Just giving a brief summary of my progress and impressions on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the patriots. :)

Progress

Play Time: 6 hours.

Level: End act 2.

Boss Fights: 1.

I Think I'm slow, but I could be wrong. :P

A act took me 3 hours each so far. :o

Impressions

Story:

It's a little unclear to me, since I haven't played previous games of it. However it doesn't really seem to mess up my impression of the story. I have to say that I really am starting to like it. It's something very original to me. I love the characters, the voice acting (brilliant), the general body language (Astonishingly performed), The plot. (Exciting, the tense is tight all the time, long and sucks you in)

Yeah I wanna give arguments why I have these opinion but I gotta give spoilers for that and I'm too lazy to write so much. :roll:

Gameplay:

It's much better then I thought, the auto aim is kinda useless at times. :| Most of the time it doesn't even aim on the enemy unless I literally stand 10 feet away from them. Yeah... I prefer free aim. It's not as hard to aim descently as I thought. Now I'm getting pretty descent at this. I hope this will improve my free aim skills in GTA IV as well. :P

I love the whole sneaking part, I finally came to realise how important the element of surprise is (after have some neat difficulties in act 1 :(). It can save you so much trouble and fighting. And also decreases the trouble to do a headshot on stupid soldiers. :P

The wall hiding though... I wish it was possible to jump to a wall from a distance and hide like in GTA IV. Would make it even more fun for me. :) But it doesn't matter, as long as you're on your toes you probably won't need a heroic jump to get behind an object. :P

Hiding in boxes and cans is... weird but fun and effective. At least if you don't fall over like I do and roll against any wall there is and make as much noise that you could better just jump in the battlefield and say "Hey look at me! Come on! Shoot me!". :lol: :cry:

Graphics:

This is the most amazing aspect of the game. Combined with the wonderful environments, the greatly developed characters and plot elements the graphics make the game like a movie. Like I said in my previous blog this game has graphics that match up to those of FFX. :)

Boss Fights:

I had only one, but I have to say... they're not that hard once you find out how to fight the boss. Seriously I spent 30 minutes running yesterday searching for the damn first boss just to get 20 bullets on him. :o If I weren't so stupid not to turn on night vision and look at foot prints from the start the damn boss wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes against me! :x Who wasn't really that hard to beat.

It was a good boss fight. :) Something new and challenging.

Ok this wasn't really a quality impressions blog but I at least gave (some) of my impressions on the game. I surely do not regret buying it. :) Once I beat the game I'll go for the other difficulty levels. :) I started on the easiest since I wasn't really a shooter fan. :P But this kinda changed it. If call of duty 4 is also like this I might consider getting it as well. :)