Slate writes: "Metal Gear Solid 4 reveals the genius of the worlds greatest weirdest video game designer: The brilliant, idiosyncratic Hideo Kojima is one of the few game designers whose name alone can sell a title. He's the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the latest entry in the long-running Metal Gear franchise.
MGS4 is widely regarded as the best hope to spur sales of the PS3, a $400 disappointment that's currently languishing behind Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the console wars. That's not a terrible bet: Metal Gear Solid games set new bench marks for visuals on the last two PlayStation consoles, along with introducing major innovations and hundreds of little flourishes that made games seem more real than ever before."
