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MSN UK Metal Gear Solid 4 Video Review

MSN UK Quote: "We havent even gotten into the multiplayer side of things yet, but even with out it, this is one of the best action games ever made."

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Wildarmsjecht5781d ago

Without nearly as much advertising as Halo 3, MGs4 is getting reviews from everywhere, all of them quite good. (I use Halo 3 because it set the bar for most marketed product in gaming history in my book. If Konami marketed MGS even 1/4 as much as MS did with Halo, I wonder how the end result would have been.

Capt CHAOS5780d ago

Even the rating on gameranking of mgs4 on gameranking.com is a bit higher.

sonarus5780d ago (Edited 5780d ago )

The question really is, what the hell was sony doing. MGS4 is selling PS3's but they aren't keeping up with stock, they aren't advertising they aren't doing sh!t. A friend of mine called me yesterday to ask if MGS4 was out yet. WTF. Pure failing from sony's end. Konami gave you a AAA exclusive to sell your system and they can't even advertise the hell out of it. Instead they are securing ads for battlefield bad company.

By the way guys, this is actually a duplicate review just hosted on msn http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

Torch5781d ago (Edited 5781d ago )

Just a friendly heads-up to those wishing to avoid potential spoilers.

This is a very long video review (almost nine minutes), and showcases some character-specific scenes you'd probably rather experience for yourselves when playing the game.

I know I did. :(

-Maverick-5781d ago

I so love this game :"(

MGS4 isn't just a game. It's an experience.

Veryangryxbot5780d ago

HOW DOES IT FEEL XBOTS, TO HAVE NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN!?

NeverP5780d ago (Edited 5780d ago )

XBOTS ALIVE.

First an xbox site reviews and give it almost an 10... then MSN reviews and gives it a 10..... Dont you think there is something a bit sinister in the work here..... maybe some xbox comunity and microsoft knows something...... LIKE for instance anouncement at E3 for MGS4 going multi.... HAHA then where would mr veryangryxbot be... haha... u are an IDIOT!

IDIOT COUNT veryangryxbot =1000

oh and before some of you go crazy ass on the disses.... I own an PS3 and I loved MGS3!

Veryangryxbot5780d ago

You cannot give this game anything less than a 9.5 or else you lose credibility. How bout that. Some cold hard facts in your face.

So what if they work for a 360 magazine! Who said they had a 360 at home. With the lack of reliable hardware and non future proofness and its dead library, only a BLIND man would still think 360 is teh dominating shiat.

I WOULDNT BE SURPRISED AT ALL THAT THESE DUDES WHO REVIEWED THE GAME HAS PS3s AT HOME! HAHA OWNED.

And suck it up xbot. MGS4 is PS3 exclusive NOW AND FOREVER. Its idiots like you that keeps the MGS4 going to the 360 rumor alive. Its amazing how much in denial turds like you are. EVEN AT THIS STAGE, fools like you still think that MGS4 would come over.

Just fking WOW. No words can describe the utter stubborness and stupidity that you people show on a daily basis. NO WORDS AT ALL.

You people are destined failures in life.

NeverP5780d ago

but its IDIOTS like you who actually think that a 3rd party dev would not go multi after the success it has on the ps3. its just stupid bussiness sense. In my opinion the best game this year.... from a 3rd party dev.... A DEV wants to make profit.... so they will be idiots (like U) if they dont expose their game to other platforms

IDIOT COUNT veryangryxbot=1001

Veryangryxbot5780d ago (Edited 5780d ago )

That says a lot. You are truly a big failure in life.

And you ask why MGS4 would never come over. WHY THE FK WOULD A GAME MADE SPECIFICALLY TO BOOST THE PS3, come over to your inferior box!

ROFLMAO can you not even see the stupidity of your suggestion. You want this game. Get a PS3, fool. Thats the only way you will ever get to play this game fully.

Its like I said a few months ago. THIS IS the GOLDEN AGE of gaming. And a few years from now, all you stupid bots will feel so fking stupid FOR MISSING OUT ON GAMINGS GOLDEN AGE.

Here, here, let me look into my CRYSTAL BALL and show you your future, stinkin xbot! Behold your sad gaming life 5 years from now:

And your little brother will ask you: "hey bro, I just played a 5 year old game called MGS4. AND WOW I understand now why they call it one of the best games ever. Why didnt you tell me about this game before bro? You were playing games back then, didnt you?"
You: "BECAUSE I bought a 3 CRAP ASS 60 WHICH I AM PISSED OFF ABOUT TO THIS FKING DAY! ERRGGG I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW! NOW GET LOST BEFORE I GIVE YOU A BEATING!"

HAHAHA! Do you see what I am talking about fool?
1) Gamings golden age is NOW. But the golden age is not on the 360, its on the PS3! I refer to the PS3 unstoppable list of games and its futureproofness.
2) Not only will you miss Golden age, 5 years from now, you would KNOW you missed the Golden age and your stinkin 360 will look like a piece of brick in your eyes. JUST LIKE DREAMCAST OWNERS ARE IN ENVY OF PS2 OWNERS AND GAMECUBE OWNERS ARE LIVING IN A FRIKKIN STATE OF DENIAL IN A LAND CALLED NINTENDO FANTASY LAND.
3) You are pissed off about the fact that you missed the golden age and the 360 no longer looks like a console machine in your eyes. Its looks like a stinkin piece of shiat in your eyes and you cant believe how you supported it for a few years.
4) You wished you had gone PS triple all the way and you are pissed that you didnt.
5) You are pissed that everyone else got to experience golden age including your brother.

Talk about the life of a soreloser. Thats your life in a nutshell.

Back to the MGS4 going to 360.
Unbelievable how your stupid ass somehow still thinks that this game would come over rofl.

This game is EXCLUSIVE. Its TIED IN BLACK AND WHITE. The game is filled with Sony and Apple advertisements. Sony has this game locked in exclusivity agreement. You need to fking wake up from fanboy fantasy dream and smell the frikkin reality. MGS4 is now and forever PS3 EXCLUSIVE. And you talk about how it come over because it proved a success only shows what kind of utter state of denial you live in.

First, the game would come over, according to you stinkin bots because it would flop in sales.
But now the game is a success, and suddenly, it would come over, according to your xbot logic, because third party developers love success and porting it over would mean MORE success.

This clearly proves how stupid you xbots are and in what state of denial you idiots live in. So in other words, according to xbot logic, it wouldnt matter how well the game does anyway, because it would come over one way or the other...FAIL.

Massive fail. Game is exclusive just deal with it, retards.

fishd5780d ago

It was a bit harsh,slower,slower!!!

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DrWan5781d ago

even though they operate independently

GarandShooter5780d ago

Agreed. Doesn't the MS in MSN stand for Microsoft? Heads are gonna roll...

SmokingMonkey5781d ago

i saw a picture of zone of enders 2 on a screen after the first act.
ZONE of ENDERS 3 please.

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PlayStation 3 Games That Desperately Need a PS5 Remaster

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.

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OtterX41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

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!!

Rude-ro41d ago

I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.

darthv7241d ago

Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.

_SilverHawk_41d ago

resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword

Cacabunga41d ago

Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2

Profchaos41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.

There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.

Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence

seanpitt2341d ago

The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!

Iceball200041d ago

YEAAASSSSS! I miss this franchise and wanna play it so bad again.

Father__Merrin41d ago

The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer

InUrFoxHole41d ago

The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.

Marcus Fenix41d ago

A Resistance reboot will be awesome

Michiel198941d ago

That's what Bungie should make, Ill keep saying it until it happens

1Victor41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

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 😱

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Michiel198941d ago

Resistance was the best co-op fps I ever played after L4D2

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One Last Smoke - The significance of Snake's cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4

An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

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Hideo Kojima laments that Metal Gear Solid 4's digital battlefield 'is no longer science fiction'

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).

Dirty_Lemons351d ago

That was a great fucking game/ movie.

DarXyde351d ago

To this day, it's one of those games where I refuse to skip the cutscenes, no matter how many playthroughs I've done.

But if you ask me...MGS2 was bloody prophetic and has aged like fine wine. That game was blasted as the weakest entry, and yet it's so enduring. I replayed it some time last year and it was remarkable.

sadraiden351d ago

Heed not the lamentations of people that say that MGS2 is bad because of the Snake/Raiden bait and switch. Every MGS game has its own merits, and while most people consider 3 to be the best, they all shine equally in my opinion.

porkChop351d ago

@sad

I would generally agree but with the exception of MGSV. It had truly excellent gameplay/combat, but dull and largely empty open world(s), and a narrative that is literally only half finished.

I really wish Kojima hadn't tried to go open world with MGS. It just wasn't right for the series. But I get it. He didn't want to make MG anymore but he wasn't allowed to make anything else. So he had to experiment within that franchise. Still, it was the wrong direction.

Santouryuu351d ago

I have been thinking about this a lot, MGS2 being the weakest and getting blasted.
My conclusion, for some years now, it's my favorite game of the series.
Going from MGS1 to MGS2 was such a big leap, in graphics, mechanics, etc.
And now it's even more relevant for being 'bloody prophetic' as you stated.

Maybe dust of my vita and play it again...

porkChop351d ago

It's a shame we never got a remaster of MGS4. The original game only rendered at 1024x768, and it ran anywhere from like 20fps to 60fps depending on the area. A remaster could have very easily cleaned up the visuals and performance. It's such a great game. I just want to play it again but in its best possible state.

MIDGETonSTILTS17351d ago

I agree, but they did all sorts of tricks to make use of the ps3’s cell processor….they’d probably have to rebuild the game in order to make it run on another machine. And, if that involves remaking those cutscenes somehow, then itll never happen, unfortunately.

porkChop351d ago

Nah. There have been plenty of remasters of PS3 games and they've turned out fine. It can be done.

ANIALATOR136350d ago (Edited 350d ago )

You can get near enough 4k 60 with it on RPCS3 these days

FallenAngel1984351d ago

War... war never changes. Or does it? The war has changed ...did it? The answer is no! Unless it is yes! No, of course it is! Is war! Yes! No! Yes?

PitbullMonster350d ago

Ah a man of culture. Duty calls

cell989351d ago

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.

Eidolon351d ago

You learned all this from MGS?

Tody_ZA351d ago

All that was literally the themes and core story of each game, so not surprising he learned that from MGS. Metal Gear Solid 2 in particular is so relevant today, it was more than a decade ahead of its time and a work of genius. Kojima saw what the digital future was going to become when it was in its infancy. Even MGS 5 despite being unfinished and less of a traditional Metal Gear Solid game with regards to story, had a fair bit to say about language and control over it that is relevant today.

It's a highly acclaimed series for a reason, and one of my favourite.

Eidolon351d ago

I've watched my brother play the MGS games, but I only beat MGS1 myself on the PSP in 2014, and MGSV in 2016. I took the themes and plots as lore, tbh.. trying to piece together the story of MGS rather than relating them to our current times.

Tody_ZA351d ago

It's definitely social commentary, Eidolon. You should read the "themes and analysis" section of the Wikipedia page for MGS2: Sons of Liberty for a start! Game was heavy on this.

Eidolon351d ago

I'll take a look, thanks. Actually might pick up MGS2 again (PS Vita), It's been years since I last played. Might start a new game tbh.

sadraiden351d ago

MGS2 literally predicted digital manipulation of information that we see today all the way back in 2001. MGS2 became Zucc's playbook.

Knushwood Butt351d ago

MGS taught me not to pee my pants.

cell989351d ago

Yes back in 1998 when I was 13. Throughout the years more information has been shown on this subject matters, but go back to early 2000s and information wasn't as prominent. Kojima was ahead of the game

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MaxiPower90351d ago

He was on the ball about many things. A true visionary.

sadraiden351d ago

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.

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