Amazing story, amazing gameplay, amazing graphics, this is the best game I've played ever!
Now on to MGS4...
Metal Gear Solid 4 is as I said the best game I've ever played.
Story:
Unfortunately this is the last game in the series that Hideo Kojima will direct :/ but anyways, this time around it's Solid Snake's last run and he's going down with the best story I've seen in a game. He's rapidly aging as everyone knows, I'm not going to spoil anything. For people who like the franchise and have played the other games and are a little confused about what was happening. Have no fear Metal Gear Solid 4 is here to tie up all the loose ends and everything. The story is FULL of emotion and is executed so well. Rarely you'll hear some lame dialouge.
Gameplay:
Gameplay is a lot better. They fixed all of the things that made the controls occasionally awkward. Aiming is now over-the-shoulder, you can actually move while aiming and if you want you can look down the sights of your guns. Sneaking is a lot better now, with the added addition of being able to run/walk while crouched. while prone you can crawl fast or move inch by inch by lightly moving the joysitck forward. This helps not being seen by enemies and so on. The very new addition: the Octocamo is amazing! just simply amazing, it makes sneaking a hell of a lot more fun (not to say the other games sneaking was bad, it was still fun). It kills Splinter Cell which I always found to be boring beyond belief. There's a lot of really cool things you can do, such as when prone, pressing triangle will cause Snake to flip on his back and you can shoot while doing this. Your arsenal of weapons is very big. You can still roll and so on, and over all the game play is amazing and vastly improved.
Graphics:
Simply put, the graphics are god....
a LOT of detail on the characters and textures. Though you will sometimes see some occasionally bad looking textures.
Sound:
Sound is amazing as well, voice cast is still amazing as always with no one but I think one character with a different voice actor.
Online:
With amazing gameplay, the online is very fun, you can do everything you can do in the campaign except octocamo (unless you're playing sneaking mission) There are several game modes: Team Deathmatch, Deathmatch, Rescue (one flag capture with attackers and defenders), Capture (CTF), and Sneaking (one person is Snake and another is the Metal Gear Mk. II and they work together to take out people on red and blue teams and take their dog tags to score. Mk. II helps knock people out and Snake can take their tags, all the while a team deathmatch is looking for Snake and fighting each other.) The online is very great, not a lot of lag, varied guns to satisfy everyone's urges and so on. My only complaint is registering and the fact you can only have ONE free character.
Overall:
THIS GAME IS GOD! :D