A better and more colorful acid trip.
The game starts off with snake in his plane while he lands at the airport he gets arrested. Then it starts off at the gate at a base where your mission starts.
If you never played the original or forgot how to play the game will give you a quick tutorial how to play the game. You notice one of the first improvements is you control Snake in the alloted blocks you have. In some missions though one you move Snake you can't take it back so it adds more strategy to the game.
Another thing you will notice right a way is the new graphics this really enjoy this game some more even if you play on the lowest brightness settings like me you still get a lot of enjoyment.
Of course there are new cards in this game some that help you in game some just to have with really no purpose. One more addition with the card system you can buy upgrades for your card to makes it stronger.
What hurts this game is that when its not your turns its still a long wait until the AI is done. The cut scenes are still all in text and in typical Metal Gear fashion they are long. Not as long like kojima work in the Solid series but enough to lose interest and want to skip though.
To include in this game is the solid eye viewer where you can play and watch videos in 3d.
The good: It works and there some girly cut sceens.
The Bad: Doesn't help with the game play, the Solid eye goggles are cheesy and falls apart easy, and it screws with your eyes.
Over all this game is better and makes you think that the guys at Kojima productions might be on to something. I recommend that you try this one out if you like metal gear or strategy games or if you a hard core fan.