REVIEW: Nintendo invited me to play two hours of the game's campaign this week.

And while its combat and boss battles live up to the high bar set by its predecessors, there was none of the new motorcycle gameplay or any opportunity to explore the "open world" areas connecting Metroid Prime 4 's biomes.

That's not to say there weren't surprises.

Seeing the most realistic humans ever rendered in a Nintendo game was not on my bingo card.

Nor were chatty NPCs and escort missions in a franchise famous for its sense of isolation.

But what I played, I really liked and I did get a much better sense of the game's story.

Sylux, a deadly bounty hunter, has found a way to hatch his own metroids and is using them to corrupt and control the galaxy's space pirates.

The sharp-shooter is af

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