“Metroid Prime™ 4 – Beyond” is a sci-fi action-adventure game which revolves around the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who is suddenly transported to the planet Viewros where she gains mysterious psychic abilities and learns of the Lamorn alien race. During the journey, Samus will investigate the truth behind the Lamorn and confront various threats on the planet while trying to find a way to return home.
The game is rated Advisory 16 (Suitable for 16 & Above).
Played from the first-person and third-person perspectives, the protagonist can explore various environments as a humanoid character, shrink into a small ball to navigate smaller spaces or use a motorcycle for traversal. Gameplay involves scanning the environment for information, finding items, talking to characters and combating adversaries. Weapons like missiles, bombs, energy beams and elemental attacks can be used to strike and defeat humanoid, creature and mechanical enemies. Psychic powers can be wielded to gain access to new areas and heal troopers, while selected items recover health and augment character traits. Transmission feeds and cinematic scenes expand the narrative of the game.
Some corpses can be encountered during exploration. Combat can be frenetic when the protagonist fights incoming waves of foes during intense clashes, which are accompanied by bright flashes, explosions and impact sounds without explicit details of bloodletting portrayed. Attacks on creatures can result in appendages being severed or exploding with bodily fluids spurting and staining surrounding surfaces. The ADV16 guidelines allow “realistic but not excessively graphic violence with depiction of blood”.