A fantastic movie! oh wait its a video game?

User Rating: 8 | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Platinum) PS3
By efoxneo | Review Date:
I am going to try to make this quick. I have played every Metal Gear game, and in many different versions. My favorite of the series was by far the first Metal Gear Solid made for PS, PC, and the remake done on the Gamecube. I think I may have finished the original 30 or so times, under 3 hours as well, it was a great balance of gameplay and cutscene, and may be my favorite video game of all time. Then, Hideo Kojima decided to become a director instead of a game producer and made the great (although kinda crazy at times) movies Metal Gear 2, 3, and now 4. These "games" have a huge Japanese flair and grand story telling, and the cutscenes in MGS4 have some of the greatest action scenes outside of Hollywood. The gameplay however is so limited I sometimes forget to pick up my controller to press X or R1 to see flashbacks and things in first person. I just beat the game on Normal this morning and of course didn't skip any cutscenes. It took just under 20 hours, and If I skip every cutscene in the game I know it will less then a third of that in gameplay, maybe less then a quarter if I'm quick. If you want to play MGS4, I suggest at least playing MGS1, and after that everything else almost gets explained through cutscenes anyways, almost as if I didn't need to play the second or third games. If you want to know about actual gameplay in more detail, go to Gamespots review, it was about right on, and I cannot complain about it much, outside of the fact that it takes a lot of 7.62 rounds to kill a human sometimes, so go for headshots when you can. The story comes to a huge end to the entire series, but for some reason, I think there will be more to come for our main characters.

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