Metal Gear Solid 4: video review for Sony PS3
June 12, 2008 | Filed under Game Video & Trailers, Gaming, Sony Playstation 3
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is the story of snake, who has become one of the most popular characters in the industry, is about to come to a close. We have all been teased with a number of trailers, but now we players can finally get to see how great this game is. MGS4 is both impressive and uncompromising, it’s sure to inspire just as much love, hate, discussion, and debate as any other game in the series. The genetically modified super snake has now been transformed into old Snake, this is due to a rapidly accelerated aging process, while battling this condition, Snake has to travel the globe in pursuit of his brother, Liquid.
The game starts of in the Middle East; it then moves to Latin America and then arrives at a key location in Metal Gear history. While wrestling with some heavy themes as well as following an old man trying to save the world before he bails out of it for good, Guns of the Patriots, lays every last card the series has left on the table. The game takes on questions from past titles as well as calling in every last character still standing to play their role in the game. It is so much to take in, even if you do enjoy the cut scenes, it is sometimes too much. The sometimes bloaty and messy effort to sort out the back story can completely eclipse the immediate plot as a result the games flow and urgency is damaged.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is a beast in terms of design, but it can still be described as a linear stealth action experience design, divided into several acts, and spanning about 5 different environments. Your objective in the game is to move from point-to-point in a pre-determined path in order to trigger your nest objective, in order to advance in the story. Maps are large, but yet still restrictive to the players movement. When you reach an objective marker, the odds are that something significant is about to happen.
You will make it through the game with the help of a few allies, most important being your friend and tech support guy Otacon. In addition to loaning out the mark two robots, which is capable of scouting out enemy positions and sometimes delivering the occasional electric shock, Otacon also hooks you up with the Solid Eye Imaging Device, and the user friendly Octo camo system, this automaticilly changes your camouflage pattern to your surrounding.
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Just played the 1st our of the game and so far awesome! I’ve missed the old fella!
I’ve played it for about an hour so far today and its amazing
Much and all as many product-reviews.net readers may already know, I hate you all; nothing personal (it’s not like I know you personally) but I hate fanboyism, amoung other things, being that I support all three consoles. I wanted to say that today was one of those rare days where I woke up and felt like I had a hangover from playing a video game until 3 in the morning…I started at 12 noon yesterday. I haven’t put that much time into a video game on it’s launch date with 2 exceptions; GTA IV and Halo 3.
Konami really did their work, and for the third time ever I feel like the the game was underpriced. Seriously. Halo 3 I would have paid $100 for and GTA IV maybe even $125. I’m not going to say how much I would have paid for MGS4 in fear of hating myself, but it’s right up there with Halo and GTA.
In-game-play graphics and physics looks 10 fold better than the cinematic cuts scenes from Blacksite: Area 51 and Haze put together (both flopped harded than a t-rex turd). That’s all I’ll say on that topic.
**Stop fanboyism; hang yourself**