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Fun For Newbies; Dissapointment Galore For Veterans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

On the paper, the idea seems awesome: a remake of one of the best games ever on the PlayStation, with enchanced graphics and gameplay! Basically, it's the original Metal Gear Solid with the graphical and gameplay improvements of MGS: Sons of Liberty!

Seems like the best idea ever, right?
Well...

I can understand why the hype for this game was so great. Only recently was a PlayStation-to-Gamecube transition more than succesful, with Capcom's remake of Resident Evil.
The Twin Snakes isn't neccessarilly a bad game, but I doubt that it will be able to hold up against the landmark-of-a-game original that it's based on.

There's nothing wrong with the gameplay itself. It's pretty much what Sons of Liberty gave us (great stuff), and the graphics are wonderful (except for slowdowns when there's too much action on the screen). There's no need to complain here.

What threatens to kill is the transition of the story itself. It hasn't been signifigantly altered in plot, but seasoned veterans of the original will notice some displeasurable changes. Many a times will this vet be sitting there, trying hard to enjoy it, but still wondering "Why did they cut that scene out?", or "Why did they change that part?".
Basically, it's a tainted re-telling of a previously-flawless storyline.

Believability has been altered as well. Snake is now Neo; dodging bullets, flying through the air, and kicking away rockets. This is acceptable with a character such as the Ninja, but otherwise it tears up a credit that the first game had in believability like a chainsaw.

The voice-acting has been redone too, for the worse. Characters like Mei Ling have lost their accents, stripping them of their originality. Most dissapointingly (for me), the Ninja has been given a new voice actor as well, who destroys him (Ninja) and his character. In the original game, the end battle with Rex portrayed such emotion on Ninja's behalf that I actually got the chills...but now, the mysterious warrior reads from a script, and Snake snarls and growls in the last syllables of every sentence.
Why...?

But, plainly said, this doesn't damage the game itself, only the reputation. Had this game been originally made, fans might've appreciated it more...but with a great legacy behind it, most minions of the original will shake their heads and shed a tear.

I suggest that newbies that are even only merely interested buy it quickly, because it really is that good (enough). For fans, I reccomend that you rent it, or borrow it from your buddy before buying, or decide that it may be better to play through the original one more time.

Finally Nintendo gets some Kojima lovin' again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Metal Gear series are hands down one of the best-if not the best-game franchise to date. Hideo Kojima always manages to inwrap his fans into the Metal Gear storyline. His team at Konami has remained true and respectful to all of the different Metal Gear games released on different consoles, and still tie them in together some way. They invented the action/stealth genre way back on the NES console revolutionizing gameplay from run and gun to a more story driven game. When "Metal Gear Solid" came out on the Playstation they did it again. Kojima once again revolutionized gaming with MGS' cinematic feel. Now, the gamer was not only playing a game, being told a gripping story, or watching an anime film; but all of it at once. Now, almost all games today have to have that level of depth in story, and those great camera angle sequences, and the fluidity to mesh the two with fluid gameplay. Thanks to them games are more story driven.

Now, with all that being stated on to Nintendo Gamecubes' remake of the '96 Playstation hit. I was a bit skeptical that the Gamecube would improve on a game that was already practicly perfect, but I was also considerably curious too. And what was the outcome? HOLY CR@P!!! The graphics are right out of an anime. Collaborating with Ryuhei Kitamura, a renown Japanese film director, was genius. Kitamura gave "Twin Snakes" a purely cinematic feel. (The Ninja sequences are worth purchasing the game alone) The gameplay was a little different from the PSONE, but not at all difficult to grasp. The addition of a First-Person view added much more to the experience of the game than original. The sound and voice acting were once again Hollywood worthy. Hideo doesn't pull any punches and Silicon Knights demonstrated that they can play with the big boys too.

The blend of western programers and eastern directors is a fusion portrayed in the game itself with the lone, foreboding western soldier taking on an entire army filled with matinee Kung-Fu fight scenes having to rediscover himself and fight for what he believes in. MGS is the western, the mythos film that we all love to believe in. And this game is another volume to the series and one that you can easily participate in.

This review may as well be a love confession to Hideo Kojima

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow.... that's all I really need to say. It's a pretty amazing game.

Story:10/10
Starts off strong and just gets stronger. Another good thing is how it can deliver a message without being preachy. Who says games can't teach ya anything ^_^.

Gameplay:10/10
Definitely the high point of the game. As opposed to regular games where it's just run, gun, repeat, you have to sneak around and infiltrate silently while attacking as little as possible. It worked in 1998, and now with the addition of MGS2 extra controls it's just better.

Controls: 9/10
Overall good, but I can't get over the blasted Gamecube controller. I also can't get used to not having four shoulder buttons but.... so be it.

Graphics:9/10
Beautiful but a bit chippy and choppy. Characters are very well modeled and rendered, and actually look like realistic people. Even the minor characters and even the guards are well made and move realistically. Cut scenes are well-rendered and look like a post-Matrix action movie.

Sound:10/10
Perfect, especially in a game where sound is important. Voices are some of the best to ever come from a video game and even suprass animated features and movies. Of particular note is David Hayter, the screenwriter of X-men and X-2, who nails the gritty, anti-Bond spy sound perfectly.

Overall: 9.5/10

A truly inspirational remake of an already excellent classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before I begin, let me just say that if you've played or own the original version of Metal Gear Solid, you most likely won't want to buy this. I would, however, highly recommend that you at least rent it and try it out, even if you've played MGS already. Twin Snakes, as you probably already know, is simply a remake of the original MGS. It bascially incorporates all of the features from MGS2:Sons of Liberty into MGS1.

Now onto the actual content of the game. If you're going to play a version of Metal Gear Solid for the first time, then this is undoubtedly the one. It includes many extra features that were not in the original version for PS1. For example, there are added weapons and items that were taken from MGS2, you can now hide guards' bodies after disposing of them, and all of the game's cutscenes have been completely redone for Twin Snakes.

The graphics for this game are top notch, even slightly surpassing that of MGS3:Snake Eater, in my opinion. The game's voice acting, however, is not as good as it was in the original MGS, though. Then again, the original MGS was great, so it only follows that The Twin Snakes would be at least as good. Overall, I would recommend at least trying this game out even if you've played the original version, because Twin Snakes stands as a great revival of a true classic.

MGS: The Twin Snakes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

MGS: Twin Snakes is a Gamecube remake of the original Metal Gear Solid. The big attraction to this version is updated graphics and MGS2-style gameplay (e.g. shooting in first-person view, dogtags, hanging off ledges, etc). In addition, all the in-game cutscenes have been redone by Ryuhei Kitamura (of Versus fame). The game has been pretty well hyped-up due to the collaboration between Hideo Kojima (MGS creator), Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo game legend) and Silicon Knights (Nintendo ex-2nd party developer).

The graphical overhaul of the game was fairly successful-- characters have detailed facial features now instead of horribly pixelated texture maps. The redone cutscenes are also interesting. They don't necessarily add anything more to the game, but make it interesting to play through again.

The gameplay in Twin Snakes is almost exactly the same as the original MGS, except for the additions of a few MGS2 ideas. Attack teams will now come after you if a certain guard doesn't report back to HQ, etc., etc. Ironically enough, even though the MGS2 gameplay was something I was really looking forward to, it really doesn't add to the gameplay, and instead detracts from it.

It turns out that my main complaint with the game comes from the MGS2-style gameplay. MGS was designed to be played with certain rules in place (e.g. no shooting in first-person view), and the MGS2 "ruleset" takes away from the original game. For instance, security cameras are a joke in Twin Snakes--you can simply shoot them, and they will never work again. In the original MGS, the cameras were a real annoyance, since you either had to use a chaff grenade or else carefully sneak around their cone of vision. Another example is the "bleeding" concept in MGS2, where if Snake gets too low on health, his life bar will ebb away. He can either use a bandage to stop the bleeding or crouch in one place to slowly regain life. Against many of the bosses in Twin Snakes (especially Mantis and Liquid) I was able to simply crouch between attacks to regain any life I lost. In reality, does the MGS2-style gameplay ADD anything to the game? The answer is, of course, no. I find that the "updated" gameplay actually detracts from the game, and I think it would have held up fine with just a graphical overhaul; that's really the only way MGS could be improved. Twin Snakes makes a decent rental, but it won't replace your PSX copy of MGS.

Hahah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Haha this game is for the gamecube only, so take that PS2 GC ROCKS! Although the new MGS3 is comming soon but not that soon. This game will rule.

...bad remake

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game over all is not that bad but there where some problems.
The new cinamatics in the game take the realism out of the game,mainly where the sceen where grey fox cuts a block of the wall out and kicks it at snake.In stead of adding to the game it just makes it feel sappy.Also the the controls are verry glitchy and awkward wich seems to be the only chalange to the game.If you have played the first one you will be dissapointed in the cinamatics if you have played Metal Gear Solid 2 you will be dissapointed in gameplay and controls. Just stick with the original.

if u like metal gear then you'll love this one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The TWIN SNAKES is pretty much mgs1 but way awsomer its got better graphics thanks to gamecube and they made the story line mini movies a hell of alot better you should defanently by twin snake its awsome.

bad REmake...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: October 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The REmake of the Original Metal Gear Solid on the PS1 wasn't supposed to be bad if it weren't for the bad Voice acting and redone music.

the feel of thrill was gone when you first hear the music when Snake rides the Elevator to the Surface. Boos Fight music has gone...boring and excitement was gone. the PS1 version my have "Limited" capabilities, but the REAl action is in THERE!

The Best Game Ever Gets Even Better!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Personaly, I think that the origional MGS for the PS1 is the second best game ever, and now that it is being remade with better graphics, a first person mode, and revamped cut-scenes, it lookes to be even better than before! This is a must buy!

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