The Volt Driver is the Bounty Hunter Kanden's weapon of choice, featured in Metroid Prime Hunters.
Description[]
The Volt Driver is also an additional weapon system for the Arm Cannon. It fires quick-moving electrical blasts with a fast rate of fire and spray capability. When fully charged, the weapon fires a large, slow-moving explosive sphere of energy that causes massive damage to a target.
When used by the Bounty Hunter Kanden or the Prime Hunter, the Volt Driver's charge blast homes in on a target and temporarily disrupts the visor of whomever it hits. The Volt Driver is strong against Weavel and other enemies that use the Battlehammer or similar attacks, as well as Gorea when it turns yellow. When used by a character other than Kanden, it colors the markings on the user's Arm Cannon yellow. The Volt Driver was created along with Kanden and his Stinglarva in the Enoema Living Weapons project.
Official data[]
Logbook entry[]
Volt Driver
The VOLT DRIVER draws energy from the planetary electromagnetic field and converts it into multi-terawatt bursts of HIGH VOLTAGE.
Metroid Prime Hunters manual[]
- Volt Driver
- "The Volt Driver shoots high-velocity, rapid-fire energy blasts with a very high hit probability. This weapon's Charge Attack launches an aerobomb that moves slowly toward its target. If the aerobomb strikes the target, it causes tremendous damage."
- Kanden
- Weapon - Volt Driver
- "When a charged Volt Driver strikes its target, the target's vision is temporarily distorted."
Metroid Prime Hunters: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide[]
- VOLT DRIVER
- "Kanden wasn't the only creation of the Enoema Living Weapons project. Like the bounty hunter who wields it, the Volt Driver is a living weapon that incorporates DNA from several different creatures that specialize in surviving hostile environments. Its hard exoskeleton protects a gelatinous body that is capable of transforming energy from a planet's magnetic field into waves of high-voltage electricity. The Volt Driver can then discharge that energy as high-velocity energy blasts."
Metroid Prime Hunters acquisition message[]
"VOLT DRIVER FOUND
You've obtained the VOLT DRIVER. This weapon draws energy from the planetary electromagnetic field and converts it into multi-terawatt bursts of HIGH VOLTAGE."
Behind the scenes[]
Like the Metroid Prime version of the Wave Beam, the Volt Driver appears to fire some form of artificial ball lightning, a self-sustaining globe of electrical energy that is occasionally reported to "follow" living creatures and very rarely detonates with explosive force when touched. Although reliable eye-witness accounts confirm ball lightning's existence and similar phenomena have been produced using a wide variety of technological methods, its exact nature and cause remain unknown.
Trivia[]
- Certain objects will show "HIGH VOLTAGE" in the description when scanned. This always refers to the Volt Driver.
- High Voltage is also the name of a MOD in Metroid Prime: Federation Force.
- In the Alimbic Prophecy, the Volt Driver is referred to as Yellow Lightning.
- The Volt Driver has the second-fastest rate of fire of any weapon in Metroid Prime Hunters, the first being the Power Beam.
- Apart from the Imperialist, which is a hitscan (instant-hit) weapon, the Volt Driver rounds travel the fastest of all weapons in Metroid Prime Hunters.
- The sound effect used when one has been hit by the Volt Driver and is suffering from impaired vision is similar to the one that plays when either mode is started up in Hunters (specifically, when one has selected a file on the Samus Data Screen or right before a multiplayer match starts).
- Since the Volt Driver draws energy from a planet's electromagnetic field, it may be possible that it could increase or decrease in power depending on the planet its user is on. The weapon's power remains exactly the same on all locales visited in Hunters however, from planets like Alinos and Arcterra to space stations that may not have electromagnetic fields at all such as the Vesper Defense Outpost and Outer Reach.
- If a charged Volt Driver shot is hit by another weapon, then both projectiles will disappear. However, the Shock Coil cannot trigger this effect, as it will not lock onto the projectiles.
| Beams | |
|---|---|
| Armaments | Arm Cannon • Paralyzer |
| Weapons | Power Beam • Wave Beam • Ice Beam • Plasma Beam • Grapple Beam Hyper Beam: (MD/MP3/SM) • Phazon Beam • Dark Beam • Light Beam Annihilator Beam • Nova Beam • Zero Laser |
| Enhancements | Beam Burst • Charge Beam • Diffusion Beam • Long Beam • Phazon bullets • Spazer Beam • Tractor beam • Wide Beam • Omega Cannon (Dread) |
| Affinity Weapons | Volt Driver • Battlehammer • Magmaul • Shock Coil • Judicator • Imperialist • Omega Cannon (Hunters) • Electro Lob |