Metal Gear Solid 3 for the playstation 2. Its a great game and a great sequel to metal gear solid 2 but thats what fans of the series say, here's my opinion on the game.Story: 9/10
The story starts off with Naked Snake a.k.a Big Boss and you're in the 1960s where the only thing on everyone's mind right now is the cold war. The story might seem weird at first because the past 2 games were set like in 2011 but dun fret, this story is where everything began, its a prequel to all the MGS games ever made. I won't spoil the story anymore but it gets a really high score for it.
Graphics: 10/10
The Graphics is like none other, the graphics are really good in this game, the PS2 is definitely working a sweat running this game down to the water reflection to the great outdoors. It is almost perfect, play the game and you'll know what I'm talking about. Plus the PS2 in the past still has the difficulty of recreating a jungle environment due to its lack of hardware but Hideo Kojima and his team did it with this game. In the urban environment to the mountain tops to the great jungles, it is absolutely perfect.
Sound: 10/10
The sound is as great as the graphics, theres so much detail in everything, plus with the jungle environment you will hear the wildlife, birds or in a battle situation the guns like the AK47.
The music is good too with the opening title giving you the feeling of being in a 007 movie this game gets a even higher score for its songs like snake eater.
Gameplay: 8/10
The gameplay is almost the same as the past 2 games but with huge differences, such as that you can't carry all weapons at once you will have 8 weapon slots and item slots and all your gizmos will be in your backpack. So you will have to choose which stuff to carry around with cos it will affect you not only as using the right weapon but also as weight. Survival is key in this game and you have a stamina gauge below your health gauge which as the name implies shows your stamina. As your stamina depletes your performance in the field will deprove too like handshake or recovering from wounds so hunting for food is necessary and of course you're in a jungle environment go crazy killing birds with grenades and eating them. Lastly its the camouflage system, unlike previous MGS games you will need camouflage to blend into the surrounding, a scale on the top right tells how well you're concealed so you will be using this feature most of the time, the only thing that turns me off from the game is the fact you have to pause and change camo and continue the game, its quite irritating. Lastly snake will get injuries and its your job to treat them in its special menu, you will have to play doctor and give him meds for food poisoning or treat his gunshot wounds and if you don't your health bar will never be full.
Replay Value: 7/10
Replay value is ok, you could get the stealth camo which makes you totally invisible or get special weapons and stuff but you could get them pretty fast.
Last comments
Do not play this game if you are a action freak and you dun know about MGS being a stealth game
as the phrase goes "You're a ghost snake, in every sense of it."
But as people who play the past MGS games will notice that in snake eater version you will get to some what control the camera like move it a little over the sides but in the subsistence version you will get a full 360 camera which is cool not like in the past where the camera can sometimes be a hindrance.
EXTRA Comments
Instead of making small problem we can tolerate theres one huge bad point, they shutdown all online servers for this game, yes you guessed it this game has online matches and stuff like that but they shut it down and i have like 2 discs version to play the onlne mode only to find out that it was no longer there, Damn bastards.....
FINAL comments (seriously)
MGS 3 is the truly what they call a stealth action game with some situations where you will have to fight instead of sneaking it won't be boring. and with the huge amounts of easter eggs to make you laugh this game is a definite yes to buy.
Buy it | Rent it | Screw it
*Reviewer's Choice*
