Metal Gear Solid (MGS), one of the most anticipated game. It took three years to make the game, now one question remain,does it live up to the hype? The answers is YES. The story for the game sound simple, but when you play the game is really quite different from what you expect.
        Here the story, you play as Solid Snake, who try to stop terrorist from lauching a nucleus weapon, from there the plot start to twist, turn,and so on... The game graphic is good enough to keep you interest in playing the game, although the graphic can be better, but I believe that the creator put most of his afford toward the details in the background. For example, there a part in the game where you see a Playstation machine,and at some point of the game, when the ninja kick, you can see bunch of papers flying around, is really cool.
        Control in this game is really good, it should only take you about 10-20 minutes to get it down, once you got it down, lets choke somebody, with this in mind, it lead me to Gameplay. Gameplay I have never ever play a game on playstation that is better than or equal to MGS, the only game that even come close to MGS would probably be Resident Evil 2. There are so many things that you can do with Snake, you can come from behind a guard and choke him to death, or use a sniper to take him off from a distance, really cool. There are many equipment you can use to help you through the game, like C4, thermal goggle,mine,grenade, cigarette(marlboro?), silencer, just to name a few. There just so many thing that you can do in this game.
        Sound is excellent, from the sound effect to music to voice acting, every single sound is cool. I really enjoy the game music, it is one of the best on playstation, as I writing this, I also listening to the MGS theme, oh yeah... Resident Evil 1,the first game to use human voice and try to make it like a B-movie. Resident Evil 2, voice and acting is bit improve over the previous one. Now MGS, the acting is simply amazing, when you play this game, is like as if you watching a cool James Bond or Mission impossible movie, its just too cool. Overall, this game is a masterpiece. The story will keep you playing and will make you curious about what happen next. The music will mood you, it will make you care about the characters in the game.The use of Dual Shock is just amazing, no one have ever use Dual Shock better than MGS. [A word of advise, this game MUST play with a Dual Shock controller to get the most out of it, and when playing, do not skip any of the talking scene, because if you do, you will miss out a lot on the story line, beside there are hints to help you solve some of the puzzle.]
        The game have two different endings, both are really good. There are a lot of secrets hidden in this game, the best one are the one you get after beating the game and see the second ending. Now get out there and pick up the game, oh one more thing, be warn, after first time through the game, it will only take you about 2hrs 40mins. to beat it again. Wheeewwww, now that I done with MGS, my next most anticipated game would be SILENT HILL. I will review SH when it release on 2/25/99, be sure to bookmark this page and visit us more often.

	Worst feature:      The Graphics.  Best feature:      The Game play.

 
 

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