Aylon from Gameplanet gets stuck into perhaps the most significant PS3 exclusive of the year - Metal Gear Solid 4.
Metal Gear Solid 4 does not deserve a score. It is not fair to rate it on the same level as other games. It's kind of like asking someone to rate Pac-Man or Space Invaders; sure you could do it, but you'd be wrong to. Metal Gear Solid 4 is more than just a game. Many will say it is like a game and a movie in one and they would be arguably right. It definitely feels like a hybrid of entertainment mediums, but unlike games such as Mass Effect which attempt to be interactive movies, Metal Gear Solid 4 mostly splits the two between playing and watching.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Game creator Hideo Kojima is and probably will always be best-known for his creation and stewardship of the Metal Gear series at Konami, which since his departure has been more-or-less on permanent hiatus (don't mention Survive). In his almost three decades these games evolved to the point where they predicted certain problems of the information age (MGS 2), took aim at contemporary topics like Guantanamo Bay (MGS: Ground Zeroes), and ended on a profound sense of sadness about our species' inability to break the cycles of global conflict (MGS V).
It's not clear what sparked this reflection, but Kojima's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid 4, an entry that was (and unfortunately still remains) a PlayStation 3 exclusive. In that entry the player controls an aged Solid Snake in the year 2014, caught up in a civil war being fought between Private Military Companies (PMCs).
He was always ahead with this series. MSG1 taught me about the importance of passing on our genes into future generations but in a responsible way, for they are bound to what we experienced in our lifetime. Sons of liberty taught me about global control and simulation runs to test society in a grand scale, the importance and dangers of control of information. MGS3 taught me about patriotism and how that can blind you into doing things you never would have otherwise, all for the sake of politicians who only see you as another pawn in their grand scheme of things. MSG4 taught me war is inevitable and always orchestrated because it's great for the economy. Soon simulation systems will start dictating who goes to war and why, all run through proxies. Privatization of military company are already here. We already started to see how a small group of elites dictates everything that happens. Nothing is done, nothing happens without strings being pulled.
If it wasn't for the retconning of how FOXDIE works, including clunky scenes with Naomi and Liquid, MGS4 would be a perfect game. There are so many gameplay options. It felt like us PS3 owners got something truly unique and special.
MGS4 = best movie this yr
MGS4 = best game this gen
Honestly, i haven't seen a better movie this yr. Kojima NEEDS to have full say in the MGS movie so they don't fvk it up
Praise be to Yevon.
funny that it doesn't deserved to be scored amongst other games
and then they give it a 9.5
I was like WTF?! not a 10 even with that kind of intro. then I went to the full review and I was convinced! really, this guy is good at words! -0.5 for being 'too good' but primarily too focused to the fans! but whatever, he said that MGS4 does not deserve to be rated the same way as other games and that's totally true! then he said that a lot of other games will look bad if compared to it! SOLIDLY TRUE!! it's a pun but I really hope other devs will take this challenge and produce more great titles and not just try to cash in money like many is currently doing!
Nice to see someone 'got' the review :)