METROID PRIME
Metroid Prime is one of the highest rated games of all time. It was a stunning achievement of technology and game design- and funnily enough, it wasn’t even a Metroid game to begin with. Developers Retro Studios were working on a first person shooter, but as the legend goes, they ran into a lot of trouble trying to make progress on that project (along with many of the other projects they had in the works at that time). During a visit from Nintendo’s legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, all of their projects got cancelled and thrown out. All except the first person shooter – Miyamoto felt that game could be retooled into Metroid, you see, so it ended up being overhauled and turned into the game that would eventually become Metroid Prime. It’s amazing how arguably the most iconic Metroid game didn’t even start life as one.
