Ice Beam
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| Ice Beam | |
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 Samus charges up her Ice Beam. | |
| Featured in | Metroid Prime |
| Damage | Medium |
| Effect(s) | Slow weapon, freezes most enemies on contact. Deals extra damage to fire-based creatures. |
| Special uses | Open white doors. |
| Obtained | Mandatory item, found in the Antechamber. |
| Ice Beam (2-D Metroid titles) | |
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| Featured in | Metroid, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime |
| Damage | Average |
| Effect(s) | Freezing ability; creatures can be frozen for use as platforms |
| Special uses | Required to kill Metroids |
| Obtained | obtained in Norfair (or in Brinstar in Metroid only). (In Metroid, Metroid Zero Mission, & Super Metroid) Get attacked by the Omega Metroid and then absorb the SA-X's Core-X. (In Metroid Fusion) |
The Ice Beam is one of Samus's most powerful signature beam weapons that appears in all Metroid games except for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime Hunters, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It fires a potent beam that has the power to freeze most enemies.
When frozen, certain enemies can be shattered with missiles (or charged shots in the Prime series). It's commonly used to combat Metroids as it exploits their weakness to low temperatures.
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[edit] In Metroid Prime
The Ice Beam is a slow-firing interchangeable Beam upgrade to Samus' arsenal. Upon impact with a solid surface, the shot will freeze into a small fragment of ice and then shatter. When the Ice Beam is charged up, the Ice Beam will not only create a larger fragment of ice upon impact, but it will also freeze various enemies in their place. The Ice Beam is able to open White Doors. The 10 Missile Beam Combo for the Ice Beam is the Ice Spreader, which is a missile that releases a rapidly spreading sheet of ice upon the impacted surface. Such a weapon is highly effective against flying enemies, or those that attack or move in swarms. A glitch in the game allows the upgrade before fighting the Flaahgra, which can then lead to more opportunities for Sequence Breaking. This does not aid in the fight against Flaahgra, however, as the Ice Beam has no effect on either Flaahgra or the panels that are to be flipped over to defeat Flaahgra.
[edit] In other games
Samus has the power to stand on frozen enemies in all of the 2D games. This is usually crucial at some point in the games, as it gives extra height for jumping.
In Metroid Fusion, the Ice Beam was thought to be incompatible with the Fusion Suit by the federation, because the Metroid Vaccine gave Samus a vulnerability to ice, so she did not recover it until near the end of the game from the SA-X. However it appears that not all of its power was absorbed as the SA-X's could damage, drive back, and stun the Omega Metroid and Samus's could only do the first two. Before that point, freezing was done with the Ice and Diffusion Missiles. The Ice Missiles replaced the Ice Beam in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption as well, because the game used a beam-stacking system instead of a beam-switching system. Some of the characteristics of the Ice Beam are taken over by the Dark Beam in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and the Judicator in Metroid Prime Hunters.
The Ice Beam has been confirmed for Metroid: Other M and can be seen briefly in the trailer.
[edit] Trivia
- The gaming website Game Trailers ranked the Ice Beam as number 5 in the countdown of top 10 best weapons due to its use as a weapon and its aid in exploration by turning enemies into platforms in the 2-D games.
- Curiously, in the New Play Control! and Metroid Prime Trilogy versions of the game, the Arm Cannon does not freeze over when charged. Theories suggest that this may be due to the way this and other visual effects were programmed in the original versions of the game, making it too difficult to reproduce the effects on the Wii.
[edit] Appearances
 Metroid Fusion (combined with Charge, Wide, Plasma, and Wave Beams) |
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[edit] See also
| Beams |
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| Power Beam | Long Beam | Wave Beam | Ice Beam | Plasma Beam Charge Beam | Spazer Beam | Hyper Beam | Wide Beam Phazon Beam | Dark Beam | Light Beam | Annihilator Beam Volt Driver | Battlehammer | Magmaul | Shock Coil | Judicator | Imperialist Omega Cannon | Nova Beam | Paralyzer |
