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NOT AS GOOD AS METAL GEAR

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As soon as you start the game, you know that Snake's Revenge is a very different Metal Gear game. For one, you start off the game with a Beretta and a knife as opposed to your bare fists. For the first few minutes of the game, you'll be walking around the forest, dodging spot lights and strange flying craft. The storyline in this game is not as strong as in the first one. Also, the atmosphere in Metal Gear was so much more drab and menacing, wheras Snake's Revenge is full of bright corridors and sunny outdoor environments. This time around, it seems that the developers were more concerned about variety than game-quality. There's a train, a desert fortress, a bridge, a jungle, and many other locales. The newest addition to this game, though, is the use of a side view. The side view can be interesting at times, but I overall wish they had left it out. But to me, the most frustrating part is the end. After defeating the ending boss, you go out a door and arrive at door number 1, door number 2, and door number 3. I've played this game for hours and hours on end and I could NEVER figure out how to open them. Weapons didn't work, or even security cards. But in addition to that, you can backtrack through most of the game. Overall, Snake's Revenge is a good game for the NES, but it just didn't capture me the way Metal Gear did.

the worst of the Metal Gear series

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the most difficult of all the Metal Gear games. Playing through on my own, I was never able to get past the first major boss (a bunch of guys who get into a football stance and rush you). I'm not proud to admit that I could only get past this game with the Game Genie. It is one of the few games that I had to cheat to win. This is also the red-headed step child of the Metal Gear series. When Metal Gear Solid was released on the PSX, it referred to the game with the Zanzibar mission as Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. This confused me because Snake's Revenge for the NES was the Zanzibar mission. Apparently, there is an unreleased (in America) Metal Gear 2, but we got Snake's Revenge. They aren't the same game, but at the same time.....the mission is the same. I don't fully understand this.

Much like in the first Metal Gear, Solid Snake begins in a jungle and must infiltrate a base. The play control is similar to the first Metal Gear game, but for some reason it isn't as fun. The difficulty was ramped up very early in the game, and as it seems that the makers of Metal Gear have almost disavowed the existence of this game....this is a very forgettable game. Not very good, but if you must play every Metal Gear game in existence, don't forget about this one.

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