While the attempt resembles nothing of Microsoft's system of achievements, in spirit it might. Apparently, as part of a feature that promotes sharing your progress in the game with friends, Metroid Prime 3 will utilize tokens, in different color varieties. Each token will be awarded for in-game tasks completed.
The tokens come in four different colors: red, blue, green and gold. Reds are awarded for scanning enemies and items, blue for scanning lore and completing side missions, green comes from tokens gifted by friends and gold is received for defeating bosses on various difficulties. If this all says one thing to us, it says "replay value." So, we're expecting a huge game and it looks like we're getting it.
[Via Joystiq]
MP3 tokens award in-game tasks
Posted Aug 20th 2007 4:25PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
Tags: metroid, metroidprime3
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8-20-2007 @ 4:37PM
Charles said...
will this feature be online, i wonder?
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8-20-2007 @ 4:51PM
Jared said...
i'm pretty sure, i read somewhere you send tokens to your friends and they get "green" ones...
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8-20-2007 @ 4:55PM
Rocketman said...
I read the title and thought we might be getting ACTUAL rewards for completing tasks; and by actual, I read that as "tokens you can spend to purchase MP3s on a Nintendo site".
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8-20-2007 @ 5:05PM
T-bone and Razor said...
looks nice
Too bad none of my Wii friends really love Metroid as much as i do, at least not to the degree that they would wish to implement this
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8-20-2007 @ 5:10PM
hvnlysoldr said...
In the opening as the computer wakes her up, look at the random code. "BIOS Version 3.0 Wii Format" The firmware upgrade to play the game.
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8-20-2007 @ 7:22PM
T-bone and Razor said...
@ hvnlysoldr
Where'd you find that?
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8-20-2007 @ 8:21PM
flameofdoom666 said...
This isn't a copy of achievements. Metroid Prime 1 and 2 both had unlockables if you scanned a certain amount of data. This to me is the same system, just refined more.
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8-21-2007 @ 12:09AM
hvnlysoldr said...
The link goes to the second video of 6. Go to the very first one. It'll start the awakening sequence but gets interrupted. While it turns off and Samus awakens the screen has that code on the lower third.
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