Metroid Prime Hunters starts out with our heroan, Samus, travelling the galaxy searching for blah blah blah.  We all know the story.  Samus finds a strange reading and goes to search.  She loses her abilities somehow and has to reacquire them.  But in this Metroid game, you don't lose your abilities and have to regain them.  That is a first in the Metroid world.  However, you do acquire new weapons in the game as you progress.

The controls of the game are rock solid and acts like a true FPS as you would play on a PC, but without a two button mouse and a keyboard.  The controls with the touch screen and stylus work just as well as a mouse but without the button features.  The firing it just as easy however.  But if you already have the demo of the game then you already know how the basic controls work.  Aiming is spot on to where any miss is your own fault.

Graphics are highly improve from the demo and push the DS to it's limit.  Targets appear easily and don't make you squint your eyes to make out if you're looking at an enemy or an object.  Cutscenes utilizes both the top and bottom screens to play movies either in a scaled vertical screenplay or using both screens for two different angels.

 The big thing about the game that trully makes the game just awesome is the multiplayer feature.  There are 7 modes to play with 3 other players.  There's Battle where you go all out and kill each other in a free for all or on a team.  Survival sets you up with a limit amount of lives where when you lose all your lives it's game over and the last player standing is the winnor.  Bounty lets you collect gems called Octolith and taking them to a specified location to earn points.  Defender is just the same as King of the Hill.  You control a marked area and stay alive 'while holding that area.  Prime Hunter is like playing Tag, but you want to be it by making the first kill in the game and hold the title "prime hunter".  Capture is your basic Capture the Flag game.  And finally there's Nodes which is similar to Defender/King of the Hill but you have to hold the node for 10 seconds before moving onto the next node.  The game lets you play up to four players with your friends who have a copy of the game or with one copy of the game.  Or you can actually take your gaming to the next level with Nintendo Wi-Fi and play online with other players.  The online gameplay is pretty much Nintendo taking the current gameplay elements and giving it an extreme makeover.  Nintendo uses the friends list where you exchange friend codes with your friends.  Not only that, Nintendo introduces the rival list where you play with other people online on Nintendo Wi-Fi and instead of adding them to your friends list like you do in other games, you can actually put them on your rival list so you can play them again later without actually making them your "friend".  Metroid Prime Hunters even includes two ways of chatting with your friends on your friend list (not your rivals).  One way is with the touch screen keyboard just like in PictoChat.  Or you can use the built-in mic on your Nintendo DS and voice chat with your friends.  That's right, you can voice chat with your friends.

 The online gameplay was the feature every Metroid gamer has been wanting ever since Nintendo didn't include that feature in Metroid Prime 2 for the Nintendo GameCube.  Now that it's included in the DS version, this game is gonna be Nintendo's version of Microsoft's Halo 2.  Extremely hard to put down and gonna be owned by almost all Nintendo DS owners.

I'm giving this game my best score of  5 out of 5.