The Metal Gear hype machine is nearing in full swing, what with the release of the final installement of Metal Gear Solid only two months away. I picked up a copy of the recent Metal Gear Solid Essential collection (thanks andy!) and PTOM tribute issue to Metal Gear. Having played and owned the first edition of these Metal Gear installements, it's nice to finally own a compilation of the director's cut of the games so i can play it over again in the future. The sad reality is of course, i most probably won't get a chance to play Metal Gear Solid 4 when it's released later this year as i have yet to get my Playstation3. Not that it's much of a disappointment as i never saw myself as such a big metal gear head, surely not big enough to purchase a Playstation3 just to play it.
The truth is i'm not abig fan of convulted storytelling in video games and the Metal Gear series is notorious for that. The only Metal Gear storyline i thoroughly enjoyed was Metal Gear Solid as i love the theme of liquid versus the solid, the light versus the dark. I liked it so much that i went to great lengths to acquire the Gamecube-only remake as soon as i got my Nintendo Wii. While the subsequent sequels had all been great, the first Metal Gear Solid was the one that truly lived up to it's hype, it remains to see if the truth can be said about this new Metal Gear. However, the new Metal Gear sequel has just about the worse box art in the history of Metal Gear games, a 3D image of Old Snake mug ravaged by the horrors of war and nicotine......very nice Konami.
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