The way all Metal Gear games should be, as tactical as it gets!
Many people have been disappointed by MGA, because of the card battle system, but I was not disappointed by it, I simply love it! I have played all Metal Gear games, from the old ones on the good old’ MSX system to MGS3 on PS2 and I can tell you that Metal Gear was always about Tactics not Action! And this is exactly what this game most focuses on. The point of this game is not to kill most enemies, but it is to sneak around the levels and not be seen, use your weapon only in critical situation.
The only thing that I didn’t like was the bad story and the comic like cutscene’s and no voice casting
But missions are fun to do and I didn’t care much about the story, my goal was to get all the cards in my huge collection!
Of course if you have played Metal Gear Solid games on the PSone or PS2 on easy difficulty level, you won’t even understand what I’m talking about, because when playing on the easy difficulty level, you can simply shoot everyone and run away and don’t care bout your life level, but if you are playing on the Extreme difficulty level, you will precisely understand what I am talking about!
After playing MGA I got much better in MGS2 and MGS3 ;)