Nintendo shares the first gameplay trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

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The caller crippled is coming successful 2025.

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Jun 18, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

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Nintendo yet shared gameplay footage of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond during Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct. The little video was classical Metroid Prime, featuring aggravated first-person gunfighting and scanning worldly successful the environment. Unfortunately, we’ll person to hold a small portion until we tin play it for ourselves, arsenic the institution gave a vague 2025 merchandise model for the title.

We’ve been waiting a precise agelong clip for immoderate scraps of accusation astir the adjacent introduction successful the beloved Metroid Prime series. The crippled was archetypal revealed on June 13th, 2017, with just a logo, and erstwhile Nintendo announced that it was rebooting the title successful January 2019, its video didn’t incorporate immoderate footage of the crippled itself. When it said it was restarting development, Nintendo revealed that the archetypal developers of the series, Retro Studios, would beryllium taking over.

Since the announcement of Prime 4, however, determination has been tons of caller Metroid to play. Metroid Dread was an excellent instrumentality to the series’ 2D roots, and Metroid fans got a dainty successful 2023 erstwhile Nintendo shadow-dropped Metroid Prime Remastered. Remastered turned retired to beryllium an incredible remake of my favourite crippled of each time, and it got maine precise excited for Prime 4.