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The product came exactly as described. Very good people to do business with. Was shipped quickly.
I think this is a great game. I bought this game for my fiance and I really enjoyed watching him play the game. The story line is excellent for both genders. The graphics are also very detailed and look incredible. It's full of excitement and you get very attached to the characters.
Take a couple more, another cinematic.Gameplay is fun, you are just inandated with long.long.long sequences of video. Often times in-game you take a few steps only to watch a cinematic. I bought the game to shoot stuff.Overall, its a pretty good game despite its long videos. I get about 10-15 mins in, occasionally I've watched the entire thing, but I end up skipping. Simple as that. Between campaigns there is almost 30 mins of cinematic. The fact that you can skip them and get to the makes up for that flaw, but keeps this review from 5 stars. At least you can skip through them.
I quit in the middle of act 3. In my opinion, a game sequel should be just as accessible for veterans of the franchise as it is for non-veterans. Checking items or swapping weapons required pausing/exiting the game often which took away from the immersion factor. It's the equivalent of someone pausing the game and showing you a movie (a bad movie) while it's paused. You have all sorts of gizmos to help you do this (most of which I didn't even bother using) including a combat suit that allows you to blend into your surroundings like a chameleon. I know the fans will skewer me, but I don't really care. Overall, this game has decent graphics and decent sound, but that wasn't enough for me to keep playing. This game is clearly a throwback to the old Dragonslayer arcade game and CD-ROM games from the early nineties.
This was really fun at first, but after a while you realize how little impact it has on the actual gameplay. Some games are able to blend story and gameplay seemlessly, but this isn't one of them. Once you kill all the enemies within your immediate vicinity, you just go back to blending in and sneaking toward the checkpoint. This seemed like the most intuitive and funnest thing to do, but what I didn't realize is that after you kill enemies, fresh ones are spawned in, so your only choice is to rush to the next checkpoint with the least amount of resistance. A lot of it involved holding one or two buttons while rotating a joystick, then pressing another button, or other such nonsense. I admit it, I've never played any of the previous Metal Gear games, so this review will be more for the first time agnostics than hardcore fans.
It probably took me about an hour just to figure out how to play the game.Basically, you have to sneak through various warzones without being spotted. If an enemy gets too close, they'll spot you regardless. Needless to say, I skipped all these cutscenes. There's really no reason to try anything other than this tactic.When you finally reach a checkpoint you are treated to these ridiculously long cutscenes which can last up to an hour long. Suffice to say, I just didn't get it.Right off the bat, the controls and inventory seemed overly complicated, and took a long time to get used to. When that happens, your only option is to shoot it out with the enemies and take a ton of damage in the process.
Thank goodness I only rented this. Rinse and repeat.Since you can kill most enemies through stealth, I figured I'd kill everyone standing between me and the objective with them being none the wiser.
I had never really played any of the MGS solid before (except for a few hours of MGS3), so I was totally new to the franchise. This is one of the deepest games I have ever played, with the best graphics on any console hands down.
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