Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (PSP)

Being a Metal Gear Solid fan I was intrigued about this ever since the mediocre game that was Ac!d. With gameplay very similar to the console games under the same name it had a lot to live upto and in my opinion it did very well. The game is set after MGS3 and once again you take the role of Snake in a world of soldiers, sneaking and stealth. The only twist this time is that you control a team of soldiers who accompany you on the missions. The game is set into different missions based at different locations around a map. Each mission has a main objective but there is also the chance to capture enemy soldiers to be converted into helping you. This adds to ...  Read the complete review

Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops is a stealth action game for the PSP developed by Konami and Kojima Productions. The story of Portable Ops picks up after the events of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater, our hero Naked Snake (that's Solid Snakes father or Big Boss) has been captured by a member of his former Fox unit. The leader of Fox wants Snake to help him find the Philosophers Legacy which would grant him unlimited power to fund an army. Snake must escape and defeat the leader of Fox Gene with the help of a new squad he recruits. The story of the game is very good and brings back many characters from Metal Gear Solid 3 as well as giving you a first look at some ...  Read the complete review

While it may not be a fully-fledged Metal Gear title in style, the story is very much part of the series' timeline, taking control of Big Boss - the main character of MGS3. Stealth is once again the name of the game, this time along with capturing and recruiting enemy soldiers to your side to join Big Boss in the field (as playable characters), or act as spies, medics or technicians, giving you access to better intel, weapons and items. Cutscenes are by far the shortest found in a main Metal Gear Solid game, mainly down to memory restrictions of a PSP UMD disc. While relatively linear, Portable Ops is not laid out like a normal MGS game, ...  Read the complete review

The gist of the Metal Gear Solid games have been quite reliable for most of the series of repetitions - smash, close combat, bouts in the first person gunplay, and a dash for the land, with a sprinkling of A-In-The-F * * * Thrown in for good measure. If you are new to the series, you'll find lots of like in the formula, and if you are aware, you'll like the way that the portable version of the beloved franchise has been true to their roots. It is a Stealth game at heart, so good ol 'fashioned sneakery specifically for the course, but Snake is not your father is Sam Fisher. Snake build a personal army and simultaneously detect the harmful releases of ...  Read the complete review

It seems that all I do when reviewing PSP games is come across titles that seem like ports of the Playstation 2 counterpart. So it was refreshing that although it's the same franchise Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops, is a different game and it's in the MGS mold especially created for the PSP. By looking online you can pick this up for around £14.99 and it's definitley worth a look. Once again Konami deliver a great looking secret agent game as you'll giude Snake throught these special missions, The graphics are sharp and the lighting is fantastic. A wonderfully presented game. The gamplay is again very good, there are many games that struggle when ...  Read the complete review