14 DAY TRIAL // Since Halo 3 is enjoying such a good dose of popularity, especially when it comes to strapping the Spartan armor onto hot chicks, other titles involving heroes (heroines in this case) in armors had to do the same for themselves, right? Well, they didn't really have to, but someone actually thought that Samus' Power Suit would work just great with the girl you see in the picture to the left.
And it does, doesn't it? Just look at the striking resemblance between her and the comic book version of Samus Aran - the protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid series of video games. A bunch of other pictures depicting the real-life 'Samus Aran' in a life-sized Power Suit can be found below, right at the end of the article. Now here's some information on Nintendo's Metroid franchise, bust mostly on Samus herself, just in case those checking this piece out didn't get their chance to play the game:
Samus Aran is a cybernetic bounty hunter tasked with penetrating the space pirates' home planet, Zebes, and keeping them from destroying the galaxy with dangerous life forms known as Metroids. She does that in the game. The end! Well, that's what happens in the first installment of course. With the launch of the first Metroid Prime title (the fifth in the franchise), things tend to get a little more complicated.
The first installment in the Prime series of Metroids has an extensive use of storyline, which was considered a major difference from previous Metroid games. One of the most noticeable aspects about it consisted in the short cutscenes appearing before important moments - a boss battle for example. More than that, the Scan Visor could now be used to read text related to the Chozo and Space Pirates.
And so, Samus fought her endless battle with the Space Pirates until Metroid Prime 3, dubbed Corruption, arrived on scene. Prime 3 is the tenth game in the Metroid series and the third and final of the installments in the Metroid Prime trilogy (excluding two spin-offs).
Corruption takes place six months after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Leaving aside the graphical improvement and the motion sensitive control scheme possible only with the Wii's controller, the Wii Remote, players again take the role of Samus Aran who, unlike other installments in the series, now meets with other bounty hunters: Ghor, Rundas and Gandrayda. She has to kill them during the events of Prime 3. Sorry for the spoiler guys, but I've given it some thought - if you've read everything up to this point, you must be a fan of Samus and so, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is certainly old news for you.
Anyway, that's summing up Samus' background in the shortest way possible. Click on each one of the pictures below (courtesy of pixelninja.se) and by all means, save them to your computer if you will, no one blames you if you do.
