Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
North American and PAL region box art
Developer(s)	Retro Studios
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Mark Pacini
Producer(s)	Kensuke Tanabe
Programmer(s)	Frank Lafuente
Artist(s)	Todd Keller
Composer(s)	Kenji Yamamoto Minako Hamano Masaru Tajima
Series	Metroid
Platform(s)	Wii
Release	NA: August 27, 2007 EU: October 26, 2007 AU: November 8, 2007 JP: March 6, 2008
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The seventh main game in the Metroid series, it was released in North America and Europe in 2007 and in Japan the following year.

Corruption is set six months after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004). It follows the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who becomes infected with Phazon by her doppelgänger Dark Samus. Samus works to prevent the Phazon from spreading to other planets while being corrupted by the Phazon.

The player controls Samus using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk devices. The remote is used for jumping, aiming, and firing weapons, while the Nunchuk enables actions such as moving Samus and locking onto enemies. Corruption introduces features such as Hypermode, which allows Samus to use more powerful attacks, and the ability to command her gunship. The new control scheme took a year to develop and delayed the game's release several times. The game was first shown to the public at the E3 2005 trade show.

Like the previous Prime games, the game received critical acclaim, with reviews praising its gameplay, graphics and music, though some were divided on the controls. More than one million copies were sold in 2007. It was re-released in August 2009 as part of the compilation Metroid Prime: Trilogy. A sequel, Metroid Prime 4, was announced in June 2017 for the Nintendo Switch.