Metroid Prime is Chronologically the second game in the Metroid series. This is the start of a great series of first person shooter Metroid games, but instead of focusing on Shooting the crap out of your opponents all the time, they focus on the exploration that the other games did. It begins when a distress signal is intercepted by the Federation. Samus is sent to the source and finds a Space Pirate Frigate orbiting the planet of Tallon IV. Aboard the frigate there are dead space pirates and other organisms. A scan of the creatures reveals that they are heavily mutated experiments, scanning a log reveals that this Frigate escaped Zebes, when Samus destroyed mother brain, with a cargo of Metroids, and the mutagenic substance used in the experiments. Samus kills the last remaining experiment; it falls into the reactor, which triggers a chain reaction that will destroy the ship. While you escape you find Ridley, revived through machinery, but he flies off before Samus can do anything. On the elevator leading to your ship a blast hits Samus and takes away most of her powers, leaving you with only your power suit and power beam. Samus tracks Ridley as close as she can get to the Pirate Base on Tallon IV. You find that there are ruins of an old Chozo civilization on Tallon IV, you search these ruins for your upgrades you lost on the ship. Scanning the Chozo lore reveals that they lived here in simplicity, and eventually achieved a state at which they could peacefully watch the galaxy outside of it. But, a meteor crashed on their planet; it resealed a substance that ripped them from their state and began eating at the environment and themselves. You eventually find a Pirate base (with the first 3D metroids!). Scanning the logs, you find that the same mutegenic substance on the frigate was the substance that disrupted the Chozo's peace. The Pirates named this substance "Phazon". Phazon is the main idea behind all the Metroid Prime games except "hunters". They have been trying to harness this power to make stronger soldiers, but have failed. More Chozo lore tells that, in an effort to stop the spread of Phazon, the Chozo built a alter above the crater where the Meteor impacted to contain the source of Phazon, and sealed with twelve coded artifacts. After getting more advanced Chozo suit powers, you gain access to the Phazon mines. This is obviously where the Pirates are getting most of their Phazon from. Scanning the logs here let you know that the pirates have had some success in building stronger soldiers. (You even have to fight some of them), but mostly it tells of the creature that started this whole mess: Metroid Prime. It is a Metroid Extremely mutated by Phazon. The Pirates captured it for a time, before it escaped, absorbed some Pirate Machinery into its very being, and went back into the crater. Apparently the Pirates dug under the Chozo's alter, because their logs say they have had no progress in getting past it, and it was the only place Metroid Prime could go. After getting a Phazon infused suit by killing the ultimate Phazon mutated Pirate, you begin your search for the Chozo artifacts keeping the crater sealed. After doing this you fight Ridley in his metal body (which is a great fight by the way) then descend down into the crater to eliminate Metroid Prime and prevent the Pirates from Phazon weapons too advanced to be beaten and taking over the Galaxy. Metroid Prime's Pirate armor doesn't make it easy, but Samus gets it done, and after his armor falls off he looks much more like a Metroid. You defeat him by using your suit to absorb his Phazon discharge he must dispense of, and shooting him with pure Phazon(You'll find in the other games that Phazon's greatest weakness is its tendency to be overloaded by itself). After you kill Metroid Prime, he starts absorb all nearby Phazon, he even gets the Phazon in your suit. Samus automatically escapes the crater and flies off satisfied that Phazon is gone, but it isn't... Getting 100% gives you the real ending: You see the hand of Samus's Phazon suit come out of MetroidPrime's Remains!
Metroid Prime Pinball is the same as Metroid Prime, only in Pinball form.
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