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FPS Rantings

June 29th, 2008

Deconstructing Yahtzee’s Metal Gear Solid 4 review

Benjamin “Yahtzee” Croshaw thinks Metal Gear Solid 4 is a “stiff and inefficient” third person shooter,” mainly because of the controls. The game’s storyline was lambasted as well, but that was to be expected. Surprisingly, Yahtzee seems to hate MGS4 even more than Haze, which was universally reviled.
Tags: metal_gear_solid, metal_gear_solid_4, mgs, mgs4, video_reviews, yahtzee

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June 24th, 2008

MGS4 How To’s: Beat Vamp

So you’ve finally returned to Shadow Moses and had a good look at Metal Gear Rex (or what’s left of it). That’s when Vamp, the seemingly-immortal bad guy, jumps you. Fighting the guy seems easy enough, especially since his attacks aren’t particularly devastating or difficult to dodge. But when the battle extends to over 10 […]

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June 20th, 2008

NSFW: Snake snaps pictures of MGS4 beauties

If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid 4, then you probably know that there’s a feature to take pictures in there somewhere. Combine that with the gorgeous bosses Snake gets to fight, and you’ve got yourself a weird mix of disturbing NSFW videos.

Tags: beauties, bosses, metal_gear, metal_gear_solid_4, mgs4, nsfw, Videos

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June 19th, 2008

Battlefield pokes fun at Metal Gear

There’s a new video clip for Battlefield: Bad Company circulating in the internets. It looks like the Digital Illusions-created FPS is once again getting some sort of attention (cough *micropayments* cough), but not because of its merits.

Tell me, is the video clip funny, or is it as a pathetic attempt to get some […]

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June 19th, 2008

MGS4 playthrough: Could boss fights be not as good?

Pundits say that the PlayStation 3 provides über designer Hideo Kojima the platform to finally realize his vision for a Metal Gear game. I say hogwash. Kojima never did let hardware limitations prevent him from creating masterpiece upon masterpiece in the previous console generations.
Case in point: the brilliant boss fights. Each Metal Gear Solid installment […]

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June 17th, 2008

Crap-Detector: GameSpot gives two perfect scores in a span of seven weeks

Video gaming site GameSpot, whose reputation was recently tarnished because of Gerstmanngate, actually had the gall to hand out two perfect scores in a span of weeks. First was for Grand Theft Auto IV, which was released last April 29, and the second was for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which came […]

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June 17th, 2008

MGS4 playthrough: Liquid Sun is as hot as it gets

War may have changed in Snake’s tired eyes, but the trademark Metal Gear gameplay is still very much intact in stealth action game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. For the uninitiated, this involves getting from point A to point B without attracting any attention.
Moving between points isn’t so simple, however. The armed […]

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June 13th, 2008

1UP chimes in on Metal Gear Solid 4

The house that Shoe built has finally chimed in on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Did they like it? Watch and know.

If you’ve played MGS4 and agree/disagree with the review, I’d love to hear what you think.
Tags: 1up, guns_of_the_patriots, metal_gear, metal_gear_solid, metal_gear_solid_4, mgs4

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April 24th, 2008

New MGS4 trailer shows drama queen side of Solid Snake

If you’re a Metal Gear fan, then you’ve probably seen a fair share of Metal Gear Solid 4 trailers. You’ve probably even watched several long clips that showed the same crumbling desert town where the aging Solid Snake sneaks around. I have bad news and good news for this new trailer. First, the bad: you […]

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April 1st, 2008

Watch Altaïr fight Metal Gears

It’s not quite April Fool’s day on this side of the world, but I guess we can still consider it since the half is a day behind. Ever wondered how Altaïr of Assassin’s Creed would fare against the the no-place-to-hide battles of Metal Gear Solid 4? Wonder no more.

Tags: altair, assassin’s_creed, metal_gear, metal_gear_solid_4, mgs4, solid_snake

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February 29th, 2008

MGS4 is coming out on June 12

Here’s great news, courtesy of Spencer at Siliconera. Metal Gear Solid 4 would be released simultaneously worldwide on June 12. “But Mike, we already know that,” you say.
Think again. News sources (like GameSpot) merely announced that the game is coming in mid-June, but thanks to Siliconera, we now know that Konami is planning a simultaneous […]

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January 9th, 2008

New MGS4 video shows off an awesome arsenal

Metal Gear Solid 4 is certainly not just another sneak-fest. Sure, slinking around in a nifty camo suit may be teh roxxor, but seeing the cool new guns in this video would change your mind about shooting stuff up in first-person.

I don’t see a reticule, though the iron sights may do just fine. The weapons […]

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