Combat Visor

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Combat Visor from New Play Control! Metroid Prime. Shown are: immediate area danger level (left), radar (top left), health status (top middle), mini-map (top right), missile ammo (right), current beam (lower right), and current visor (lower left).

The Combat Visor is Samus Aran's basic Visor in the Prime Series. The Combat Visor gives her the basic feedback she needs to survive. It monitors her energy levels, her missiles remaining, Light and Dark Beam Ammo, Power Bombs remaining, danger levels, and gives her feedback from the environment to pin point any anomalies to send her in the right direction. When enemies appear, they are surrounded by a crosshair. However, the Combat Visor only sees things in this dimension, therefore objects outside the visible spectrum or interdimensional objects cannot be seen. Other visors must be applied in those situations.

In trailer within Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc, it is revealed that Federation Marines use "Combat Visors" as well.

[edit] Metroid: Other M

In the Metroid: Other M trailer, Samus has the ability to use first-person and third-person. This brings back the use of the Visors, including the Combat Visor. In the trailer, the Combat Visor is drastically changed. Her energy level is no longer found at the top center of the screen. Instead, it is at the top left corner, with an Energy Tank bar found underneath it, having a limit of nine Energy Tanks. Beneath this as well, there is a charge meter which was not featured in the previous Prime games. Beside the energy levels is a missile tank bar.

As shown in the trailer when Samus battles the "purple creature," a separate health bar appears in the top right-hand side of the screen showing the boss's health.

The lock-on system is also featured, however, the 'current visor' or 'current beam' and also the radar and danger level features are not shown, indicating that they may not be featured in the new game.