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So much potential, but ruined by an awful camera system
As I write this, I'm about 90% of the way through this game. You play as Snake, a commando who must navigate his way through enemy territory to thwart the communist plans to develop a new ICBM launcher. <
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>The first bad thing you'll notice as you play this is the cut scenes. During the first three hours of the game, you'll only play for about 1/2 hour. The other two and a half hours you'll be sitting there watching it. The cut-scenes unfortunately are pretty awful. Snake talks in a monotone throughout the whole thing, making it almost comical in it's badness. So much of the stuff is just incredibly boring to sit through. It would be really boring as a movie, it's even more boring when you were expecting a game you could actually play instead of sitting and watching. By the halfway point of the game, the cut-scenes decrease in volume and actually become pretty good, but by then it's just too late. You're so sick of watching the game that even good cut-scenes can't save it. <
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>The other gigantic problem is the camera system. You get a third person view which only extends for a short distance around your character. Enemies will almost always attack from beyond that distance, so you'll have bullets flying at you and you can't see where they're coming from. So you switch to first person view - the problem being that you can't move while in this view - you can only stand still and turn. If you've got someone shooting at you, it means that all the other bad guys in the area have been alerted so there will immediately be four or five guys after you. Trying to fight five guys with the awful camera system is an exercise in frustration. You stand in place, aiming your gun. Just as you get one guy in your sights, another guy (who has run right up to you while you were aiming your gun, but you couldn't see him) will knock you down. You get up and try to aim again, and just as you've got the enemy in your sights, you get knocked down again. This is the routine throughout the entire game. <
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>Overall, this game is completely ruined by the awful camera system and the ludicrous amounts of really bad cut-scenes at the beginning. I hear that Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence is the same game except with an improved camera system and online play - I would definitely urge people to give that one a try instead. It speaks volumes that the manufacturer would go through all the trouble and expense to release the identical game with a new camera system. They wouldn't do that if the original camera system didn't suck so incredibly bad. I could almost sit through the cut-scenes if there were some good game play to look forward to, but this game leaves you with nothing but frustration.

Great game in the series
This is my favorite Metal Gear game. Snake fights very well. Snake is much more skilled in this game with hand-to-hand combat than the earlier Metal Gear games. He can quickly and easily take out many enemies with simple hand-to-hand combat techniques. The different difficulty levels make a big difference for an increased challenge. A must-have for Metal Gear fans.