Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Tactical Espionage Action) Review

The last Capture of the Legendary Soldier

 I have finally managed to put my hand on and played Metal Gear Solid 4. In my personal opinion it is a Master peace and is one of those games that certainly it make you want to buy or wish that you have owned a Play Station 3.

In this review I am not doing to spoil certain events of the game as it wouldnt be fun playing it any more.

                                                              MGS4 as many may know is one of the first exclusives games that might have pushed the power of the PS3 console up to to its limits. It offers brilliant level designs, 20 hours of pure gameplay which 90 minutes of them are of beautiful cinematic cut scenes. You are also able to earn various emblems awards based on your performance trueout the game and also it has lot of secrets that one must or needs to discover. 

Snake Patting Down a Soldier

The game was released 4 years ago to be exactly on June 12, 2008 by the director and game designer legend Hideo Kojima, and it features the last installment for the legendary soldier “Solid Snake” in the Metal Gear Solid franchise. The game scenario in set in the year 2014 and Solid Snake isn’t a young man anymore. The reason is because his cells are deteriorating due to the fact that he was cloned from genetics of “Big Boss”. In this final chapter Snakes mission is to search for “Liquid Ocelot” (formerly known as “Revolver Ocelot” whose mind was passed by the persona of Snakes Brother “Liquid Snake”) so that to stop him from conquering the world with the help of his “PMC”. In other to find Ocelot snake had to visit 5 unique areas which are the Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Europe and also shadow Moses and Arsenal Gear (I think that some of you may have realized and that the answer is yes the last 2 places are where MGS 1 was settled) .

Snake Using One of Drebin's Weapons 

Thanks to Dr. Hal Emmerich or “Octocon” nake is equipped with a lot of new and useful devices so that to help and make his life a bit easier on the battlefield, some of which are the “MK II” which is a remote mobile terminal to support as a personnel, The “Solid Eye” which acts as a radar and provides vital states of the enemies and the surrounding and also the “Otocamo” which is a high –tech suit that dynamically transforms its textures based on snake’s surroundings.

Young Snake Face Camo

There are many unlock able’s to unlock such as “Special outfits” and “Face Camos” which enable you to play as another character like “Young Snake”,“Raiden” and much more. A new addition in the game is also the “Drebin Shop”, Drebin is a soldier that works for huge network underground gun launderers who replaces ID Chips in guns so that they can be used by anyone. Snake will meet wiith him at the opening minutes of the game and thanks to him he will be able to buy, use and customize a wide range of different avaiable weapons.

All The Characters of MGS 4

The game also features some funny comedy moments as in the previous title where you will certainly enjoy. For example do you remember when we used to play “MG1” and in the middle game due to the limitations of that time we had to swap the CD of the game. Well Octacon will call you through the codec and tell you “Snake you have to change the disc, but he find out that the game is on the PS3 and because of the Blu-ray storage capacity it's unnecessary” loll.

In my opinion one of the only drawbacks of this game is that it doesn’t have the support of trophies, due to the fact that Sony didn’t added the trophy feature to the Play Station 3 until a month after the release of the game. Since than many speculations has been around for the trophy patch support for the game but nothing had happened yet. Also a tutorial at the beginning of the game like that of “MGS: Peace Walker” it would have been defiantly handy, so that to understand the controls and the game system much more.

Other than that well I am very satisfied with this game and it has worth the money that I have spent on.  I will remember it as being one of the most enjoyable and greatest game that I have played till know on the PlayStation 3 Console and thats why it deserve 

10/10 SCORE

So hurry up what are you waiting for go near one of your retail shops or order it right now from the internet, as you will be defiantly disappointed that you have not played it yet.

General Information About The Game

Developer(s):  Kojima Productions

Developer Web site link: http://www.konami.jp/mgs4/global/index.html

Publisher(s): Konami

Director(s): Hideo Kojima,  Shuyo Murata

Producer(s): Hideo Kojima, Kenichiro Imaizumi

Artist(s): Yoji Shinkawa (character designer)

Writer(s): Hideo Kojima, Shuyo Murata

Composer(s):  Harry Gregson-Williams, Nobuko Toda

Series: Metal Gear

Engine: In-house engine

Platform(s): PlayStation 3

Release date(s): June 12, 2008

Genre(s): Stealth action, Third-person shooter

Mode(s): Single-player, multiplayer online (Metal Gear Online only, downloadable content)

Rating(s): BBFC: 15, CERO: D, ESRB: M, OFLC: MA 15+, OFLC: R16, PEGI: 18+, USK: 18

Media/distribution: Dual-layer Blu-ray Disc

System requirements:  4.6 GB HDD space

If you need any additional information about the game you can     visit: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Wiki.