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Don't believe the hype!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, I never write reviews for anything but after getting juiced for $50 on this t**d, I felt it was the right thing to do.

The Good: The graphics, sound, variety of weapons, level design, boss characters.

The Bad: Where do I start? The Story is terrible and the dialogue is tedious and mostly unimportant (nothing beats a 10 minute discussion about the creature from the black lagoon every time you save the game) The AI is terrible-nothing says 'realism' like killing guards in broad daylight, running and hiding in the weeds for a minute and having the guards go back on their posts. "Hey Bill just got shotgunned by some guy who popped out of the woods. We couldn't find him so I'm just gonna go back to what I was doing." The whole stealth element of the game is totally pointless on most levels because you can just blast (and choke) your way through most levels. Its even more pathetic because you will get radio messages telling you to make sure the guards don't find you. Why? i'll just take the shotgun and kill every guard in sight. Its not like you can't get shot 50 times before getting kiiled. The new camoflage system looks nice but I just can't see changing my clothes and makeup 5 or 6 times during a mission-sounds like a barbie game. The camera makes me want to rip my hair out at times and the controls are just as frustrating. Bottom line is that this game has been over-hyped and that while it does have 'new' and 'exiting' features, they are marginal improvements and I would rather play the original.

The worst MGS ever. Kojima ruined the series.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 24
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I remember the classic days of MGS 1. When MGS 2 came out, I was sooo excited and I loved every minute of it....until Kojima ruined it and made me play as girly Raiden. So when I heard about MGS 3, I thought, "Yes! Kojima is bringing back Solid Snake and this one will be the true sequel to the twin snakes!" Well it isn't solid snake. Its boring Naked Snake aka big boss. The storyline is boring, the music sucks and so do the supporting characters.

Don't even get me started on the gameplay. They ruined the entire STEALTH ESPIONAGE ACTION style from MGS1 & MGS2. There is no more espionage or stealth. You spend half the game in the menu system changing clothes, performing surgery, or eating - all of which were horrible additions to this crap game. The enemies always see you and due to the crap camera (which is GOOD for MGS2 because it is INDOORS), you can't see them.

All I wanted was another adventure with Solid Snake and Otacon. One more time. One more mission. Going around and finding the best strategy to get through a room of enemies.

Metal Gear never took itself too seriously, which is also one thing I loved. Now Kojima tried to make this too much like Splinter Cell (which is awful), and MGS 3 ended up boring and overly serious with no light hearted elements.

F-

My letter to Hideo Kojima (if I ever made it)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 58
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dear Hidio Kojima,

Hideo Kojima can you PLEASE stop putting sexual stuff in Metal Gear Solid!!!!!! We all hated naked Raiden in MGS 2:SOL, most of you liked cambells niece whatever her name is in her underwear in MGS:TTS, and now Eva's Bra is sticking out (most of you will love it I bet). I am 12 years old, I play Socom 1 and 2, and I want to get into Metal Gear Solid, so Hideo Kojima can you please take out all the sexual stuff in MGS. Thanks.

I PAID TO PLAY A GAME NOT TO WATCH IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

TOO MUCH 'WATCHING' NOT ENOUGH PLAYING.

ITS LIKE A MOVIE, A $50 MOVIE. COMPANY COMPENSATES BY PUTTING CINEMA SCENES IN A VIDEO GAME.

TALK ABOUT LAZY. WASTE OF MONEY.

WITHOUT ALL OF THE CUT SCENES, THE GAME IS MAYBE 4 HOURS. WHAT A RIPOFF.

What a terrible movie; I hope they don't make a video-game out of it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: May 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having just finished this game a couple of hours ago, I'm finally ready to speak of it. I have been a fan of the MGS series- I loved MGS, Virtual Missions, and I even enjoyed the plot-heavy MGS2. But this... this... anti-game has forever destroyed my taste for the series.

Because this game is riding the edge of what video games are traditionally considered to be, and not in a good way. Hideo Kojima has, under the guise of creating a video-game, has made a sprawling, meandering, poorly paced, poorly written, confusing, nonsensical, pretentious and insulting spy/political/guy-making-a-tommy-gun-out-of-bees thriller, in which you are actually allowed to interact with the characters and control the events in the less important parts. Imagine a long, long, long movie broken up into a hundred parts, and each part is playing at a different theater in town. Effectively, the video-game element of this cinematic miscarriage is you driving from theater to theater to see the next episode of this monumentally bad movie.

The sad part is that this... whatever it is... actually has some very innovative and engaging gameplay and atmospheric graphics. But these are like candy sprinkles on dog feces, and it's hard to get excited about the sprinkles when they are presented to you in the context of a hearty meal of canine excrement.

Hideo Kojima must have reached Spielbergian or Lucasian status in Japan, because the sheer amount of pretension and ridiculousness of this project bespeaks of a man surrounded by highly paid assistants systematically trained to agree with whatever idea might come into his head, regardless of how divorced it is from common sense or common taste. I imagine Hideo Kojima sits somewhere in a diamond encrusted sensory deprivation chamber with a tape recorder, occasionally opening his eyes and spitting out conceptual fragments like "what about a Chinese/Russian/US secret agent, who is actually the last survivor of Atlantis, who is actually as self-generating AI in a computer program that exists in the dreams of a coma-victim soldier who himself was a Chinese/Russian/US secret agent?" He then opens the sensory deprivation chamber just enough to pass the tape recorder out to one of his assistants, who assures him, "I'll get right on that, HK."

If each negative in this sentence were a twist in the plot, then you will understand when I say that this is not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not one of the most painful gaming experiences I have ever subjected myself to. You see? After about the third "not," you realize you'll just have to wait until the whole thing is over, count the nots, and then figure out what I was actually saying. Much so with the plot of this abomination.

I beg you, if you haven't already, do not buy this game. If you are absolutely set on destroying yourself, simply consume copious amounts of oven cleaner and wait for sweet death's release. It would be, in every way, an experience preferable to MGS3: Snake Eater, and it would be more interactive.

mgs= great, mgs2= bad, mgs3= bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: October 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the reasons for the low rating have been covered: horrible camera angles, etc. just not a very good game. mgs was great but the last two have been horrible and not a lot of fun.

avoid

Terrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'd never played a MGS game before, started with this one. This game is god awful. I won't bother going into detail; it's already covered in the negative reviews here.

is this a joke?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: March 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it's comming out in november.it's out of any question
to even talk about such game yet to be released.
lets talk after the game is released. ihope it to be released on time i hope.

Can you say boring!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 47
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The only good metal gear was the 1st one. Or the actual gear that was metal, it is real! But really all the games so far have sucked bid time. Playing the games are like watching really stupid movies that don't make sense. You have to be a real loser to like some hippy that wheres a headband and has a lame name like "snake". But there is a cool hero called "Master Chief" that would kick stupid snakes ass. Instead of buying another lame game just get halo or halo 2, doom3, halflife 2 or any game because it will have to be better that more of this metal crap.

Lame reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 22
Date: April 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, you can hide in the bushes and eat snakes all day. Thats enough for some sheep to give it five stars. What if the story sucks, its full of bugs, nothing works, the graphics fails and the sound and music is terrible. What if the stealth was like in Tomb Raider 6! What if they decided to have Raidens voice on the main character!
Then again some other sheep uses their review to tell everyone that they suck in stealth games, and obviously hate them. Great! I'll join the sheep, and use my review to blow off some steam!
(and of course I'm on my toes waiting for this game...)

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