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Spectacular Graphics & Game but....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars because I didn't like all the cinema in the game. If I really wanted to watch the game instead of play- I would take my butt to a movie or pop in a DVD. I was bored to death with it all.

With that said, this is a great game, the plot line is a little shotty, but the graphics are great, and I love how he can grip, jump, and make your enemy put his hands up and say, "Don't shoot." Yes he still can get a cold and I caught one in the beginning of the game go figure.

Anyone who enjoys a good thinking game, RPGs, this game is for you. I even liked the idea of making the silencer a different kind of sleeping weapon. Who needs all that blood. I am glad they were thinking about the kids when making the second game. Anyway, you will fully enjoy this game, but you will watch a lot of movie time. But press the X button and your on your way to some great missions.

A Game Of Many Contrasts

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Metal gear 2 is a game of many contrasts that I will discuss in this review. First let's start with the gameplay: I've never been a huge fan of this franchise to begin with and while I do like how the game mixes things up some times by introducing different styles of play, I have never found it that rewarding. I also think that the guards (enemies) are ridiculously stupid, I mean you can actually stand about ten feet in front of a guy and he won't notice you. How are you supposed to feel good about your stealthing abilities if the guards are that stupid. Don't get me wrong I do like this game, in fact I liked this game in some ways that apparently other gamers didn't. Which brings me to the next part of the review, the story: The word on this game is that it has a bad story, now I don't think the story is the problem; my main grip was with the script. I thought the script was at most times just plain lame. The stuff with Raiden's girlfriend Rose is especially horrible and comes pretty close to ruining the game completely. It's just so utterly bad, the dialog seems to have been taken from a romance novel that was written by some pubescent teenage girl. But beyond the script I thought the overall story was actually pretty good. That said let's get to the final part of my review, which is the graphics: MGS 2 probably shines best in this category. I think the visuals are very good and this is coming from someone who is reviewing this game about a full year after it's original release. The shadow and lighting effects are quite impressive and the character models are great, I also appreciated the amount of detail put into generally every aspect of the levels. My only real complaint about the graphics is with were you spend most of your time in the game, the off shore treatment plant. In my opinion the tanker level, which you start on while playing as Solid Snake, was much more appealing. I found the plant to be a little bland quite frankly and also somewhat boring. It seems to me that the developers spent a lot more time on the much shorter tanker portion of the game and kind of skimped out on the vastly longer lasting treatment plant part, and I'm not just talking about the graphics ether, I'm talking about virtually every aspect of the game.
To some up my general opinion of this videogame I think I'd say that it's a lot like a big Hollywood blockbuster; it had a lot of hype surrounding it that it probably didn't live up to, it had great special effects backed by a questionable script, and it defiantly made a lot of money. Also like a big Hollywood movie there's probably a lot of better stuff out there that you're going to miss. But that said I still enjoyed this title and can't say that I wouldn't go out and bye the next one. (and there will be a next one) I guess as a man who appreciates a quality, well rounded game it has become sort of a guilty pleasure.

Three stars!

FIVE STARS!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just picked up my own copy of MGS2 today and the graphics are unbelieveable. This game so fluid and the effects are mind-boggling. IGN gave this game a great rating and rightly so. If you do not rent or buy or play this game at all, you will miss out in quite a bit. I just snuck behind a guard and made him surrender....then I shot him anyway (hehehe). Even if you don't play the game, if you witness someone playing it first-hand, you absolutely have to watch the introduction. It is hands down the best introduction I've seen in a video game.

I bought a PS2 for three main reasons
1) It plays DVD's
2) It plays PS1 AND PS2 games and lastly...
3) It has Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Go and buy this game now. You won't be sorry.

this game frigin rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game ever. I highly recomend this game if you played(and liked)metal gear solid 1. It rocks the graphics and challenge of this game makes it the best ever game. Once again I highly recomend this game.

Words can't describe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely the best game for any system out there. If you liked MGS:1 then I highly reccomend buying this game. So much more to do than the first one. In this one you can accually "free shoot" at different things. (And the pics inside the lockers are great.)I would go over the maximum of 1,000 words that is limited to a review if I was to use every word to descibe this game. There is one word that I hate using because it's so common but I keep coming back to it. Cool.

Too bad it had to live up to it's predecessor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

See? This is why I hate it when people review something they have not played yet!!!
Ok so where to start? Well let's see...
I feel tricked since looking at the box cover, reviews the demo release with Z.O.E. and all pictures on the Internet someone would assume that you play with Solid Snake, well, nothing further from the truth, you take the role of Solid Snake only at the very beginning, the prologue, pretty much, looking for the new Metal Gear.
The dialog on this game is ANOYING! at certain parts of the game there is so much dialog that in 1 hour there are only 7 minutes of game play, the rest is basically cut-scene, which would not bother me if it were relevant to the game but it turns into a soap opera when the characters start talking about material that is completely irrelevant to the game play in, what my guess is, the desperate attempt to add some drama. I do like it when game designers add some drama to their games, but you have to see for your own eyes what I am talking about. Now I know I can stop these scenes with the tap of a button but I really don't want to disrupt the story since that is a mayor point in Metal Gear.
I'm not saying you should save your money, the game is worth purchasing, but I don't agree to the fact that while GameSpot gave Metal Gear Solid a score of 8.5 and a 9.6 to this one. In my opinion the score should be the other way around since "Sons of Liberty" is still a good game but it does not measure up to it's predecessor.
The good things,
The graphics are spectacular, especially some of the cut-scenes are so mesmerizing that left me awed.
The game play is as smooth as it's original, there are a few things they have added, like you can hang from walls, that do take things a step up.
The story, well sorry, I said the good things :), I just wish there was a little less dialog that's all, and some of you are going to miss Solid Snake (even though he is in the game you don't play him any more)
The soundtrack is pretty good, it does give the right atmosphere at all times, sometimes it overtakes the actors voice and is a bit tough to hear what they are saying, as so do the sound effects (which are also great)
In any case, I hope you enjoy the game, it's a good game, but be forewarned it does not have the replay value it's predecessor had.

Could be the best ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just rented Zone of the Enders so that I could get my hands on the demo for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation is my favorite game of all time and its second coming will not dissapoint. The demo starts off with a beautiful cinematic scene that leads right into the gameplay. The transition from cinema to in-game graphics is seamless. Once you get the idea of how to play the game and what your purpose is, that is when the fun begins.

This is the most realistic game I have ever played, and I'm 21 year old who's been playing since the days of Pong. There are so many things you can do. You can put an enemy to sleep and then drag him around. You can throw him off of the ship or hide him in a locker so that others won't find him and be alerted. You can choke the enemy to death instead of putting them to sleep. You could just get it over with quickly and shoot them, putting them out of their misery. The list goes on and on. From ice melting to an extremely interactive environment - if you see it you can shoot it or do something with it - REAL doesn't come close enough to describing this game.

The graphics are beautiful (rain and lighting effects are astonishing, as are the realistic trails of blood, how glass breaks, muzzle flashes, explosions, animation, etc.) and are only outshone by the spectacular gameplay. It's intuitive and very fun. I have been playing the demo for two days straight after work and still cannot get enough. The story is interesting as well, and I'm interested to see how the voice-acting is in the North American release (in the demo, the spoken voices are in Japanese, and there are subtitles).

I cannot wait for the full game to be realeased. It's a total shame that I have a life because come November 16th, my girlfriend, family, fraternity brothers, and teachers might forget who I am because I'll be playing this game non-stop.

My only minor gripe is that the collision detection for an enemy soldier being carried hasn't been perfected. Their limbs are supposed to react to running into walls, being dragged down stairs, etc, but so far all they do is clip and go right through the object. I'm sure this will be fixed by the final release (at least this is what I have been led to believe) and if so this game will be well worth 5 stars as the greatest game ever made. Even if this problem isn't fixed, it should still retain that title. If you liked the first, played any of the old Metal Gears, possibly on the good old NES, or ar a fan of stealth, action, or adventure games, you should be just as excited as I am for this game to be released. It'll be a happy Thanksgiving for sure.

MGS2 IS THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To all you mgs lovers out there, if you like the first one you'll like this, this game has the best graphic's that anyone has ever seen before, they'll be talking about this game for years to come. Snake has loads of new move's that he can do, like a dive into a roll, or the new first person view. If you want to sample this fantastic game, get your self down to you nearest game store and buy (the also just as exicting) zone of the enders. With zoe you get a free, yes a free demo of mgs2, this has been out for sometime so if you don't have it yet, where the hell have you been!! I think one of the best parts of the game is the effects, there truely amazing, the rain, the blood, the foot prints. Any one that would see it would think it was a film! If you don't get this game you will be missing out on one of the best, most wicked titles to come out on the ps2!! And i hope you will enjoy it as much i will!! c ya

wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the first metal gear on psx was fun and the sequal looks even better the graphics are amazing and i cant wait until november 16th!

MetalGearSolid2:Sons of Liberty

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

MetalGearSolid2 is the best game I have ever seen.It has good graphics with Snake and all the rest of the characters .It has Great weather in this game and great water. It has all of these storymodes that you can spend hours watching so I think it is the best game.

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