Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter / adventure game for the Nintendo DS developed by NST, a Redmond-based first-party developer for Nintendo and released in 2006. Like its predecessor Metroid Prime, it is officially classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter due to the large exploration element in the game. In the Metroid series, Hunters is the third first-person game, the second multiplayer game, and the first online multiplayer game. Chronologically, Hunters takes place between Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, making Metroid Prime 3: Corruption actually the fourth in the Metroid Prime series.