Immersive - Highly Addictive - Terrible - Just Wrong!
After completing MGS4 I felt annoyed, frustrated and depressed - what a terrible game - "for shame!". For a long time now PlayStation 3 owners have been talking about a gap, a deficit - often mentioning that the PS3 has a much more powerful but un-tapped potential for graphical capabilities and many reviewers have commented that 'it is only a matter of time before this gap is filled' - 'when the Cell Broadband Procesor is finally properly utilised' - and only then will the PS3 stride ahead of the XBOX360, but it never came, and with games like Killzone 2 being postponed untill 2009, it seemed that the wait wasnt worth it - and I always agreed with them. When it comes down to it - playing a game like MGS4 on your PS3 just makes you feel bad - disheartened.
You feel guilty - because you know your best friend down the street, with his brand new XBOX360 Elite, will never experience anything nearly amazing as the cascade of beautiful 1080p graphics, hair raising crystal clear surround sound and world-consuming sharply told story-line that hits you like a ton of bricks before you evan get to a chance to 'volume down' button on your remote.
True PS3 Performance is now here - and hopefully is here to stay.
When I bought the original XBOX, i resented it at first, being a huge PS2 fan, but as with many, Halo won me over, not Halo 2, Halo. MGS4 is the PlayStation 3's Halo!
I dislike MGS4 because the wise-men at Konami have created a masterpeace so good that every time I pay money for a PS3 game in the future I'm going to feel like I didn't get my money's worth- and Killzone 2 which I have been looking forward to more than any other game for a few years now is just not going to blow my mind in they way I have been waiting for, because, in all honesty, although I think those guys at Gorilla are wizards with graphics, there is just not much to improve on.
Feel sorry for all the game developers out there that have to live with this game - that have this game in mind when going to work every day and looking sadd at the quality of graphics in the game that they are developing, as they know they dont have the programming skill of technical prowess that Konami had when making this game.
MGS4 annoys me as I know there will be some people out there in the world with a PS3 that will never own their own copy, wasting the full potential of a console they have just payed so much money for.
MGS4 is terrible as I know my final grade for this year at University is not going to be as high as it would of been if I had never taken that fateful stroll down to the video ame store.
I feel depressed knowing there are some people out there who will not appreciate this game to it full,there are some people who will never realise how much fun they can actually have on a video games console.
Finally, MGS4 is frustrating - I sat down at 11AM one day, 11AM the next day I realised I was in the same spot, I HAD WASTED AN ENTIRE DAY AND NOT EVAN FINISHED THE GAME I HADE STARTED PLAYING 24Hrs BEFORE!
MGS4 as a game is probably the most 'complete' game I have played in a long time, complete meaning - all the weapons just feel so well balanced and thought out, for instance a Scout-Knife a newer version of the AK-74 and a Javelin Anti-Take missile all all as effective and all equally as fun in taking out a single enemy unit - not many games can boast that, or the fact that the game is so powerful, letting you wipe out an entire Chalk of the Elite 'Frogs' with no sweat, or the fact later on you just wade through a forrest of miniature bi-pedal tanks called Gekko's that earlier on in the game you see as invincable. Many game developers talk candidly about embowering the gamer, many talk about it, Konami just do it!
Many people in my opinion underestimate how inportant sound i in a game, and I myself thought 'whats the big deal' when a Dolby Digital logo popped up in the opening titles, believe me, it didnt take long before I knew what difference that made, I have to play this game with headphones in fear of giving my grandad a heart attack from flashbacks of World War II, thats how good this games sounds - it sounds like you need to 'duck and cover'
Don't buy this game - if you value your social developement as a person and want to keep your Girlfriend - Don't Buy This Game -
It's Terrible,
It's Just Wrong.