Metal Gear Solid is crap. I dunno about the old ones but from what I played this is a series which belongs in the old NES days. I mean, there's this huge fan base and ppl talk about like it is some gaming experience out of any gaming genre they know but having 20 mins codec convos and cutscenes like a movie don't make a game great. Yet alone making a pacman stealth game worthy of an orchestral score. It does look cool and it have a distinct sense of style like any other game, it is immersive and all but what good is it when all i can see is from a above over the head perspective? It makes it impossible to play decently like you're wandering around and then some stupid drone sees you. Only way you got to avoid this kinda **** is hitting the fps button so you can see what's ahead of you. Constantly. It's RETARDED. It's like you're going blind trying to get past all these guys stealthy fashion. To compensate you have this radar but when you need it the most it disappears. And speaking of retarded the AI in this game is incredible. ly dumb. Like sometimes I put the fps view on and they're like 5 meters away from me staring at me and they can't see me. Yet they can spot footprints and walking cardboxes. Yea for a game that takes itself as seriously as having 40 minutes of cutscenes which take me 8 Xs to skip em all you can sneak across enemies by disguising yourself as a cardbox. Did I mention that this game has a military advisor? I wonder what did he thought of that. Make it a bush so it is like a warner cartoon or like sheep dog n wolf. Sometimes I shoot these guys with tranquilizers and it gets some time for em to realize they've been shot. It's like since the game is like stupid lets make all soldier drones even more stupid so you can play it and then all the struggle you must have is with the controls and bad design choices. While looking awesome and sounding awesome and having this really convuluted story which is too complicated for me to understand. I get it that you get a over the field view so it is more like the older games but **** it it is a ps2 game and you could always spot your enemies in the old ones cause it wouldn't pan the screen most of the time it would just be this frame where enemies would just follow their routines back and forth. Now there's all this talk about mgs4, and I ask what about it? ppl are getting crazy just because they started to make things right, it's like now you can sneak and walk while crouched instead of crouch and then sneaking prone on the floor. And everytime you'd want to slide along the wall it was a chore cause snake would do it even when you wouldn't ask for it. Another game that took some "ideas" from splinter cell cause that's what it is. It's like a MGS version of splinter cell which looks almost black and white. It used to look awesome but now it is all dusty and crap. Overall stop the hype like it was some kind of Star Wars of the gaming industry.