The game has way too many flaws for me to consider it the best of anything. It's actually a pretty thin game underneath the cutscenes with not much meat to it; it's pacing starts of moderately strong, but quickly descends into extreme uneveness (Acts 3 and 4 are dominated with cutscenes too the point of ridiculousness and the mission breifings are WAY too damn long), the controls are still rather cumbersone, though improved; the boss fights are good, but much worse than MS3; the story is aimless and meandering with a serious lack of economy (not that MGS is exactly known for that), much worse than MGS3's story.
Not to mention that its 4/5 environments are more bland than 3, 2, an 1's more cohesive environments. And stealth is even less neccesary than previous games. You could almost say the game was casualized if you're the kind of person that uses that term.
Lastly, the is far less variety in the scenarios than previous games.
It's gunplay is much improved from previous games, but it in that category, it has nothing on a game like Uncharted 2.
That being said, it has a kick ass armory and cool stuff to play with. It was amazing how many guns there were to choose from. Nice customization too.
Honestly, I don't get the hype concerning this game. There's nothing about it that seems undeniaby above and beyond other games. There's games that have a much better story, there's game with much better visuals, there are games with much better gunplay, there are games with deeper stealth elements, there are games with much better controls, there are games with much better pacing, there are games with setpieces just as good.
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