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Customer Reviews of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

Cons:
Difficult to control
Questionable aspect in story
Overly dramatic cutscenes

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (MGS2) is a welcome addition to any XBOX gamer,
especially for those who like Japanese Anime, especially those overly dramatic
Animes that for me personally, is annoying. Moreover, unconventional and
somewhat confusing style of control takes a little getting used to--after bouts
of frustrating trials and errors.

The game has two main levels, Tanker and Plant. There are other smaller levels,
under Missions and Snake's Tales which I have not played yet (and not covered
in this review). There are additionally reference materials that add to the
background.

In the first level, you play as Snake (the guy with the mullet) to infiltrate
inside a cargo ship that has the superweapon, Metal Gear. Unknown to the
operators (US Marines), the Russians have secretly infiltrated as well in an

attempt to steal the weapon. Your mission is to find and photograph the weapon
while avoiding enemies. Simple.

The second level has you playing another character also named Snake, but has his
name (these are mission names) changed to Raiden. Raiden is somewhat annoying,
and I found the story/plot development strange with the involvement of his
girlfriend as a mission specialist--which I will cover later.

The game is played in a 3/4-format--most of the time. At times as the character

moves, the camera angle switches automatically. Sometimes the placement is not
where you'd expect, and you end up with a character that had been sneaking along
the wall to his left, suddenly sneak along to his right, or worse, start running
somewhere you don't want to. I think it may have to do with the
preference--having played Splinter Cell where I had total control over the
camera angles, it took a while to get familiarized with the controls. Moreover,
you have to switch between 3rd person and 1st person view if you want to shoot
and hit your target. But while in the 1st person view, you can only look--no
movement is allowed--which makes it incredibly frustrating: The 3rd person view
does not allow you to see exactly where your character is looking, so often
times as I switch he's looking the wrong way! Luckily, the enemy AI is so dumb
that he can't see you (let along hear you) 20 feet away.

As you progress, you are confronted with "boss" enemies which I believe are
ridiculous given the nature of this game ("Tactical Espionage Action"). In
between, there are myriads of cutscenes that are beautifully rendered and for
the most part, acted well, and if seeing for the first time, add valuable
insight to the story. If not, you can mercifully skip them.

And the cutscenes is where I find overly dramatic nature of some Japanese Animes
so irritating. I think that's personal preference, though. However, the story
between Raiden and his girlfriend Rose leaves a lot to be desired. I don't know
about you, but if my significant other was involved in a mission that was
life-or-death, I probably would not keep asking "Do you know what day tomorrow
is?" and other very personal--yet so engmatic questions that only females are
capable of asking. She reminds me of my past loves--always asking questions that
I had no answers to leaving it up to me to figure it out... but I should stop
talking about that!

The game is very tactical. A radar appears on the top left corner to let you see
where your enemies are, and their field of vision. It's not terribly hard to see
your enemies, which sometimes diminishes the suspense. Thankfully, the radar can
be turned off. On the other hand, I didn't find the game terribly
stealthy like Splinter Cell, but both reward you if you're patient and put in a
lot of thought. This is NOT a game where you can walk in and start
shooting. Patience and strategy is rewarded.

Naturally, action sometimes can't be avoided. Because the game requires you to
constantly switch between 3rd person and 1st person because at critical moments,
you can't exactly tell where your character is looking at. Additionally, the
game controls the camera angles, not you. In that sense, I didn't find the
controls even remotely intuitive, and led to many frustrating bouts of trials
and errors.

Graphics is good as any good XBOX game, with complex objects (most of which are
not interactive) and good lighting effects. Music is superb, as well is the menu
and general interface (NOT the character movement).

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance is a game for those who enjoy strategic games. It
takes a bit of getting used to, but you should give it a try regardless.

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Solid Snake comes to XBOX in Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance, the expanded edition of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty with all-new game modes, hidden characters and storylines. Top-secret weapons technology is being mysteriously transported under cover of an oil tanker to an unknown destination. Armed with an arsenal of new weapons, supplies and stealth moneuvers, it's up to Snake to infilutrate the transport and keep this deadly weapon of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands!

350+ VR missions and 150+ alternative missions, Play through 5 new playable characters and game modes. Contains the entire Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty game plus the debut of the casting theater and Boss Survival mode! Utilize stealth and inflitration methods, such as diving sumersaults, hanging from ledges and using disguises. Powerful musical score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Armageddon, The Rock), and XBOX's version includes in-game Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, enhanced graphics, smoother animation, and many other exclusive XBOX features!

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