Until now, we would have said that the DS struggles to run 3D games, but Metroid Prime: Hunters proves that is not the case. Nintendo's intergalactic bounty-hunting first-person shoot-'em-up has translated stunningly to the ugly but popular handheld, making fine use of the touch-pad: you touch areas of the bottom screen, for example, to transform Samus into her Morph ball or select rockets, and she moves with the D-Pad but looks and aims with the stylus. You can even make her jump with a mere double-tap anywhere on the screen. Metroid Prime: Hunters is surprisingly compromise-free: the levels are long and varied, the bosses as evil and freaky-looking as ever, and you still end each level in a timed race back to your ship. Best of all, you can play against random people via Wi-Fi. This is a grown-up game for the DS, and is an essential purchase.