Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
Four boss battles and a wedding
6/16/2008 6:13 PM | 5 Comments | Page 3 of 3
What's Hot: Fans will eat it up; Some impressive gunplay
What's Not: Long cinematics; Incomprehensible storyline; Not enough gameplay
Perhaps most disappointing is that Kojima seems to have lost some of his playfulness.
Metal Gear Solid 4 opens with a disarming set of TV show gags (including one with an on-camera David Hayter joining the fun), but then it gets earnest and mostly stays there. At one point, you defeat a boss simply because you're not on an original PlayStation, and there is also a wonderful original PlayStation dream sequence. Perhaps more of this humor might have kept the story from being such a wet blanket. Like Lucas, sometimes Spielberg, and the Siblings Wachowski, Kojima seems shut inside an echo chamber where no one tells him "no" and devoted fans scream "yes" no matter what he does. I mean no malice when I say they get what they deserve. The rest of us are better off steering clear.
This review was based on a retail copy of the game purchased by Crispy Gamer.
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[For more of our thoughts on
Metal Gear Solid 4, check out Scott Jones'
I Call Bullshit: Special Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Edition, and Billy Berghammer's
Dissenting Opinion: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.]
