By David Wilcox
"Gorgeously next-generation graphics and a score of epic scale - highlighted by Snake's poignant stringed theme - polish off the overall package of "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots." "Metal Gear Online" extends the game's endurance with its robust shooting play. As arguably the first major exclusive title for the PlayStation 3, "Patriots" provides the mightiest of anchors and should weigh heavily on the minds of any prospective system buyers. Kojima's brilliant design and direction ensures that Solid Snake doesn't merely sneak into video game history, he passes on with all the glory befitting his iconic place in that history. His exit is the one change in "Patriots" players may not be quick to embrace."
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.
You do not have a Soul.
I understand, everyone's rights to love or hate a game.
But, this game deserves even higher then a 10.
But, you must have played all of it, to understand what I mean. :(
i did not play mgs3 but i played the mgs1 and mgs2, .... this game is an epic ending, while playing this game i had flash back of my child hood because i can rember me beign like 8-12 years old playing mgs1 on ps1 in my neighboors house, i know that is a young age to play a mgs game but his big brother had the game and when we went into his room and saw that cd we did not know what it was until we put it in, and i will never regret that moment =D if only i still had my ps1 so i can play the game again just to see the low pixels on snakes face...lol
No game is perfect. No movie is perfect and only Dave Genn w/ Matthew good make perfection in music.
Truth is, Shadow of the colossus was/is probably my favorite game ever but it isn't perfect. I'd give it a 9.5. I say this because you really want more after it was all said and done and then you see the cut Colossi and you think, man that would've been better than the Buffalo one. You know? So even SOTC isn't perfect.
MGS4 is far from perfect, the graphics are good, but not great. I like a great deal of the way it looks but flat textures and lack of bump mapping does hurt it when comparing it to Uncharted or Gears of War.
Add to this it was very short Gameplay wise. MGS4 might be the perfect metal gear but game it is not.
Shadow of the colossus
Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Super Mario bros
Crystalis
Alundra
Suikoden
Suikoden 2
Uncharted
R&C going commando
R&Cftod
are all more fun to me than MGS4 and all score higher than MGS4 to me.
One word CRAP
@ pp
so i see you now realized you should of bought a ps3 by your comment because obviously you mean one word crap i should have bought a ps3 for this epic game.