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Metroid Prime: Blast Ball

Blast Ball is a multiplayer mode and in-universe sport game that appear in Metroid Prime: Federation Force. Blast Ball can be played alone or against local or online players. Players who do not possess a copy…

60 21 July 2016

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball is a shooter developed by Next Level Games, released 21 July 2016 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Metroid Prime: Blast Ball is

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball is a shooter game developed by Next Level Games and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blast Ball is a multiplayer mode and in-universe sport game that appear in Metroid Prime: Federation Force. Blast Ball can be played alone or against local or online players. Players who do not possess a copy of Federation Force will be able to play this mode through Nintendo 3DS Download Play. The game mode has been released as a standalone title, Metroid Prime: Blast Ball, in the Nintendo eShop as a free downloadable demo in both the European and American storefronts.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction.

Where it sits in the Metroid series

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball is the 36th of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. It arrived 2 years after Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The next entry was Metroid Prime: Federation Force in 2016. Its critic score of 60 is 22 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.

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How it was received

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball launched on 21 July 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked! and Starbound. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked!, Starbound.

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When did Metroid Prime: Blast Ball come out?
Metroid Prime: Blast Ball was released on 21 July 2016 for Nintendo 3DS.

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