Metroid Prime

As good as the original games on August 12, 2006

Metroid (for NES) and Super Metroid (for Super NES) are two of the greatest games ever made. They were exciting, dark, atmospheric, and satisfying. They even had good music - amazing when you think about games like Super Mario Bros. :)

Metroid Prime lives up to the high bar set by its predecessors. The premise is the same - you are Samus Aran, an interstellar bounty hunter who crash-lands on an alien planet. Your job is to investigate what has gone on, and regain your strength along the way. Metroid Prime is played from a first-person perspective, not a side-scrolling perspective (like the original games), but the translation to 3d works extremely well. It is one of the easiest FPS-style games that I have ever controller.

All in all, if you want a challenging action game that actually has some depth, this is it.