June 12th, Metal Gear Solid 4 arrives on the PS3. Early videos for this title didn't excite me much, but as we have come closer to the release I have managed to get a little bit excited about this game. I missed the last Metal Gear Solid (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater). I am pretty sure I was deep inside the Molten Core, earning -50 dkp when it came out. So the last Metal Gear Solid game I played was Metal Gear 2: Sons of Liberty which was quite possibly the worst bait and switch job in the history of video games. You played Solid Snake for two maps in that game, and then you are forced to spend the next 12 hours (give or take) playing some long haired emo kid in a stealth suit. Honestly, if I wanted to play Final Fantasy I would have thrown it in the Playstation 2! There were not even any chocobos in the second chapter. So maybe 1/2 of the reason I skipped out on Snake Eater was because I was still a bit hung over from Sons of Liberty, which wasn't a horrible game...but definitely had some serious character flaws. From what I've been told, Snake Eater more than made up for the flaws in Sons of Liberty and was an excellent game. I am hoping that this next (and supposedly final) installment of Solid Snake will live up to the hype, and I'm excited to get in there and start playing it. Looks like I'm going to have to put GTA 4 on hold for a while (I am only at about 52% complete).
It will be interesting to see how the public receives this game. The playstation 3 desperately needs more exclusive titles, and for the time being this game has the potential to help that situation out. Either way, I am excited. Solid Snake is easily one of the coolest video game icons \ characters ever envisioned. Even if he is, at times, unnecessarily broody.
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