Last Month, mikthom from manoamondo.com says (in Metroid Prime & Citizen Kane: Technical Empathy Considered) Like Kane, Metroid Prime coalesces all of the core strengths of video games and places them in a structure that is built around empathy. It’s not cinematic empathy, nor is it story-driven. Instead, it’s driven by direct experience, which is the first and most immediate language of any game....

And Michael McWhertor from Kotaku says (in Is Metroid Prime The Citizen Kane Of Video Games?) If Orson Welles' groundbreaking, multiple award winning film Citizen Kane has an analogous counterpart in the video game space, one ABC News report argues that it's Nintendo's Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Nintendo's Video Game Masterpiece [ABC via GoNintendo]