Impact Crater (theme)



Impact Crater is the theme of the area of the same name in Metroid Prime. It is heard in most of the area (except for the Crater Entry Point, which plays General InterWorld Elevator) up until the Phazon Infusion Chamber, when the battle with Metroid Prime begins. The theme contains bubbling and Phazon-related sound effects. It is remixed for the Metroid Mania Mini-Game in Metroid Prime Pinball, though curiously does not play on the Impact Crater table.

In New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes and the Metroid Prime Trilogy version of Echoes, the Impact Crater theme is reused for certain Phazon-rich rooms on Dark Aether containing Dark Tallon Metroids, including the Phazon Pit, Phazon Grounds and Phazon Site. In the Nintendo GameCube version of Echoes, the standard themes for the respective areas would play in those rooms.

The theme from Prime and Echoes can be heard here, and the theme from Pinball here.