The ORIGINAL sci-fi action adventure game...

We live in a video game age of BioShocks, Resident Evils, and Dead Spaces that it's really hard to look at something like Metroid as scary. But if you start this bad girl up (Yes, I said "girl", Samus Aran is a babe) you are greeted by some of the creepiest music I've ever heard on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Although Metroid may not be a horror game per se, it features a similar premise as Resident Evil in which you explore, you have to learn the way yourself (Or cheat using internet maps), and you're surviving waves and waves of creatures that want to kill you in environments with a dark atmosphere.

"What do you mean I have no compass telling me where my mission objective is?!"
-Samus Aran

Yes, this game is part of Nintendo's "Adventure Series" which means you're expected to explore, remember where you've been and what you've done until that point. There is no save system but there is a password screen. I will say though that this game and Zelda are a little too big to just figure out on your own, more/better hints woul;d've been appreciated but oh well, this is the first game in the series and this little oversight is one that they had corrected in future releases such as Super Metroid and Metroid Prime. Great action in the groundbreaking age, however.

"Yeeeaaaaaah... She's gonna take some bad damage..."
-Mad Wolf

Story to Metroid is simple: Space Pirates are holding Metroids on planet Zebes to use as biological weapons and Samus is a bounty hunter sent to kill the Metroids and destroy the Mother Brain in charge. Normally with a game of this scale if there's no map or hints or nothing I'd say that hurts the score, but giving the age of the game and how original it was, I have to give Metroid 4 out 5 space bounty hunter babes... Though it does miss a point, it's still a good one for anyone's NES collection.