Metal Gear Solid
- Lightly Armed and facing an army of foes, Snake must avoid firefights in order to survive.
- If Snake can locate them he can utilize advanced hardware, ranging from silenced pistols to ground-to-air missiles.
- Enemies react to sight and sound – so stay silent and stay in the shadows.
- State-of-the-art graphics, textures, transparencies, models & explosions.
- Taut, gripping tale with multiple endings – a truly cinematic experience.
Editorial Review
You are Solid Snake, a superspy who’s half James Bond, half Snake Plissken, and you are mean. Your mission isn’t terribly new (infiltrate a terrorist base and blow everything up), but the gameplay is: your copious enemies are watching for you, and you are encouraged to sneak rather than simply charge in. Every level brings new challenges. You fight snipers, invisible ninjas, psychic warriors, and even an M-1 tank! As the member of the clergy of the modern spy game genre, this game is an instant classic.
Your allies and superiors speak to you via a cool, implanted radio, monitoring your progress, offering tips–but failing to give you the full tale. The combination of a mysterious and engaging plot and high in-game tension makes this a thrilling ride. Campy humor also abounds as you rescue gorgeous women, verbally spar with your allies, and blow up enemies in the bathroom. A user-friendly control interface allows for sniping, hiding, crawling, and running, and the graphics leave not anything to be desired. If you like espionage, spy movies, or just want to own and play a piece of gaming history, then this is a must have. Metal Gear Solid is one of the all-time greats. Game tip: Secretly glue plastic explosives behind an enemy, sneak out of the room, and see what happens. –Allen Stewart
Pros:
- Tale well-integrated into gameplay
- Secrecy favored over brute force
- Challenging puzzles
Cons:
- Puzzles can be frustrating
- Torture scene too intense for younger gamers
Buy Metal Gear Solid
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Rating: 1 / 5
Metal Gear Solid one of the most ever overrated and hyped game ever.You play as snake who walks like he needs to go to the bathroom trying to use secrecy. It’s simple just try to watch the radars and memorize their paths and walk right by them . Snake is a cheetah compared to the genomes . And when you are spotted run around for 20 seconds and they’ll get tired . THis game is small too . The Vr trainiing mode is in fact very excellent .
Pros:
VR Training excellent
Mei Ling
Set c4 hide in air duct boom!
Cons:
Simple secrecy
Very stupid soldiers
Mei Ling not real
More of a 2-d game
not anything compared to tenchu
small
People hype
expensive
by and large:
not worth the hype, not worth the price. Worth a rent or $10 buy.
Score:2
Rating: 1 / 5
I came to Amazon to buy a “Sim” game, when I got sucked in by people saying this was the “best game”, so I bought it instead. Now I wish I hadn’t. It’s not even as excellent as “Resident Evil”.Rent MGS and then buy Command & Conquer! You’ll be glad you did!
Rating: 2 / 5
Although this isn’t the resolution worst game I have ever played, it is certainly NOT the best game, which is why I gave it one star. I am completely amazed that out of ninety-eight reviews, it’s still averaging five stars, so I’m trying to throw that curve off as much as I can. I want to offer a contrasting opinion, so that anyone interested in the game won’t be sold hook, line, and sinker by these other reviews. The storyline is about as unpleasant as it gets, and the dialogue is honestly stupid. But even I admit that those aren’t the most vital parts of a game. The camera angle is awkward, and the control just doesn’t flow as well as many other high quality sports meeting. The graphics are by no means top of the line. I was attracted to this game because of its focus on secrecy–but if you want a excellent secrecy game, play the Tenchu sports meeting. If you want a excellent action game that makes use of secrecy, try Dread Effect. Compared to these sports meeting, and others like the Tomb Raiders, this game is very, very weak. I’m not saying the other reviewers are incorrect for having their own opinions, but I wanted potential buyers to be wary.
Rating: 1 / 5
Updated review- March 20, 2007
I was completely incorrect about Metal Gear Solid. I’ve really grown to change my mind about the unenthusiastic thoughts I once had and NOW I reflect Metal Gear Solid deserves 5 stars (4.5 to be exact). I especially grew to appreciate the main purpose of the game which is, as many have already mentioned, being encouraged to AVOID the guards that appear on your radar. The thought of the game is to find ways to avoid enemies- not just go in and attempt to either shoot or break their necks. No marvel I originally gave the game a low rating. I went in expecting to kill everything that walked in my way! The gameplay is a radically different approach from anything I’ve ever experienced before.
I originally said Metal Gear Solid was one of those sports meeting I respect more than I delight in. I said this because so much thought and energy went into the storyline and voice acting, that I felt the game deserved to be respected, and Konami deserved credit for making it.
But, playing the game today for the first time in months, I don’t know what happened. When I hit the triangle button to place myself in first-person mode, and looked across the hallway to see if a guard happened to be standing there (or walking towards me) I got caught up in the excitement and the silent atmosphere of trying to find a way around him. It was addicting. I finally figured out how to break their necks and that was a lot of fun, too. The boss fights are in fact the very best thing about Metal Gear Solid. Every release one of them is fun, not to mention they all require you to figure out the best way to defeat them using your rather large selection of guns and figuring out which gun is the right one. I like fighting that ninja without using weapons and hearing him speak between the action segments. Hearing enemies talk while you’re fighting them makes you want to kick their butts even MORE!
I also like when everything is nice and silent, and then you accidentally walk right by a guard. When this happens, a loud sound effect comes in that gives off a feeling of “Oops, my terrible!” because now the guard is chasing you around. You now have to run for your life. I didn’t realize last year that this is in fact a lot of fun. This IS a really excellent game. I’m sorry for saying it was average last year. Sometimes I need to in fact PLAY a game before speaking my mind.
Metal Gear Solid is the revolutionary Playstation game that showed the world a new, life-like way to play video sports meeting in the late 90’s. The influence this game had on the future of video gaming is simply astounding. Metal Gear Solid showed how you can take secrecy fighting and wrap a gigantic, memorable tale around it. While I’m not a huge fan of lengthy twists and turns in video game storylines, I will give Konami a lot of respect for putting an *incredible* amount of time and effort into the game, and in the process, having the Metal Gear Solid series continue to do well on the Playstation 2, and soon, Playstation 3.
I especially like the silent atmosphere while you try finding ways to walk around guards. It comes off like you’re watching a movie instead of playing a video game, or, to place it another way, you’re “playing” a movie. Not many people can make an atmosphere quite like this. Excellent job Konami.
Sometimes the guards aren’t as intelligent as you’d like them to be (you can in fact walk into an elevator and they will walk right by, without noticing you) and apparently none of them can see you if you’re standing only a couple feet away, but you know, these problems are in fact pretty nice because it allows gamers to end Metal Gear Solid without any major difficulty problems. I can only presume how hard the game would be if guards were extremely observant all the time.
I still have a conundrum with the by and large darkness of the game, though. More often than not, an vital shape or ammo pack is located in a hidden dark area, like near a corner, behind a crate or somewhere you can’t see. It’s really not a huge deal, though. Just hark back yourself to always check every dark area you come across. If you’re still having distress finding items, just press the triangle button to place yourself in first-person mode, and hit the left or right buttons on the directional pad to scan around. This works really well. In fact, the whole first-person camera angle was a splendid thought from Konami.
Even though 20 minutes of cutscenes and conversations isn’t really my thing, at least you are given the option to skip owing to them if you want (by critical any one of the four main buttons, plus the Start button). I despise when game companies FORCE you to watch them. I don’t reflect the storyline is terrible in any shape or form. It’s in fact decent. You see, my whole life I’ve had a belief that a video game should be more about in fact “playing a game” and less time should be devoted to storyline segments (I’ll make an exception for RPGs). The storyline in Metal Gear Solid is so huge and lengthy that if you were to sit there and listen to the whole thing you would be meeting there for HOURS. Honestly, Metal Gear Solid focuses more on storyline than actual gameplay.
With changing times and technology, people started to prefer the realistic aspects of video gaming. Metal Gear Solid will go down as one of the originators.
I DO have one complaint- there doesn’t seem to be an option for you to lock-on to your target, so YOU are mandatory to find and face the target. For example, if a guard is located south/east of you, you have to in fact use the directional pad to face south/east and THEN you can shoot him. You have to face him directly or agony continue shooting at you until you’re dead. This can be a pain because turning correctly is a bit of a challenge. This could have been fixed with one unadorned “lock-on next-door target” feature.
Sure, you have guns that can zoom in on a target, but to use THESE guns you have to get into a special position (which changes the angle of the camera). By the time you get into that position the guard will have already killed you because it takes a few seconds to get into that position, and believe me, you don’t have a SECOND to dissipate once a guard spots you. I want a gun that features a QUICK lock-on target (such as a gun with high amounts of firepower and frequently-available ammo packs). That way it won’t feel hopeless when a million guards are after me.
Besides a bit of by and large darkness, a lengthy storyline and sometimes unfair situations regarding aiming and shooting, I have no other problems with the game. These are really minor problems and it’s simple for me to look past them. A game that I SHOULD have given more attention to before attempting to give a final verdict. Metal Gear Solid is a classic game. It just took me a while to see that.
Rating: 2 / 5