For those of you who have forgotten, my name is Stads, and I do video game reviews, I haven't done one in forever because I was in another country, and saving up for a playstation 3 (those things are expensive.) For those of you who hardly ever read this blog because we rarely post, screw you guys, video games aren't cheap, and neither are movies. Though movies are admitedly much less costly than video games, what the hell shandeaux? The whole point of this otherwise pointless venture into blogging is that we're just average joes who enjoy movies and video games, and think we actually might know a little more than those so called "professional reviewers." I will step off my soap box now, it was slippery up there anyway.
On to Metal Gear Solid 4, the so called "must have PS3 title." The game that everyone said was going to save the playstation. Well they were wrong, Sony can save the Playstation only though Blue-ray. Metal Gear Solid 4 is not an inherently bad game, it just happens to be more of a movie than a video game. A very impressive movie at that, but still a movie. This is one of those games that Sony up in their tower, will probably never drop the price on, and I'm telling you, it is not worth 60 dollars. The game has roughly 10 hours of cutscenes, and somewhere around 10 hours of gameplay. This means, you are watching the game as much as you are playing it. I got the impression that good ol' Hideo just had too much left that he wanted to say. Registration is bad, war is harmful, aging is ok, the messages go on and on. Normally I like a game with plot too. I want to know why I want to kill this guy with a mustache and someone else's arm that controls his thought(what?) But the story just makes no sense! It never has, either, and the gameplay has always made up for it, but in my mind this time, there was just too much preaching. To me, it was like watching Fight Club, after everyone else told you it was a really great movie. You finish the movie, and are confused, wondering how it was good. Finally you decide it must have been good, because that's what everyone else said, and you don't want to sound stupid.
I know that if anyone actually read this blog, all these die-hard Metal Gear fans would be jumping down my throat, Kojima is a genius, the game is brilliant. Well of course you people like it, you're hardcore Metal Gear fans. You were so invested in the first game, that you've been living off it's good will ever since. It's like season one of Lost, it was great, so great in fact that it has kept people watching crap for 3 more seasons. That is a little unfair, Metal Gear Solid 2 was also good, providing as you didn't play as Raiden.
The only true way to enjoy the game is to skip past every single cutscene, which will of course leave you wondering why you're crawling through the Middle East, but still it's better than wondering why you're crawling through the middle east picking up weapons for a hairless monkey. The replay value is actually pretty good, if you're the type who like to collect achievements (trophies, sorry Sony.) And I have to say for once a game that lets you change difficulty's in a continued game.
I feel I have to comment on Metal Gear Online, at least a little. My main problem with it was that you have to jump through ten different hoops before you can play, download a huge patch, install a huge patch, mail in a letter signed in triplicate and notarized, kill you first born son, etc. You can't even use your Playstation Network ID, you have to make one through them. Playstation 3 is capable of inredible graphics, but it doesn't seem capable of a decent multiplayer experience.
In the end, if you're bored with the other Playstation 3 games that are actually well done, like Uncharted, and you have spare cash, Metal Gear Solid 4 is worth it, simply because the graphics will leave you speechless. But if you own any other console, I really would recommend not buying this title, Playstation is going to have to come up with a different "must have" exclusive title. I have faith some great ones are coming.
Rating 7/10
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