Voltaire
Good Old Metal Gear, it has come from a long way as we see it today. Nowadays, people play it because you have the option to do the following: would you kill to continue or would you sneak around and keep thier name as a pacifist? a true question only a snake would know.
Metal Gear is an stealth action game involving a protagenist, Solid Snake, through various locations, while avoiding visual contact and direct confrontation with patrolling guards.
This was the first game to give a player the opportunity to aviod his enimies instead of running and gunning like an American would do (I would).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzuDNIKua8
If the player is seen, the game enters the "Alert Mode." In this situation, Snake must escape from enemy's sight in order to resume infiltration. The method of escaping varies depending on the situation. If a person sees you, get out of the room, and go back in (nes low capability for the win), or defeat the enemy (the purpose is to be stealthy, but sometimes people may not have a choice).
Occasionally if the player defeats a guard with punches without alerting anyone, the defeated guard will yield a single unit of rations or an ammo box that can be picked up. Do not think it is over yet until the player will also be confronted by mercenaries who will challenge the you to combat, serving as the game's boss characters
In case you have no idea what you are doing, I recommend using the transiver that the game has to offer that will point you into the right direction. However, there is a huge problem with the system that I will talk about later in my experience.
my perspective:
I can explain this game in one world: interesting. I remember this game, it came in a hacked controller that lets me pay over 300 Nes games (I hope this is legal). This was one of the games I continue to play because my friend told me this game play was different than what he had ever played. He told me to try to sneak by my enemies instead of killing them (blame Contra on this one). The games gives you guns, but I rarely use them (only to kill dogs. No, I am not a animal hater, they just want to eat my face). The game is solid for what it is trying to do, but there are some major issues that the game that could be improved on. The first problem are the cards I need to access doors. I thought it was not going to be a problem, but after playing this game with bottemless pits everywhere, it gets real old, fast. You keep your guns after you die, but you must do everything all over again as if you somehow found the important parts.
Nostalgic:
This game, once again brought me to my knees on how many times I died because of cheap deaths (I guess I like them, a lot). The game play was pretty much straight foward, go into the bad guys base and invade/kill enemies to contiue the games. Some people did not like this game
Rating: I'll give it an 8/10. To me, this game had potential, but some parts had some problems and the original creator should have been part of this release. At least the snake we know now-a-days is cool.
"Would you kill to continue or would you sneak around and keep thier name as a pacifist? - a true question only a snake would know." I'm liking the Solid Snake reference here. In all honesty, I think Metal Gear Solid as a whole has a great storyline and memorable characters; however, I'm just not too fond of the gameplay. Stealth isn't my cup of tea, I guess. The best defense is a good offense, I always say! Anyway, about Metal Gear NES in particular, I'd have to say that the game sounds rather tedious overall. I mean, how many times can you repeat a level without getting annoyed of the fact that you keep falling down a hole? Props to you for not giving up. Plus, I imagine that the storyline moves along slowly, making it a bit boring. Well, that's just my opinion. I must admit that Snake is a pretty cool character these days, though (but that still doesn't mean I can tolerate his voice). This was a fun review to read - even for a non-Metal Gear lover like me.
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