Metal Gear Solid 4
Metal Gear Solid 4 is the best of the best, the epics of the epics and the legendary among the legendaries… Its the game that pushed the boundaries of gaming, its the game that showcased what a brilliant mind and vision Hideo Kojima-san has…
With that much said, you gotta be insane to own a Play Station 3 to not own this game! Even Hideo-san thinks the same with several PS3 promo ingame for example: -
- Otacon asking Snake to change disc only to said that with the blueray, you do not need to
- Psycho Mantis claiming taht vibration is back and there is no need for a memory card
The whole execution is flawless… It takes the entire series and then improved it… The controls maybe a little difficult to master and is pretty touch sensitive (tapping and holding etc) but its pretty much manageable even during CQC… The AI are pretty good in detecting you and the unmanned machines especially the drones play their roles to find you… The Geckos are a pain to fight against draining ur ammo while returning u with nothing…
The Drebin system is pretty handy to get you the upgrades and ammo u need for your guns and i finished the game without buying any guns from him… During saturday and sundays, you do get more discount from him while on act5 itself, its 50% off… It is possible to farm for the points and somehow, it makes u think twice either to stealth through the enemy or to gun him down and collect his ammo and gun for Drebin points…
The environment offers a slight sandbox experience where multiple routes are possible to a point and its up to your creativity… You can even utilize the Metal Gear Mk.II and then Mk.III to get pass certian points… Together with the solid eye, you can spot flaws in the enemies defence and sneak through them easily or discover hidden items such as ipod songs (it seems hideo-san is a big fan of ipod), ammos, items, weapons and upgrades…
Boss battles are always the highlight in the entire series… How can we forget Pyscho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid that we need to change the controller port to avoid mind reading or the large scale cant and mouse sniper battle in Metal Gear Solid 3… Here’s the roundup: -
- Laughing Octopus battle in a small shack limiting your movement while she stealthed herself ambusing you… The atmosphere is pretty disturbing to suit the beast itself and she can even mimic your frens leading you to bomb (yea i fell for the Mk.II Otacon voice asking me to follow it only to be blown to bits)…
- Raging Raven’s battle was epic in the sense us being in a tall building fighting Raven and her army… In other words, we are surrounded being able to be hitted from all angles… Aiming moving targets was hard and dodging missles ain’t easy…
- Crying Wolf is yet another awesome sniper battle in the series… Crying Wolf herself is pretty cool especially her railgun and its a pretty long battle to stay stealth from the frogs while trying to find the stealth wolf with limited batteries on you Solid Eye…
- Vamp battle is nothing much besides evading and gunning him down… Though you can’t kill an immortal.. Instead CQC him with a syringe to make him mortal concept was cool…
_ Screaming Mantis battle is by far the hardest being in a small area, cornered, trying to shoot a floating gal who is controlling every1 including Meryl… Beating it is ectremely rewarding particularly through the use of the sixaxis (the sixaxis word is a palindrome)
- Liquid Ocelot as the final battle is every bit i’ve hope for… Great music playing in the background as you fight Liquid just like in Metal Gear Solid 1 itself barefist… The cutscense thrown here and there together with the whole trip down the memory lane makes a perfect final boss battle…
Besides stealthing and gunning people down, you do have the ‘extras’… I loved the stalking mission a lot eventhough its a little wrong rotfl… The on the bike sequence was really awesome with nostalgic feeling from Metal Gear Solid 3 (Naked Snake) while filled with lots of action… And who could forget riding REX itself, the thing we sought to destroy in the first game against RAY (the REX replacement Metal Gear)… All of these were presented superbly…
Presentation wise, this game push the limit on how a game is like… Tonnes of long cut scene which i concluded myself watching more cutscenes than actually playing the game… It feels like playing through a movie while a movie itself could never provide you with the atmosphere and interactiveness of something as huge as the Metal Gear Solid Saga… Backed with great music scores from time to time including timeless classic from previous games and superbly done flashbacks (from flashback images which u can press on prompt to the automatic voice in head of the codec conversations from previous games)… Metal Gear Solid veterans would feel this game is godsend… As i play through the game, there’s countless goosebumps from such experience that i’ve had…
There are some Hideo-san ‘extra’ touches along the way including the credits which jz ammuses me… In the voice actor section, you would see the “Voice of God – Hideo Kojima” lol!.. and u will see a credit of big boss’s voice actor… WHAT? i never heard big boss in the game! Only to be greeted with another cutscene involving Big Boss itself… Its pretty shocking to see from the credits that Hideo-san actually took a big role in the development of the game including motion capture…
Overall this game is a masterpiece on what it may seemed like Hideo-san’s greatest work yet… Its sad that such saga has finally ended while i’m sitll keeping my fingers crossed on more of the Metal Gear experience out there… It totally worthy of all the perfect 10/10 or 5/5 reviews it had claimed out there… Technologically, it pushed the PS3 like no other games had yet while the brilliant execution in telling the whole Metal Gear story amazes you…
PS: Jack aka. Raiden was as cool and as kickass as i hope he would be… Dun wanna spoil wut happened though…
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