“Each of the five chapters
throws you into a completely
different part of the world”
Metal
Guns of the Patriots
Gear Solid4
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up, it’s time to buy a PS3. The setting is brilliant because, it automatically changes colour to
We know, the PlayStation 3 unlike previous MGS games that match any surface that you press
costs big bucks and if you’re have you sneaking through Snake against. It means that, if you
going to hand over that sort of corridors as a one-man army stand still for a few seconds, you
cash you’ll want there to be a against a bunch of terrorist, there’s can blend into any surface, and a
special game that makes it worth all sorts of shit going down in the camo counter tells you how hidden
it. Metal Gear Solid 4 is that game. Middle-East. Opposing armies are you are. You’re never truly invisible
MGS games have always been fighting over God-knows-what all though, but it does give you a real
really good, but MGS4 ups the bar over the place and you’re placed edge on the battlefield.
with its cinematic effects, artistic slap-bang in the middle of it.
flair and sheer depth. It takes This means that, as you do Each chapter is different
everything you’ve come to expect your best to avoid confrontation All this is great, but what really
from the MGS series – a great and stay hidden (as usual), there’s tops MGS4 off is the fact that
plot and in-depth cutscenes, with a war going on around you, with each of the game’s five chapters
a mix of slow stealth stages and rockets flying by, gunfights and throws you into a completely
fast-paced action scenes – and people dying all around – with different part of the world, and
seriously ups the budget on it all. tanks rumbling through streets surprises you with new gameplay
and all sorts of madness. And you mechanics. It’s the sort of game
So Solid crew can choose whether or not to get that, 10 hours in, will still be
You play as Solid Snake again, involved. You know, like sneaking throwing new stuff at you that
who’s now called Old Snake as through the sewers to get past makes you love it a little bit more.
a result of accelerated ageing. At that helicopter, or if you decide to We’re talking about putting on
the start of the game you hit the break out a rocket launcher and a disguise and fighting as a rebel
Middle-East in search of his blow the hell out of it. in a raid on an enemy base, racing
nemesis brother, Liquid Snake, That black suit Snake’s through a town on the back of a
who’s cooking up a plan to mess wearing is brilliant, too. It’s new motorbike as you shoot at chasing
up the world by controlling the tech called OctoCamo which, in enemies, or taking control of Metal
ds by Daniel Alan
tech behind modern warfare. normal English, basically means Gear Rex in a massive robot fight,
or
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