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Animated Blood: GamerDad found minimal use of blood and agrees that it looks "cartoonish" - no stains, no spray, no gore. Violence: When Samus isn't figuring out puzzles, she's shooting aliens. Most of the time she's shooting aliens. Halo 3 isn't the only game series on its 3rd installment and wearing fashionable powered armor on store shelves these days. Xbox 360 owners can have Master Chief and his M-Mature ESRB rating so far as Nintendo Wii players are concerned. For Wii fans, powered armor means Samus and a 3 in the title means Metroid Prime has come to the Wii! "Metroid Prime 3" is an important game. Ever since Nintendo announced their revolutionary motion sensing Wii controller people have imagined playing first-person shooters. Launch title Red Steel and ports of WWII games have shown some potential, but "Metroid Prime 3: Corruption" is the first Nintendo created first-person shooter. If anyone could live up to the immersive potential of aiming and shooting with a remote control, while moving with that stick atop the Nunchuk controller, it'd have to be Nintendo. And that leads us to some very good news: Metroid 3: Corruption raises the bar and shows how much fun and how immersive first-person adventure shooting becomes on a system like the Wii. How'd they do it? We're not sure because this is the same movement system that was panned for Red Steel (the nunchuk is used for movement, while moving the remote to the edge causes the character to turn). Nintendo seems to have refined the sensor to differentiate aiming and turning better. The result is a lot more trick shooting and precision, and a lot less aiming at the floor or ceiling by accident. The story covers familiar ground to any seasoned Metroid veterans. Samus Aran is an intergalactic bounty hunter but she works primarily as an exterminator. The infestation is a mutagen infection and the gameplay focuses far less on shooting and killing than most games like this, and far more in puzzles and exploration. "Metroid Prime 3: Corruption" is rated T-Teen, making it one of the most family friendly shooting games you can get, but the overall difficulty of some of the puzzles and Boss creatures makes for a game best recommended for more experienced gamers. There aren't a lot of games available for the Wii that are T-Teen and like "Metroid Prime 3" so we'll recommend "Resident Evil 4" for older gamers, "Wii Play" for target shooting, and we'd like to remind you that budget releases of "Metroid 1 & 2" for the GameCube are available and a lot of fun (though you'll miss the immersive Wii controls).  
This game is part of the Metroid series of classic games and is the third one to be a first-person shooter. Since this game is on the Wii, the motion control system provides a more immersive experience as players use the Wii remote to actually do the shooting. But at the same time the game is lighter on mature, graphic content -- the aliens aren't shown bleeding or dying in agony. While a shooter, this game also focuses on puzzle-solving. We set the age appropriateness based on the difficulty of the puzzle play and some of the battles. We almost gave this a 10+ but if we did we'd have to warn parents that it's one the harsher end of that scale. Also, the controls do take some hand/eye coordination that younger tweens might not possess.
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