Whilst debate rumbles on as to the merits and deficiencies of MGS4's storytelling, it is a game that should ultimately be remembered for its outstanding gameplay and peerless technical aptitude. For a project relentlessly hyped as a blockbuster experience, there's barely a moment where it doesn't live up to its billing. Legendary soldier Solid Snake is dying. His body is ageing at an excessive rate and he has just months to live. In a world where war has become an economy unto itself and computers, ID tags and nanomachines know everything about everyone, Snake must evade the system and take down old adversary Liquid Ocelot before he gains control of the ...  Read the complete review

Title: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Publisher: Konami Developer: Kojima Productions Age: 15+ Genre: Stealth/Action Price: £38 (Amazon) Format: PS3 If you want to seem a smug person, you could mention that the Metal Gear series did not originate on the Playstation console back in 1998, but was actually created for the MSX2 in 1987. Metal Gear Solid though did originate on the Playstation, a slight continuation of the story from the first two Metal Gear games, based around soldier Solid Snake, clone of Naked Snake, the greatest solider of the 20th Century. After neutralising the threat of a nuclear-capable tank at ...  Read the complete review

It's been thirteen years since the first Metal Gear Solid game came out on the first PlayStation, and the developers haven't been lazy since. Three other main games have been released, plus two PSP titles, a spin-off series and a remake. You can also expect to see a new game in the series called 'Rising' next year, and later this year a collection that includes two of the main games and one of the PSP titles. So, the series is showing no signs of slowing down even after the fourth and possibly last main game came out. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a stealth game which tiptoed onto PS3 in 2008. It was heavily acclaimed by critics and fans of the series,  Read the complete review

Not being a big fan on the Metal Gear Solid series when I was younger, the only reason I played this game was because it came free with my Playstation 3; what a stroke of luck that was. It was the best looking game I had seen at the time, and the plot was like nothing I had seen before....it was genuinely good. Playings MGS4 feels literally like an interactive movie, not in the way that heavy rain does, but in a way that you are shown the entire, complete picture of an espionage mission. I have completed MGS4 four times, and here's why you should at least rent it: -GRAPHICS- Easily the best out of 2008 and f**k, it best out of 2009 too. In fact, the incredibly ...  Read the complete review

I'm a huge Metal Gear Solid fan. While I've never played the original two Metal Gear games, having only started with Metal Gear Solid, I find the games to be hugely entertaining, incredibly original, and with a storyline you really can't find anywhere else. The general story here follows on from the previous 3 games, expanding a bit more on the Solid-Liquid Snakes, as clones of the legendary solider Big Boss or "Naked Snake", and this time we see Solid Snake, suffering from rapid aging (due to him being a clone), hunting down Liquid, who has now completely taken over Revolver Ocelot's body, who plans on taking control of the Patriots and with it, the ...  Read the complete review