Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

 GameCube
User Score
8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 506 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 454 out of 506
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 506
  3. Negative: 28 out of 506
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  1. JoseM.
    Dec 3, 2004
    10
    One of the greatest games for GameCube.
  2. AB
    Jan 3, 2005
    10
    This is one of the most compelling and immersive games to be released in years.
  3. MarkS.
    Nov 18, 2004
    10
    Reviewers are actually deducting points because of the added multiplayer element that players and fans demanded for? Are the reviewers at Gamespot stoned or something? This game is simply the best of 2004.
  4. Mr.T.
    Nov 2, 2004
    10
    Heck, why stop at best Gamecube game ever? This might be the best game ever! Wait, scratch that, the best piece of entertainment ever! No, the best work of art ever made! Even better, the best thing to ever be fashioned by human hands! The pinnacle of God's creation! The height of evolution! The zenith of human existence!
  5. DannyD.
    May 1, 2004
    10
    If this game is anything like the first, my vote's already been cast!
  6. Chuck
    Mar 4, 2005
    10
    This game was even better than the first. More enemies and more weapons and thats all shooting games need. This game was defientaly the greatest first-person shooter I have ever played. Call me crazy if you wish but I thought this game even surpassed Halo and Halo 2.
  7. RolL.
    Apr 1, 2005
    10
    One of the top games i've played on the GameCube... Hours and hours and hours of gameplay. Superior to the first Metroid just because the Bosses are so great.
  8. Geckat
    Jun 3, 2005
    10
    Who cares if the multiplayer was got old and boring within two hours? This is still my favorite game ever for single-player. The storyline is amped-up since the last one. The graphics, bosses, and hardness likewise. I'm still trying to beat Quadraxis in Hard mode, and I've been playing about two hours a day for the past two months. But ít's the first time you play Who cares if the multiplayer was got old and boring within two hours? This is still my favorite game ever for single-player. The storyline is amped-up since the last one. The graphics, bosses, and hardness likewise. I'm still trying to beat Quadraxis in Hard mode, and I've been playing about two hours a day for the past two months. But ít's the first time you play it, you get that warm feeling inside that you used to when you were seven. You heave a huge sigh of relief, and realize that there's sweat dripping down your shirt, and everything in the end makes it so that if you had really just defeated the Emperor Ing yourself, it would all be worth it. Best game ever.… Expand
  9. DanielF
    Jul 26, 2005
    10
    Not as good as the first Metroid Prime, but is still amazing! Just remember Nintendo, the ammo system for the beam weapons does not work n Metroid Games!
  10. IvyI.
    Mar 10, 2007
    10
    Yes, this is the best single player shooting game I have ever played. The story,the environmental worlds, the weapons, and the creatures. A must get game for all.
  11. AdamF.
    Sep 17, 2007
    10
    Simply put, Metroid Prime with style.
  12. TimothyR.
    Nov 12, 2004
    10
    To good to be true!!!!!!!
  13. [Anonymous]
    Nov 14, 2004
    10
    Awesome gameplay, awesome graphics, awesome music, awesome atmosphere, fun-but-flawed multiplayer. awesome experience.
  14. JuanV.
    Nov 20, 2004
    10
    This game is amazing in every single way. the graphics are stunning, the music is great, this game is just a masterpiece. plus the addition of multiplayer just makes this game perfect. this is a must own game, period.
  15. EdocS.
    Nov 22, 2004
    10
    If you enjoy not having a really good time your wasting your friggin time with this game. God likes Metroid, so why don't you?
  16. NateH.
    Nov 5, 2004
    10
    Game kicks ass!!!!!
  17. MetroidRules
    Nov 7, 2004
    10
    It's Metroid but better!
  18. DavidH.
    Dec 22, 2004
    10
    I liked it, in fact I LOVED it. Sme ov you gyz kannt spel reely gut, ya dig?
  19. Samus
    Sep 10, 2004
    10
    I can't believe I played a demo of one of the most anticipated sequels of all time. It's the most gorgeous Gamcube game ever and probably will be the best Gamecube game ever.
  20. JasonH.
    Jan 11, 2005
    10
    A-W-S-O-M-E no other words required.
  21. DanielH.
    Jan 14, 2005
    10
    I'm giving it a 10 because it had the best grafics I've seen since the first one came out. But I think they went over the top with the ammo on the light beam and dark beam where if you waist the last one on a room that is a dead end you cant get out at all and you have to turn it off and start all over.
  22. JustinB.
    Oct 3, 2005
    10
    A more realistic world, more indepth story, and a much more epic feel coupled with great new additions and the same solid gameplay make MP2 an excellent sequel to what remains one of the best games of this generation.
  23. MarkH.
    Feb 17, 2005
    10
    The sheer beauty of this game llies not in the undoubtedly amazing graphics and gameplay, but in something deeper. the "metroid" feeling that metroid games are designed around: that feeling of being lost and alone on a completely alien world, with no choice but to press forward; it's so, so prevalent here, in all the things that have changed. so many mainstays of the metroid franchiseThe sheer beauty of this game llies not in the undoubtedly amazing graphics and gameplay, but in something deeper. the "metroid" feeling that metroid games are designed around: that feeling of being lost and alone on a completely alien world, with no choice but to press forward; it's so, so prevalent here, in all the things that have changed. so many mainstays of the metroid franchise are gone, such as the familiar beams and suits used in every metroid game up to this point, replaced by something alien and unfamiliar. the entire mechanic of the planet aether is something absolutely unheard of in a metroid game. and finally, there is nary a sight of an actual metroid anywhere in this game. the way echoes plays this feeling of uneasiness, alienation, and outright dread is outright fantastic, and it makes it one of my favorite games of all time.… Expand
  24. DavidR.
    Mar 15, 2005
    10
    I think it is the best game in the world nintendo should be please what they have done.
  25. JonathanG.
    Mar 14, 2006
    10
    Stylish menus and better graphis than the first. The story is even better than the first. Multiplayer isn't all that great though.
  26. DennisB.
    Jul 18, 2006
    10
    One of the best games I ever played!
  27. DeanK.
    Aug 1, 2006
    10
    One of the BEST gamecube games out there now.
  28. Benchex
    Nov 12, 2004
    10
    This game kicks ass. The story is one of the deepest I have ever seen. You really feel alone in the new world.
  29. JSatti
    Nov 12, 2004
    10
    Excellent art. makes halo2 look like digital excrement.
  30. MichaelH.
    Nov 19, 2004
    10
    Yes, Mike B, let's change an award winning, almost perfect game that was fine tuned to the minutest detail...That will surely ensure that the game is loved...Hmm let's vote bad for MP2 being simliar to MP1, but lets give Halo 2 a good score. I think that that is REALLY fair. Go play Animal Crossing or something... Best game for GC right now. PERIOD.
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#1 Best GameCube Game of 2004
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#4 Most Shared GameCube Game of 2004

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
  1. Gamestyle
    100
    To match such thrill-a-minute environments, the level design, puzzles, and boss fights are all insanely original.
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  2. Games Radar
    90
    Other than a few superficial tweaks and some vanilla, offline multiplayer, the rest is exactly like the first Prime.
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  3. NTSC-uk
    90
    Whilst none of the levels quite match up to the stunning quality that was Phendrana Drifts, it is, as a sum of its parts, wonderfully evocative as a playing experience and induces the same level, if not more, of internal satisfaction that Prime achieved.
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