Well it is what it is.Its a good game, but It wasnt mind blowing and Iam a MGS fanatic.
First off,The graphics are next gen and they look great.Some reviews here on Gamespot state that MGS4 graphics are bad,but their not.The lighting on the enviroments to the characters is great.Every single wolrd is detail,to the characters and their outfits and expressions.If you play a next gen game make sure you got an HDTV and the right cables for it,thats the only reason I got for people bashing on MGS4 graphics cause they really are truly beutiful.
The control are perfect.Aiming is accurate as if you were firing a real machine gun.Well it might tick some people that some controls been change,theyre not hard to get used too.But the game basicly is the same.I dont see why they would change it,in my opinion they could have been the same like previous Mgs4 games.
Now the story is still confusing.They are talking about.For example what the hell is the JD?It happens during most part of the story.Its like they keep making up its own rules as the story moves along.In other words its too technical.Its not bad,the problem is like I said its to techinical,they should had seen it and had to simplify it.Now the other bad part is that the cutscenes are too long.Way too long,that I never played this game on weekdays,cause I have to work and when I simply want to play a game not watch a movie.I sweat the cutscnenes are so long when they are done I have to go to sleep.Thats why I played on weekends only.Now the story is about Solid Snake havent age in an abnormal way.His aging has sped up and he is dying.While with that condition he still to stop Ocelot?Liquid Snake from becoming big boss.
The voice acting is great,not must to complain about here cause there is nothing to complain about it.The score to me is not memorble but its not bad,it keeps almost the same as previous Metal gears.
Now the problem I have with is the gameplay.Something that I usually notices by Japanese devolop games.During the whole time I felt like I was being force to play the game as they wanted me to,not like I want to.Why give Snake the gears of war behind the shoulder camera angle and not being able to use it because they want to use stealth to reach my goal.SOmetimes I felt like just go guns blazing just to speed up the gameplay,well I could do that.Then I have to deal with hordes of guards coming after me and they wont stop until I try to loose them.Its like iam being force to just used stealth.Why give Snake all those machine guns,weak custimze weopons feature if all they want me to do is to sneack around.Mostly the guns are used to fight bosses.Now the boss battles are the most boring in any of the Metal gearsI think thats one thing that remains last gen the boss battles,everything is next gen but the boss battles are not.This is how they are boring.They are slow.The whole concept of the boss battles with the three girls is trying to find the target,and when you find it take care of buissness.This part the developers didnt took full advanatges of the boss battles.I meant they wouldnt had been so boring if they been a little bit faster to complete.They should have made them more Like God of war grand scale battles,not just find the target and shoot her and then watch her dissapear and find her again.
Okay this is a good game.I did like it I just wish the developers would have done things much better,more player friendly.I think only Metal Gear fans would only appreciate this game,from the story perspective.If your just here want to play it for just the gameplay,then this is a good stealth game.If you want to start getting into the MGS frenzy i recomend you find the original Metal gear or play the remake for the gamecube.