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One of the best games I ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played video games all my life and I have never played a game with so much detail and action than this game. Most role playing video games normaly have a weak story line but not Metal Gear Solid, this game gives a great story with twists and turns.

Every Playstation Owner Should Have This Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid is quite possibly the best game out there. It's based on the idea that stealth is more important than running around mindlessly with a big gun. Of course, there are plenty of firefights, but all the sneaking gives the game more realism. And speaking of realism, this game has the best voice acting I've ever heard! However, the one thing that I think is best about MGS is the story. The twists keep cominbg right up until the end. The biggest complaint I've heard about MGS is that it's too short (about ten hours on the easy level). But if you play to get both endings and the cool stuff you get for winning on different difficulties, it should take at least two or three times through the game. Besides, Resident Evil 2 was even shorter, but it got nowhere near as many complaints for it. Anyway, MGS is an example of what a great game really is.

Metal Gear Solid review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

*****
It was a warm summer day, not too long ago when i strolled into my local gaming rental store. Not prepared that on this day, not only would I pick out a game, but one of the greatest, if not the greatest game ever. I wasn't prepared when I opened that cd and put it into my playstation that I would be glued there for the next 3 days strait. Metal Gear Solid in terms of gameplay, voice actors, fun level, and especially replay value is one of the best games to date. The only games that could match the fun I had playing MGS are Zelda:OOT and Goldeneye and neither had the great storyline that MGS did. First, the gameplay. The GP is some of the most innovative stuff since Mario Bros.- jump on bad guy's head and squash him- but seriously, this is the first game where you actually try to avoid gunfights. You hear; spy game, action game, you think big guns and blow everything up. Not in MGS, here that'll get you killed quick. Instead, you sneak up behind your enemy and choke him, then break his neck. "Why" you ask when I have a big gun? Because if enemies hear your gun they'll come running or if the guard alerts them to you they'll come running and in MGS, even with your big guns you can't fight off hordes of bad guys with equally bigger guns each. So the name of the game is stealth. With bosses it's different, each boss has a different patern and attacking style which you must learn in order to get past them. One boss is a six-gun wearin cowboy who only has six bullets to spare until he reloads, then takes off running. Another rides in a tank, another is a sniper and you must have a sniper dule, another is a huge mammoth of a guy who is a bird lovin', big ol' gatling gun totin' mean SOB. You have to work you're way through an inricate facility in order to find the hiding place of Metal Gear- the most dangerous weopon known to man. It's a 3 story tall walking battle tank that can fire a nuclear missile strike from anywhere in the world. As Solid Snake, retired member of the elite soldier group known as Fox-Hound . You're brought out of retirement when your old group re-surfaces and takes control of Metal Gear and starts making demands. Your mission is to sneak into the facility and find them, rescue the hostages and stop the nuclear launch, if they can indeed launch. Sounds like your basic spy movie but until you get into the game you have no idea what you're in for. I'm talkin government coverups and conspiracies, enemies among the peaple you trust, and a strange love that blossoms on the battlefield. Believe me, this game has enough action for the action game fan, enough puzzles and things to find for the puzzle fan, and a great story that tops that of best RPGs I've played. This game has something for everyone and everyone who is a true gamer should play this game at least once. I've played and beat it at least 7 times and I'm still not tired of it. The major complaint is that it's too short. Well, if you want to play through it enough to get both endings it should be short. I've even let my family, who knows nothing about video games, watch me play and beat it and even my mom loved it! Now it must have a good story to impress her! In closing I'll say this: Metal Gear set a new standard for action/adventure games in the 80's, now, Metal Gear Solid has raised that standard higher than I, for one, thought it could ever be raised. This game is a true classic!

Never gets you bored!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. The graphics are ok, but the storyline and missions are great. I have owned this game for almost two years now, and I'm still not tired of it. The fact that you're running around as a spy, you have a built in COM to talk to anyone at anytime, and the weapons are great. Very realistic game.

READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: February 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

OK. I think that most people have blindly accepted this game as one of the "messiahs" of the gaming world just because of all the media and commercial hype but lets take a closer look. Over all this is a ver innovative experience. The movie like intro with the credits panning in and out. The beautiful graphics fluidly showing you the landscape with a spy movie-like twist, the control of snake being perfect for sneaking around and crisp clear color and animation. When you turn this game on you can hardly stay in your seat with exitement of where it will take you. And it does take you somewhere. The scenery is very atmospheric. When you go outside and the snow is falling, guards are walking to and fro, the air is somehow crisp and chilly looking, breath smoke rising from open mouths. You sneak around boxes and walls and i must say that this part, when you first play the game is one of the most beautiful moments in videogame history thus far. You sneak, your foot prints are left in the snow, the guard walks by unwittingly and you continue, climbing into a truck, avoiding cameras and making your way around this compound unnoticed. This game would be one of my favorite games ever if....they only would have stuck with this format. The game quickly becomes a soap opera. Snake gets into these hour long conversations over with his contacts about his life, his brother, his social history, and their social histories and on and on and on and on and on and blah blah blah blah blah blah. I love story but this game becomes, early on, just that. You walk alittle, fight alittle , read alot. I found myself getting pist off and turning the game off because of all the talking. It really became ridiculous. I couldn't believe that the makers of the game didn't see how much of an overkill the story was becoming. This was a great game that failed in delivering what it seemed to be delivering in the first place. If you can get a cheap copy, take it but dont waste too much time with this. There are so many cool games out there to play instead of watching this soap opera.

Metal Gear Solid is the greatest game for playstation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid is by far one of the greatest games ever made it has a very good storyline (you won't understand it unless you play through the whole game)the puzzles may be a little chalenging for the young kids it has superb graphics if you are a fan of espionage games this is a must buy GAMING TIP: use stealth and don't go around shooting everthing in sight and put on one of the cardboard boxes and go in the back of a truck and see what happens

Hands down the best game for action fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I own a gaming PC, an N64, Dreamcast, Playstation and everything that came before them and this game rocks everything else the other platforms have to offer. It's a simple premise of "stealth"-- means you best try to avoid direct conflict or you'll get creamed every time. Your character must sneak between AI soldiers, cameras, and bosses that can actually predict your moves! Training levels that actually help in your story misson, more weapons than Bond could fit in his tuxedo (Snake has one too). I recomend this game to the target audience of the mature gamer, language and political themes may not be suitable for children (not to mention violence). The story is worthy of special mention in more conventional media like television and films. If games got hollywood style awards, this game deserves an oscar. No kidding folks it's that good.

Best Action Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although I am a hardcore RPGer, I enjoy a Goldeneye once in a while. Last summer, my friend brought over his Playstation and a copy of MGS. The first time I played it, I was amazed (and dead in a few minutes.) It has awesome graphics, and cool, right out of the movies cinematics. And did I mention the storyline? It's full of unexpected twists and is very well written. It could pass as a interactive movie on your PSX. The AI is top notch, the weapons and their effects are realistic. You can even smoke cigarettes. Being an RPGer, it seemed a little short, but playing it over again gives you extras like invisibility and infinite ammo, and gives you a code-rank to tell you how good a player you are. Try to get the "Fox" code name.

Solid vs Liquid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You control Solid Snake, a retired military guy. Your mission is to find out where the terrorists are keeping the secret weapon. Upon your quest, you find Liquid Snake, your evil brother. This isn't just another game full of gunfights; if you charge into every enemy you see, you won't make it. The voice is awesome. This would be a awesome movie! The bosses require stratagies. Yes. The game is short. But, you'll have to play through it multiple times to see multiple endings and use the extras you get for beating the game.

Quite Possibly the Most Wonderful Game Ever Created!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Back when MGS came out for the PSone, I was still stuck in my "N64" mode. I thought that no game could surpass anything ever made on the Nintendo 64, and I thought that the Playstation was a joke. Man, was I wrong. MGS is, without a doubt, the best game I have ever played, and one of the best video games ever created. As Solid Snake, you must infiltrate a nuclear storage base in Alaska and stop a group of terrorists (your former unit) from unleashing nuclear weapons on the world. What you find out when you go deeper into the base is that your worst nightmare is back: Metal Gear. Code-named Metal Gear "Rex", this three-story tall monstrosity is, in essence, a walking battletank with the ability to launch a nuclear warhead from anywhere in the world. Since I don't want to spoil the plot for anyone, I will say simply this; this game has the best plotline of any game I have ever played. It is a smart, stylish story conveyed through wonderful cutscenes. It will have you playing all the way through just to see what happens to Solid Snake, and to see the great cut scenes. This game has everything, from action, to covert spying, to international espionage, and even romance. The play control and weapon selection for this game are some of the best and the graphics, even in the PS2 era, are amazing and perfectly suited to this game. If you buy this game, you will definitely not be disappointed. Simply put, it is AMAZING, and should not be missed by anyone who even remotely likes video games.

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