Metroid Prime and ...... Powerslave?

After playing through a bit of Metroid Prime, I started to wonder if any Lobotomy team members were part of Retro Studios. Powerslave (aka Exhumed but you knew that) was one of the few FPS I liked; Metroid seemed to have many of the same qualities to me. However, I wasn't able to find any connection between Lobotomy and RS.

Still, if you take away the Egyptian / "Stargate" motif of Powerslave, what you have is a FPPerspective game with shooting, increasing health bars, platforming, bombing through walls to find secrets or passageways, and the occasional boss. Similiar in many ways to Metroid Prime! I'm over-simplifying, but I still think there is a slightly similar "feel" to the two games.

I never played much of Turok and I never played Half-life, which some of Retro Studios' team members created. So I don't know if there are also similarities to those games & Metroid Prime or not. I just seem to notice a similiarity between the excellent Powerslave and the seemingly more-excellent Metroid Prime.

Any "for" or "against" thoughts on my theory?

Retro developers worked at Valve?

ºTracer

I never played Powerslave - which version was better, PS or Saturn?

I'd assume Saturn because it was made for Saturn I think.

Is Powerslave that Egyption type FPS?

Edit: Reading the first post is good for you.

BTW PC was best for Powerslave.

The Saturn version rocked because it did what "wasn't possible" by some accounts -- a fast-frame-rated FPS with light sourcing FX.

Due to the different PSX architecture, I recall reading in Gamefan that Lobotomy changed things around a bit. So the PSx is NOT a carbon copy of the Saturn version. The Saturn version was pretty sweet.

Yeah, like the Iron Madien album.

ºTracer
Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave

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Originally posted by Cafeman
The Saturn version rocked because it did what "wasn't possible" by some accounts -- a fast-frame-rated FPS with light sourcing FX.

Due to the different PSX architecture, I recall reading in Gamefan that Lobotomy changed things around a bit. So the PSx is NOT a carbon copy of the Saturn version. The Saturn version was pretty sweet.

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I'm not sure - it's not beyond GF to be biased on the subject... Dan Jevons worked on the game I think.

ºTracer

Gamefan was probably biased in Lobotomy's favour. Powerslave was certainly not as good as GF hyped it to be and Lobotomy's port of Quake to the Saturn sucked even taking the hardware limitations into consideration. They did do a good job with porting Duke Nukem 3d to the Saturn though.

I rented the Saturn version of Powerslave and played the PC demo. The PC version is definitely better.

As for similarities with Metroid Prime, I never thought about it but they do seem slightly similar.

I believe one of them had an extra unlockable game when you got all the dolls, but I can't remember which one. As for comparing the game to Prime, I never played it myself.

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Originally posted by TracerBullet
I'm not sure - it's not beyond GF to be biased on the subject... Dan Jevons worked on the game I think.

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He didn't work on it, but he gave a suggestion for the control scheme that they ended up putting in and labeling Jevons Control or something like that.

I rented the PS version years ago, but it was so long ago I can't say anything about it except I think there were little flying bug enemies so thats one thing in common with Prime. I'm pretty sure the PS version was called Powerslave, and it was a good game from what I remember. I remember Gamefan going on about how the hidden game (battletank, I think) was so awesome.