What can you say about this game but wow,
Games today are lacking this next gen quality a few have it but some seem to lack it (Haze)...
Haze was a game which promised to beat halo it had hype we were told it had everything but we were sadly mistaken, i like halo quite abit but i really prayed for this game to own halo but sadly it failed.
Anyway Metal Gear Solid 4, If you played the previous games you would know how much this game meant to the fans and how Hideo Kojima had to get this perfect.
This game is set a few years into the future from where mgs2 left off.
Liquid.... snakes brother has become a powerful war lord and snake is once again hired to take down liquid. Which is perfect beacuse it ties in with the rest of the metal gear solid games, and it gives you that sense of satisfaction and love for a game.
Many sites have given a metal gear a poor story but how can you give a game which has years of experience leading to this climax finale, you have the cold war with big boss, you have outside members joining in and creating an epic story which you would see in a hollywood blockbuster.
We are given games like halo where you got to stop this activation of rings in space. And aliens are trying to activate them and you are a hero in a suit.Or a soldier in the army stopping terrorists. And the plots are simple where MGS, offers a complex story that needs to be followed carefully and many reviewers dont like this so they review the story as mediocre. and which Is really quite shocking.
We also have old cast members appearing such as meryl snakes love in metal gear solid. Who is same as ever "hard faced". But the character depth is much greater in this game than the predercessors we are given more facts of the characters from were they have been since the last games and how there life has changed ect.
Most games fail to add depth to their characters but focus on action, but metal gear solid does deliver and incredible story combined with depth which hideo pulls of amazingly.
We are also given new members to the metal gear franchise such as drebin the arms dealer and the bosses for the game.
Graphically this game is a benchmark for other games, from terrain, to characters the graphics are superb.
One problem i do face though....Do next gen graphics have to be water washed and look bland. Lets take Gears of war and killzone, the games look grey, and xbox fan boys ive mentioned killzone also ok.....Is this the price for a perfect game i dont think so, but apart from that the graphics are beautiful.
Metal Gear solid has always deliverd incredible boss battles which rack your brain in understanding how to defeat the boss, like psycho mantis in metal gear solid truelly incredible fight. This game offers the same feeling and satisfaction to the players.
The game is'nt like the others we have new stealth systems the (octo cam) which is a general snake suit but changes colour to the surrounding environments also we can add masks to our characters like metal gear solid 3. Such as bosses, snake from MGS1, Raiden and many others.
We are also offerd the ingame weapon customization which truelly changes metal gear solid. We are given the chance to make and buy superb weapons. There are so many custimizations it is pretty much endless.
And you would think this is it but nope, we are also given free online play, well kind of online you have to pay for more character slots but fine by me :)
Online you can buy new equipment from psn and customize characters to liking. To me it is rather a difficult online shooter you try putting mgs style game to a call of duty universe its hard but not poor its still better than haze.
But for an overall product it is a must buy for ps3 owners and none owners go out and buy a ps3 for this is a must have for any serious gamer.