I still don't understand why people keep thinking MP is an out and out FPS... IT ISN'T!
I guarantee you that the people who state that MP is an FPS will also state that the previous metroid games are 3rd person shooters.
Is that what you think Null, that Super Metroid is an out and out 3rd person shooter? I should think not. And if you don't (hopefully), then you should understand from 'all' the impressons given, that MP not only 'plays', but 'feels' like previous metroid games...
Hence, if SM is a 3rd person adventure with shooting elements, then MP is an FPA with shooting elements. You cannot seriously tell me that all first person games are shooters. Look at Enclave for instanse, it hasn't even a trace of out and out shooting elements, yet it has a first person view as an option.
That should quash any of your reservations.
