Nintendo has announced that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the much-hyped first-person shooter for the Nintendo Wii, will hit North American stores on August 27 (October 26 in Europe). The conformation was divulged at the firm’s E3 Media and Business summit earlier on today.

Nintendo promised that the Wii’s controls would allow players to become Samus Aran, the game’s protagonist, like never before. Described as a “quantum leap in first person control,” Corruption allows players to fire whilst running, grapple enemies and yank off their shields or manipulate machinery (pulling, twisting, flinging) - all through gesticulations with the Wii Remote and Nunchuck. It all adds up to “a level of immersion only possible on Wii, and the best first-person controls on any platform, period,” the title’s blurb reads.

Samus’ new ability, Hypermode, also gets its first demonstration, called a Phazon Enchancement Device (PED), it harnesses Phazon within her and puts her into the state of Hypermode. It makes her ultra powerful, but it is damaging to use, risking ultimate corruption if it is utilised for too long. Players need to carefully balance their massive power with the need to stay free from corruption.

Blasting it’s way to a Wii near you in October!

Check out the game’s storyline:

The trilogy ends … with a bang! Six months have passed since the events on the planet Aether. The Galactic Federation’s network computers, Aurora Units, are suddenly and completely corrupted with something like a virus, and only quick action saves the entire network from going down. The Federation believes Space Pirates may be behind the problem and, beginning with Samus, starts to contact bounty hunters. As it explains the situation to the assembled hunters, the Federation is attacked by the pirates. Samus and the other hunters leap to the defense of the Federation capital, only to find that the enemy the hunters face is the presumed-dead Dark Samus. Dark Samus defeats Samus and the other bounty hunters, corrupting them with Phazon in the process. They are all subsequently outfitted by the Galactic Federation with Phazon Enhancement Devices (PEDs) that can harness their corruption to enhance their powers. After learning to use this enhancement, called Hypermode, Samus sets off after Dark Samus, who has begun to seed other planets with Phazon by launching enormous Phazon seeds called Leviathans into them. As the Phazon begins to slowly corrupt Samus, the final saga in the Metroid Prime trilogy begins.

And how to progress:

The war initiated by Dark Samus and the Space Pirates ranges across many planets as Dark Samus attempts to corrupt each with Phazon seeds. Use the Hypermode system and Samus’ weapons – like the Power Beam, Morph Ball and Scan Visor – to explore alien landscapes, hunt for weapons and information, and destroy the seeds, all the while balancing Samus’ Phazon corruption with the powers granted to her by the PED suit. Saving the planets from corruption isn’t enough, though. Eventually, players must take down Samus’ mortal enemy, Dark Samus, as well.

Get ready for Corruption (or trying to avoid it in-game!) this October.