This Should Work

As James pointed out in a previous comment, it’s prime video game playing time with the wife away. After doing a little bit of research this weekend I settled on buying a game called Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. In retrospect, I probably should have made another choice.

I’ve played this series before and the last one was ok at best (decent gameplay, over-the-top story, terrible dialog, even worse “acting”). But everything I read pointed out that the story was much better this time around and the gameplay was more in-depth; one review even gave it a 9.8 of 10. So I thought I’d give it this series a try one more time.

So I place the disc in my Playstation 2, and start the playing game–or so I thought. I first had to sit and wait through a 12 minute cut scene that sets up the plot the game. When that was over, I move my character a through a few frames and then to listen to some more dialog (for about two or three minutes) that reveals a little more about the plot. Finally, fifteen minutes into the experience I get to actually play the game.

That pretty much summarizes how this game is designed: 10-15 minute cut scene, move through a few frames where there’s little to do, listen to 2-3 minutes of dialog, fight somebody, repeat. The story is a little less over-the-top, but the writing is horrible at best.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, there is actually one moment in this game where your character climbs a ladder for 5 minutes! Why? So that you could hear a f**kin’ song that they wrote for game! Seriously, I pressed up on the controller with one hand, and walked into the ktichen and emptied the dishwasher with the other hand (Thank God for wireless controllers).

There are a few good moments in this game (there’s a sniper battle that’s entertaining), and the Bonus materials are pretty good as well. The second disc includes the original Metal Gear game from 1987 which was fun to go back and revisit, also there’s an online mode that’s supposed to be pretty good (I wouldn’t know because my Playstation is not networked yet).

I’ve learned my lesson; I’m selling this game back this week and swearing off this franchise for good.

image from lik-sang.com.

[tags]Metal Gear Solid, Video Games, MGS3, [/tags]

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