Twenty-four years after her initial appearance, Samus Aran returns.

"Metroid: Other M" (Nintendo) continues the outer-space adventures of the series heroine with a new control setup that will have players flipping all night long.

The eleventh game in the series, the action in "Metroid: Other M" actually takes place between the events of two other releases, "Super Metroid" from 1994 "Metroid Fusion" from 2002. The beginning of "Metroid: Other M" actually retells the ending of "Super Metroid" in a lengthy, opening scene.

Action begins as Samus answers a distress call from a floating ship and runs into a group of space soldiers who are also investigating the call. Players guide Samus through the ship, searching for survivors and looking to discover what caused the disaster in the first place.

Players see movement through the ship from many vantage points. Sometimes, it appears to be a side-scroller game with left to right movement only. Other times, it takes on first-person shooter characteristics, allowing a line of sight viewpoint and full 3-D motion within rooms and hallways.

In addition to the adventure on the damaged space ship, well-rendered cut-scenes spend a lot of time looking back in time -- revealing more about Samus' haunted past and why she decided to become an intergalactic bounty hunter.

For longtime fans of the series, these scenes really fill in the gaps about her history and motivation as a warrior.

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