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It failed completely at being a Metroid game. It's obvious the single-player "story" was just hastily hacked together from the multiplayer mode.
Maps were linear, without any kind of secrets or exploration. They were mostly boring corridors between multiplayer arenas for fights against bots.
The only abilities were different coloured guns, and while the MP trilogy gives the four beams specific properties to interact with the environment, I can't remember what most Hunters guns were supposed to do beside opening corresponding doors.
There were three boring and mostly static bosses in the whole game, two of them copy pasted once to make it last a bit longer.
I don't even think its controls or arena map design felt like Metroid Prime. The very limited Metroid Prime 2 multiplayer felt more like "competitive Metroid Prime". It was more fun to me anyway, not that I'd buy a Metroid game for multiplayer.
I think this is all fair criticism. I played this game when I was 12, after all, and did mostly play the multiplayer after a single run through of the story.
Also important to note that I hadn't actually played the mainline Prime games yet at that time, that probably had a lot to do with it.