Metroid Dread

A still from the video game Metroid Dread

Nintendo’s most diligent hunter returns this October with Metroid Dread. Last we saw Samus Aran, she barely escaped a research station in 2002’s Metroid Fusion, battling a vicious parasite called X that could imitate the most dangerous beings in the universe. Including herself.

This long-awaited next chapter sees Samus investigating an outpost where Federation robots have been vanishing en masse, raising concern that X, or even the vampiric Metroid, has survived.

Samus will have to evade haywire EMMI drones, space pirates and a mysterious adversary using Chozo weaponry — the elusive race of Samus’s adopted family whose training and tech gives Samus an edge against fearsome monsters. Samus’s new nightmare begins Oct. 8 on the Nintendo Switch.

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