Former Retro Studios Dev Reveals “Rejected” Wii Pitch Metroid Tactics

It seems the Metroid Primary series was not the only Metroid collection remaining labored on at Retro Studios. Did You Know Gaming has been ready to uncover a person of the developer’s other tasks that never noticed the gentle of working day.

Metroid Strategies was a notion pitched internally by Paul Tozer – a member of the Metroid Prime staff. This mysterious job was aimed at the Wii, with the pitch written up in “late” 2007 following the completion of the 3rd Key game. It would have been a “collection prequel” – with situations having location “lengthy in advance of all other video games in the Metroid collection”.

“It marks the quite second when Samus Aran initial separates from the Chozo who elevated her from childhood, encounters humanity and gets to be a bounty hunter. The video game also marks humankind’s very first come upon with the Area Pirates and Metroids.

“Samus have to cooperate with an elite crew of extremely educated Galactic Federation Troopers and vibrant bounty hunters to halt the incursion on various Galactic Federation planets, at many destinations on planets this kind of as Norion and Earth and sooner or later get on the Room Pirates at their outpost on world Zebes.”

Tozer describes how the recreation would have been identical to the transform-centered tactical collection XCOM:

“It is basically XCOM, it was XCOM in the Metroid Universe besides alternatively of fighting aliens, you’re combating Room Pirates – who are also aliens but distinct”

Samus would have been the most important character in the video game, but she was apparently just a single of lots of soldiers the player would have commanded. Gamers would have controlled a single commander, in unique, regarded as Justin Bailey (a throwback to the renowned passcode in the initial Metroid sport on NES). Tozer adds:

“The participant requires the part of a galactic federation commander…it even has a name for him, I am not heading to repeat. Really stupid title”

The project was going to utlised the Wii’s one of a kind controls, and for Retro it was likely to be a “comparatively affordable” venture, as it could have reused substantially of the motor, art belongings and animation from the Prime sequence.

So, what was the summary to Metroid Ways? This challenge was only staying worked on by Paul Tozer and it was rejected by Retro’s “higher-ups”, so Nintendo under no circumstances finished up looking at the pitch. Did You Know Gaming’s hottest video clip goes into more depth. You can check it out on YouTube.

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