Aug 26 2010Oh Hai Samus!: Sweet Live-Action Metroid Ad

This is an awesome live-action commercial for Metroid: Other M, which is dropping next week on the Wii. What's the other M? MOTHERBRAIN! Or maybe just mother. Or -- OR -- Moosetracks ice cream. Yes I just crushed a whole gallon and have the feeling it's gonna be a soupy stool day aside, great job with the commercial, guys. Also, I hope you know I was only kidding about the whole ice cream thing. It was Rocky Road.
Hit the jump for the must-see commercial, as well as two other worthwhile videos of Samus telling her backstory (with lots of old gameplay footage).
Commercial:
Samus's Birth:
Samus's Story:
Gameplay Footage:
Thanks to silvermidnight, who beat bronzemidnight by more than a full second.
Related Stories
Mario Game Trailer In The Style Of GTA (12/15/2010)
Yes Please!: Samus Aran's Zero Suit (08/18/2008)
Luke I Am Your Lorax: Seuss/Star War Mashup (12/03/2010)
Quality Cosplay: Samus' Other M Gravity Suit (11/27/2010)

Reader Comments
1. Edwin - August 26, 2010 11:49 AM
I am so excited for this game.
Man, Nintendo might as well just take my wallet this year. :|
2. Tennist0 - August 26, 2010 11:49 AM
Hawt
3. che-che - August 26, 2010 12:03 PM
the other m is mooseknuckle.
4. constantine lee - August 26, 2010 12:05 PM
Coolllllllllll, is it a pot movie???
5. billy bob - August 26, 2010 12:09 PM
wait metroid is a women ?
6. (-.-) OJ's Mom (-.-) - August 26, 2010 12:10 PM
M = Missing Titties
7. The guy in fourth is a firstard - August 26, 2010 12:18 PM
I am very happy in my pants
8. Brain - August 26, 2010 12:23 PM
I like Boobs :D
9. Frank van Vuuren - August 26, 2010 12:23 PM
Woa! Child-friendly and boner-crushing Nintendo made this?
10. Samus - August 26, 2010 12:26 PM
@5 No samus is a woman lol
11. Arekusandora - August 26, 2010 12:33 PM
I'm in lesbians with her.
12. Iaruk - August 26, 2010 1:01 PM
@9, nope Team Ninja is making this.. :)
13. Matt - August 26, 2010 1:03 PM
In the video titled "Samus Story" it goes straight from Super Metroid to The Other M....does that mean Nintendo is disregarding the "Prime" series as part of the actual story? That would be kinda cool....
14. Gosh!!! - August 26, 2010 1:21 PM
sooo.... anyone knows who she is?
Looks familiar
The actress I mean, don't be smartassing me saying "she is Samus =D"
15. Soopa_Koopa - August 26, 2010 1:22 PM
@13 All of the games in the series are part of the timeline. However this particular game takes place immediately after "Super Metroid" and before the Prime Trilogy.
16. Kefka Palazzo - August 26, 2010 1:27 PM
The Metroid timeline is as follows:
Metroid (Zero Mission)
Metroid Prime
Mteroid Prime: Hunters
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Super Metroid
Metroid: Other M
Metroid Fusion
Now you know. And that's half of, uh, something.
17. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Yippie - August 26, 2010 1:43 PM
does any one else hate wii controls as much as i do?
18. PonyTats - August 26, 2010 1:51 PM
Eh? That skinny, malnourished-looking chick makes for a very unconvincing intergalactic bounty hunter. Awful choice.
19. Shelbon - August 26, 2010 2:02 PM
@5 Metroid is an alien, Samus is a woman.
20. Jeremy - August 26, 2010 2:02 PM
@16 I've never known the timeline before. That's interesting. So where does "Metroid Pinball" fit into that chronology?
21. Shelbon - August 26, 2010 2:11 PM
@18 Who cares she hott. STFU and enjoy the cosmic eye candy
22. Mayo - August 26, 2010 2:23 PM
@18 Clearly you couldn't see the video as you were trapped under the fat rolls of your ideal woman.
23. Chaos Hellbound - August 26, 2010 2:26 PM
@11 You made my day haha.
24. Shelbon - August 26, 2010 2:31 PM
Samus has a tight vag...just ask Tom Hanks
25. PonyTats - August 26, 2010 2:31 PM
Her pipe-cleaner arms couldn't carry shopping, let alone a plasma cannon. It's called bad casting.
And no - her teenage-boy physique doesn't do it for me. Flesh is sexy, bones are not.
26. Osaka - August 26, 2010 3:03 PM
@17 Other M will get to be controlled like old school snes games
and not with the motion stuff... So i don't really get why you'd hate it
27. JJtoob - August 26, 2010 3:13 PM
All that technology and she didn't know how much time it had passed?
28. BillClinton - August 26, 2010 3:20 PM
@25 I have your sexy flesh AND bone right here!!
29. q335r49 - August 26, 2010 4:15 PM
More like, Metroid, other KRATOS GOD OF WAR amiright? :-/ :-/
30. Dank1 - August 26, 2010 4:17 PM
really though...who is that girl playing Samus? Not sure if its my lack of researching skills or if they just are not listing it anywhere.
31. Donk Donkerson - August 26, 2010 4:33 PM
Looks like Nintendo borrowed some stuff from God of War. Definitely not gonna complain.
32. DolbyFighter - August 26, 2010 5:36 PM
@29 Absolutely, that's the first thing I thought when I saw the first couple flashes of gameplay in the first video.
Congratulations Wii gamers, you may have gotten your first big kid game.
33. DolbyFighter - August 26, 2010 5:37 PM
@29 Absolutely, that's the first thing I thought when I saw the first couple flashes of gameplay in the first video.
Finally a reason to get a Wii? Maybe.
34. mayday22 - August 26, 2010 5:53 PM
@30 She kinda looks like Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard of Andy Griffith show & Happy Days fame daughter. I think Opie directed some shit to. Not sure why she would be in a Metroid commercial but the resemblance is uncanny.
35. Frank Glover - August 26, 2010 6:05 PM
Look what the catsuit dragged in...
36. Kaka Face - August 26, 2010 8:43 PM
@ the too skinny comments.... The suit handles all the crazy strength and agility.
The actress looks a lot like Bryce Dallas Howard. I.E. the girl from The Village and Lady in the Water. She's hella cute with or w/o a little weight in her.
Game controls like old school until it goes 1st person. That's when the motion crap comes in. Hate wiu, but psyched for this.
37. Shiyan202 - August 26, 2010 9:58 PM
@DolbyFighter They have No More Heroes for the wii do your research before you make yourself look stupid. Fan boy.
38. What he said - August 26, 2010 10:42 PM
@37 Don't forget Madworld
But don't ya'll think the graphics can be a little better? Just asking
39. James - August 27, 2010 2:09 AM
@17 i hate them to! they are terrible! the gamecube controls were the best ones by far.
looks like a great game.
40. isabelle - August 27, 2010 5:38 AM
(In the live action commercial) Samus' suit is already super skinny for a heavy armored suit. The arms and legs of that thing are tiny! Can you imagine how skinny the person in that suit would have to be to fit it? XD
41. Bobby - August 27, 2010 8:50 AM
For all you chubby chasers complaining about her skinny arms and her inability to be a bounty hunter: she has Chozo DNA which gives her super strength.
42. bunaah - August 27, 2010 10:23 AM
i have a bonner
43. BlackSamTX - August 27, 2010 1:44 PM
January Jones?
44. DH - August 28, 2010 7:42 PM
@41 thank you. you beat me to the punch.
I am THE biggest metroid fanatic and this game looks UNREAL. all those classic metroid moments in fcking amazing cinematics... I just jizzed, like a lot.
PUMPED.
45. BIGSAMPSON - August 29, 2010 1:39 PM
"she has Chozo DNA " stfu nerd....the need to explain is retarded. Lets just go with its a dam video game and she is a hot intergalactic slut!
46. toyboat - August 30, 2010 6:49 PM
I hate the wii controls too.
47. Racer X - August 30, 2010 7:48 PM
That chick is FLAT!
48. luxury moblie phone - August 30, 2010 9:08 PM
Thanks for so beautiful posting.keep going,You have gained a new reader,
49. SpazMatazzShabazz - August 30, 2010 11:47 PM
At least they caster Samus better than they did Prince of Persia.
50. Dez - August 31, 2010 3:10 PM
@25 Yay for women who look realistic and not like barbies.
51. Ed - August 31, 2010 4:03 PM
When is the movie coming out? I'd see it.
52. Switcher - August 31, 2010 5:37 PM
Samus is and has always been a women if i remember correctly.
53. Knowledge - September 1, 2010 3:04 PM
i believe the actresses name is January Jones
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2322044672/nm0005064
54. 22 - September 2, 2010 9:18 PM
I highly doubt it's January Jones. January is much bigger (she's in Mad Men and has to maintain a slightly fuller figure because of the era it's based on) and older looking. The woman is obviously very altered though - from behind everything about her looks fake. I'd say even if it is J. Jones, it's almost not right to say it IS her because all they've used is a few shots of someone's face and then gone and altered the crap out of them (and everything else).
55. Sally - September 3, 2010 5:05 PM
OOh I just saw this on TV and my sister's like "Oh look, a female Iron man." and I'm like "Noooo it's Metroid! And that there is Samus. And it's a frickn' video game!"
56. sam - September 6, 2010 7:38 PM
her name is January Jones
57. Emm - September 7, 2010 3:33 AM
Umm...i dont think thats January Jones at all...the chick in the commercial is hotter, thinner, younger, and her facial structure is different...damn i wish i knew this actress's name.
58. anon6500 - September 7, 2010 8:38 PM
It looks like the girl from Cold Case, Kathryn Morris http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606700/ , only a miniature version....
59. redcow - September 8, 2010 11:31 PM
Isnt that Kristen Bell???http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068338/
60. Jimmy - September 12, 2010 4:22 AM
Has anybody found out who the girl in the metroid other m commercial is yet?
61. Sven - September 12, 2010 4:37 AM
naaa. sems impossible to find out...
i wrote NOA customer service and got this in response:
Thank you for writing. I appreciate your interest in Nintendo and its advertising. While I would like to be able to provide the information you seek, we use a variety of advertising and talent agencies to provide the actors hired to fill the parts in our commercials. Therefore, we do not have access to any specific information about any of the actors.
Sincerely,
Nintendo of America Inc.
62. Jimmy - September 12, 2010 6:03 AM
@Sven thanks for the reply. It is kind of odd that a company doesn't know the specifics on actors or actresses they use in the product's commercials.
63. andres nicolas gherscovici - September 12, 2010 8:46 PM
yo conosco varias actrises en coplay que se iso al personaje samus aran en mi lista
*January Jones(comercial de metroid other m)
*roberta murgo(la modelo playboy samus brasil)
*jennie kallberg(coplayer suecia)
*jennifer hale(doblaje samus aran o metal gear soild 4)
*Kayne West(comercial metroid prime 2)
*yuki(coplayer brasilera)
64. Aiden - September 19, 2010 12:19 AM
im really looking for a costume and i want samus body sute for my costume... any suggestions where i could get one?
i've looked everywhere ; _ ;
65. Exziron - October 27, 2010 11:09 PM
OMG OMG I know who she is! !!!!!!! OMG!!!!!
She's Samus Aran.
:)
she's hot
66. Genodd - November 2, 2010 7:21 PM
Accoriding to another site and IMDb.com, the actress' name is Jessica Martin. Though personally, I think January Jones (at least from the pictures on IMDB) looks more like the girl in the commercial.