Planet Gamecube has an interview up with Retro Studios on the upcoming Wii launch title, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. There's some good stuff here... for one, we were pleased to read that Samus will be getting layered beam effects back, a la Super Metroid, instead of the weapon switching of the last two games. But does this sound cool or what?

PGC: Do you fly the ship, since there are multiple planets this time around? Do you have any kind of shooting stages or anything like that?

Pacini: Samus doesn't directly fly her ship. You do go to different planets with your ship, but you don't have direct flight control over it. However, we are using the ship for gameplay as a tool for Samus. She has a new visor called the Command Visor, which will allow Samus from the third-person to control her ship remotely. So you can call it in to do air strikes, you can have it come in and lift large things out of your way or move them around in the environment, as well as use it as a platform, things like that. It's another tool, a unique way to use the ship rather than just fly it around, diluting the gameplay.

Calling in air strikes in Metroid? That's the bee's knees. - Florian Eckhardt

INTERVIEWS: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption E3 Interview [Planet Gamecube]

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