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Now that I've played more than the Demo...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 67 / 82
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As promised I'd post an actual review of the game after beating it to a pulp.

Needless to say that this is an amazing game with a gripping story, and defintely a worthy sequal. To say that it has perfect top notch graphics and music that will blow you away. Not to mention its great character development and plot twists.

I won't give away any of the story where as to me (and a lot of other people) this game has some of the best Plot twist in history. All I will say is that the game is divided into two parts. The "Tanker" chapter and the "Plant" chapter. They both link in everyway and you can see if you play through the game.

The characters are a true treat in this game. There are several new characters introduced and they all have their own reasons for being where they are. However the main villian...compared to Liquid Snake isn't the best. Next to Kefka (FFVI) Liquid was probably the best villian of all time. In comparison, the main villian didn't live up to Liquid.

The music is breathtaking done by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Rock and Enemy of the State if you don't know him). The music will really catch you, and that intro music is just awesome!

I'm not much for graphics but I will say that the graphics are so good that when watching the cinema scenes they look like real people! Can't go wrong with that. Also, the voice acting is sheer brilliance. They actually show emotion and they have a change in tone when they're upset or sad.

It'll take you about 10-15 hours to complete the game your first time through but it is worth it. However, movie cinemas make up at least six hours of the game. This may bother some people as they said the first one was short. Sorry to say that the game is NOT short. But that means you actually HAVE TO WATCH THE CGs!!!! Also, watching the CGs is the only way to understand anything thats going on.

The game doesn't really present any BIG challenge. In fact with the new gear and stuff you can do I'd say it makes the game EASIER than the first (is that possible!?). To say the least though the new gear isn't much different from the old gear in MGS.

Lastly the fun factor. The game is very fun if you don't take it too seriously. What I mean by that is don't be ashsmaed to break some of the stealth rules and have fun with the guards every once and awhile. That was the funnest part of the first one.

One final note. In the HARD and EXTREME difficulty setting you can choose to have a game over if you're spotted. Being that you take so much damage I'd probaly suggest that you take that oppertunity on EXTREME.

OVERALL
Graphics: 10

Plot/Story: 10

Music: 10

Gameplay: 9

Fun Factor: 10

Overall score: 9.9

You won't be disappointed

Can't Wait For its release

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 38
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok the one on the Playstation, is one of THE BEST GAMES THAT I HAVE EVER PLAYED. It had a great plot, one that beat many good movies, and the Game play is Solid like Snake. YOu focus on stealth and to avoid fighting but sometimes you have to fight, and they are some pretty cool fights, one has you fighting a tank! Another has you runing up up about 20 flights of stairs with a squad of Baddies on your tail armed with fully auto rifles. Nwow on to the second one, it hasen't been released yet but after playing the demo I think it will be great to. The gameplay should be as good if not better than the first. And you can do so much more here, like hiding in lockers or in a dark corner as the gaurds pass. The A.I. is great, if an enemy spots you he'll radio for back up, unless you have shot his radio or if you catch him off gaurd hell give up with his hands in the air, but if you lower your gun he'll fire his. And if he does call for back up the enemy comes in with better wepons body armor, and sometimes even have riot shields, which you bullets can't penetreate. And this is just the demo! The story sound cool but you never can tell if it'll be better than the first.

Previewed Metal Gear Demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 28
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played the actual game yet, but from playing the demo I was very impressed with the level of detail involved with animations and actions. I noticed Konami payed attention to small details such as background damage and rain effects. When developers pay that much attention to small details, I can expect just as much detail in other areas. If you haven't played Metal Gear Solid, give it a try.

konami does it again - snake is back and he has bite!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, this is what you've been waiting for -- and believe me, it exceeds even my wildest expectations. All of those delays have been worth it, as the graphics, storyline, and gameplay are years ahead of anything you've ever seen before or will see in the forseeable future. snake has a range of movement and weapons at his disposal that are so well-thought through and fluid that you are completely drawn into the game, reacting to every spine-tingling situation as though your life and that of every freedom loving person on the globe truly hung in the balance. At this level of gameplay, if you think it, you can do it. I'm warning you - you may never see the light of sun again, but when this is the alternative, that may not be a bad thing. to get in on the excitement, there are only three things that you need to do: 1.) quit your job and dump your girl. 2.) buy a years worth of chips and bandages for the blisters. 3.) contact konami...and request your...demo to feed your addiction til the impossibly distant release date... good luck til then, and keep on gaming!

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.

oh my god

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is the greatest game ever. its about 1000 times better than the first one. if you like role playing games you will like this. if you like shooting games you will like this game.i definately recommend buying this.

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.

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.

A Masterpiece -- if you have some patience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: December 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (MGS2) is, without a doubt, the most advanced piece of interactive entertainment published to date on a console system. The graphics, sound, and gameplay are all top-notch, and it has more storyline and history than you can shake a stick at. If you haven't seen the demo or downloadable movie preview, download it or buy/rent Zone of The Enders and check it out. You'll be hooked. They've improved on the original Metal Gear Solid in every way possible; all the control and view issues I had problems with in the first game are gone, and the gameplay has more depth and new moves, weapons, and tactics for you to learn. The story picks up a few years after the first (or rather, third) game left off, and some very interesting documents you can access from the game menus give a fresh perspective on the behind-the-scenes events of the first game.

So what's wrong with MGS2? Nothing, if you ask me, but a number of reviewers have taken issue with it being "boring" and having an ending that mostly consists of an hour of watching video cutscenes instead of running around and shooting things (although there's a decent amount of that leading up to the end). This is *not* a shoot-em-up game. It says right on the box: "Tactical Espionage Action", not "Vaporize Terrorist Scum". You spend a lot of time sneaking around and avoiding people, listening in on conversations and the like -- your end-of-game ranking actually gets *worse* if you kill enemies (there's a tranqulizer gun available for those times when you have to incapacitate someone, if you don't want to kill them). And on the higher difficulty settings, you don't have a choice; you'll quickly be wiped out if discovered and attacked. The plot is long, twisted, and makes the one in Metal Gear Solid seem simple by comparison. Be prepared for surprises.

As for the ending, it isn't a simple "they stop the terrorists and all live happily ever after" affair -- and frankly, if you were expecting one, you'd be disappointed. It is fairly long (though punctuated by several boss fights), but if you care about figuring out *why* everything in the game is happening, and who's really behind the terrorist conspiracy (and who this Raiden guy you've been playing as really is), it's very interesting. After you've seen it, though, you'll probably have more questions about what was going on than you did halfway through the game. I'm already waiting for MGS3.

So, if you have some patience, feel sneaky, and want an incredibly cinematic gaming experience, pick up Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty. Otherwise, stick to Red Faction, where you can blow things up to your heart's content.

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