe a New 3ds LL would have made it more playable but after finishing it on my 2ds LL i can say that I liked the game, but this game is being held back by the hardware and control limitations of the nintendo ds.
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DS Oct 20, 2023
I never thought I say it, but there is a bad Metroid game; Metroid Prime Hunters is that game. It had a lot of potential to be good, with the areas it provides to explore, the lore built within the game, and the interesting new hunter characters. But it just overall fails the process with its horrid control scheme and terrible formulaic gameplay. Stay away from this game!
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DS Feb 8, 2021
you got ds that has a ton of awesome 2d games, yet no you go and do a 3d metroid. NOPE
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DS Summary Who is the Galaxy's Most Elite Bounty Hunter? Before Metroid Prime Hunters, the answer was easy. Now that six other ferocious bounty hunters have gathered to challenge Samus, the title is up for grabs. Engage in intense four-player deathmatches either locally or against players from around the world with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Battle...
Rated T for Teen
