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Is there anything different about the PAL metroid compared to the US version?

I have the US version and I read somewhere that there were going to be changes made for the PAL release and something must have been done for NGC to rate the PAL version 1% higher than the US one.

This is official.

The game has been made harder:

Enemies have to take more hits to die.
Health and ammo are less readily availble.
Doors need to be shot mulitple times to open unlike the US which is only once.
A voice has been added to the game. go here to check : http://www1.charper.net/ ~tyler/files/metroidnarrationcompressed. mp3

Thats is all the changes made to Metroid Prime for the PAL version.

*British, fairly obviously. :D

They just made it harder after a survey was conducted. The results showed that Britich gamers demanded more from Games than our American counterparts- and that we're more likely to play the whole way through a game.

Just subtle changes you'll notice if you have played both. :)

There's less chance of an enemy dropping health or ammo when it dies.

They've bought back the 'pink door' 'green door' thing from Super Metroid.

And the text at the start is spoken.



It's nothing major, just an extra bit of polish.

they've messed it up by making items rarer and enemies harder.. nothing special. It's fine in the US version, why did they need to chamge it?

well, I haven't come across either.

If they made the game harder, what about Hard Mode? that must be solid on the PAL game.

The were supposed to have added some voice acting like in Super Metroid, aswell as make some doors require multiple shots to open them.

they made it harder apparently..

Is there anything different about the PAL metroid compared to the US version?

I have the US version and I read somewhere that there were going to be changes made for the PAL release and something must have been done for NGC to rate the PAL version 1% higher than the US one.