The best in the series? Eat some Snake, come and find out.

User Rating: 9.7 | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater PS2
By Xerosnake90 | Review Date:
The third installment of the famous Metal gear solid series has finally reached consoles. Metal gear solid made famous the tactical espionage and stealth games as we know it. Introducing the famous box and a plot filled with excitement and unpredictability. With its wacky boss fights, it tends to keep you at the edge of your seat. Metal gear solid 2 further introduced the stealth concept by allowing larger environments, crips graphics, and yet another storyline engaging with the first to resolve some conflicts about just, what the heck was going on! Metal gear solid 3 is the final solution to tie up just some of those bonds, or is it? Snake eater brings the largest amount of stealth gameplay you could ever hope for. The giant forest environment brings a great sense of natural survival to the table. With an assortment of over 20 types of camouflage and face paints, each brings to the table a different type of cover. Perhaps a nice woodland camouflage for the grass? Or maybe black camo for the mud. Or perhaps, you like to wear a sneaking suit to give you sense of an origional Snake. The main character, father of Solid and Liquid Snake, sets out to destroy the one and only, metal gear that threatens the land. Codename naked Snake, sent in to rescue a scientest named Sokolov, soon discovers this weapon and aquires a new mission to destroy the weapon. As the game moves forward, the player is taken through massive environments and gameplay which expands on the stealth sense.

Snake comes back with his usual assortment of weaponry, from silenced tranquilizers to the far away sniper rifle. All weapons are out for Snake's disposal of enemies, yet everything snake has, so do the enemies. Think a shotgun will help you in your mission? So will the guards, as they will use an assortment of heavy machine guns to rocket launchers and shotguns the same as yours against you. Adding the new injury system, the enemies could pump you full of lead stuck inside of your body, or maybe burn you through hatred as a rocket ignites near you. Using a knife to remove bullets and arrows. A cigar may be used to burn off leeches, or using stitches to sew up a knife wound. Another great excitement be the stamina system. Running through the woods with too much on you will not only have you burn stamina ALOT quicker, but with also through of your aim in the process as stamina affects these things. Hanging from a ledge, you'll fall quicker than you would with full stamina. To resolve this process? Hunt for food. Snakes, alligators, to even birds can be eaten to to restore your strength. Yet Snake may not like the taste of innocent animals to much... And moving onward to another addition is the sense of CQC, Close quarter combat. Tired of a normal punch punch kick combo? TAKE THEM OUT with a throwdown to the ground and an instant knockout, possibilites are endless after that...

So does Snake eater complete the series? Well that is up to you, the variety of gameplay and stealth action is enough for anyone to get into. And fans of the series will definetely dig the latest installment of metal gear solid.

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