Someone at Neogaf Forums discovered a concept for a Metroid game leaked by Tony C. Giovanni, one of Retro's level designers. It's a really interesting concept, so it's worth a look.
The story takes place after Metroid Prime on a large alien ship. The gone mad AI of the ship abducts several bounty hunters including Samus and other strong fighters in order to learn their abilities, so they can be assimilated by the ship's robots and aliens to built an army. Samus' mission is to stop the AI of course. The AI has multiple personalities, the child, the mother, the martyr and the killer. Depending on what part of the personality you're facing, the environment and obstacles will change. The child might want to play with you which results in puzzle heavy gameplay, while the killer tries to ... well, kill you. The AI might fill room with poison gas, lock doors to mock you among other stuff. It's a really unique concept, basically the next level of H.A.L.
Samus abilities would be blocked, but she can get them back by scanning certain bots. But this scanning transfers her DNA and because of this, your enemies will be able to use your abilities, which results later in another evil Samus clone. But you can also aquire new abilites (probably from other bounty hounters) like cloaking, wall walk or infrared vision.
I'm only scratching the surface here, so I advise you to take a look at the concepts for yourself. There are also some ideas about a coop mode, but I'm not interested in playing Metroid cooperatively. However, though the whole game concept got rejected, it sounds much better than what we got with Metroid: Other M. So, if Nintendo is working on a new Metroid game, they should definitely revisit this concept.
Source:
Metroid Database
Neogaf Forums
The story takes place after Metroid Prime on a large alien ship. The gone mad AI of the ship abducts several bounty hunters including Samus and other strong fighters in order to learn their abilities, so they can be assimilated by the ship's robots and aliens to built an army. Samus' mission is to stop the AI of course. The AI has multiple personalities, the child, the mother, the martyr and the killer. Depending on what part of the personality you're facing, the environment and obstacles will change. The child might want to play with you which results in puzzle heavy gameplay, while the killer tries to ... well, kill you. The AI might fill room with poison gas, lock doors to mock you among other stuff. It's a really unique concept, basically the next level of H.A.L.
Samus abilities would be blocked, but she can get them back by scanning certain bots. But this scanning transfers her DNA and because of this, your enemies will be able to use your abilities, which results later in another evil Samus clone. But you can also aquire new abilites (probably from other bounty hounters) like cloaking, wall walk or infrared vision.
I'm only scratching the surface here, so I advise you to take a look at the concepts for yourself. There are also some ideas about a coop mode, but I'm not interested in playing Metroid cooperatively. However, though the whole game concept got rejected, it sounds much better than what we got with Metroid: Other M. So, if Nintendo is working on a new Metroid game, they should definitely revisit this concept.
Source:
Metroid Database
Neogaf Forums
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