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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
After being burned from Hideo Kojima’s last outing within the Metal Gear Solid franchise on the PlayStation 3 (Metal Gear Solid 4), serious doubts arose when entering the world of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (otherwise known as Metal Gear Solid 5). Would it run the same course of ridiculous storytelling? Or would it turn the corner and instead focus on delivering solid gameplay? Thankfully, the latter was chosen even though it does contain a few flaws along the way. As a portable title, Peace Walker was designed with cooperative play in mind through bite-sized missions that aren’t more than 15 minutes long at times. The cooperative play supports up to four players and, often, the missions – especially the extra missions – are better off being completed with friends. Since it was developed with co-op in mind, the solo play at times suffers since the boss battles were designed with more than one player in mind. Often times, players may have to resort to using rockets to bring down a baddie. To non-Metal Gear Solid fans, the boss fights may cause for spikes in difficulty that could influence players running to the cooperative play to overcome the challenges.
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06/2010
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
The latest portable entry in Kojima's famed tactical espionage series sadly evades perfection by requiring co-op for many of its boss battles. It's worth a look for seasoned stealth fans, but frustration often trumps fun if you go at it alone. Konami's super spy Snake sneaks onto Sony's portable with a cardboard box full of content, the franchise's most coherent narrative to date, sharp visuals, intuitive controls, and some of the most thumb-blistering boss battles your digits will ever experience. It also cashes in on the co-op craze, delivering some cool features, but the multiplayer friendly nature also yields some disappointing moments for lone-wolf types who prefer to go solo. If you count the Metal Gear Solid Digital comic, Peace Walker marks the series' fifth entry on the PSP after the two MGS: AC!D titles and MGS: Portable Ops. Despite this hand-held history, Peace Walker really only borrows from Portable Ops' third-person play design. Its other influences have clearly come from the last two console versions, Guns of the Patriots and Snake Eater. From the former, Peace Walker takes its refined, shooter-focused controls, and from the latter, its lush jungle environments and use of camouflage. For the most part, though, combining elements from some of Snake's best outings results in an impressive entry on the portable.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Review
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a portable addition to the celebrated stealth series, is a rich, fully fledged Metal Gear Solid game with top-notch production values and masses of content, packed onto the PSP. It complements a great-looking stealth-action campaign with a strong co-op offering and bite-sized challenge missions, framed with a neatly presented resource management system in which you establish a private army. The game's many sideshows, ranging from tech development paths to member recruitment and a versus mode, add further value and depth to a commendably well-rounded experience. Peace Walker is set shortly after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, returning to the 1970s to tuck a characteristically twisty plot into the series' timeline. You play as Big Boss--Snake, to his friends--against the backdrop of the Cold War, with the CIA and KGB covertly meddling in Costa Rica. Snake and his mercenary startup, the Militaires Sans Frontieres, are enlisted to bring peace to the troubled country, which has no military of its own. Naturally, this demands that you sneak and shoot your way through various Central American environments, battling tanks and giant mechs at regular intervals.
MGS: Peace Walker Review
Peace Walker is more than a game of two halves; it is a game of two cultures. It is the perfect Japanese PSP game, but the imperfect Western PSP game.We're told it began life as Metal Gear Solid 5, but was later condensed to fit Sony's portable console. Certainly, the plot bears all the hallmarks of a main Metal Gear yarn. Naked Snake, circa a Cold War-fuelled 1974, is the leader of a band of mercenaries called 'Militaires Sans Frontières', or Soldiers Without Borders. He is hired to help a rebel force boot the CIA out of Costa Rica, but ends up having to stop a demented professor from blowing up the world with a nuclear missile-carrying bipedal tank.Missions come in two flavours: Main Ops are story missions, which are either sneaking missions or boss battles, and Extra Ops are repeatable challenges, designed to test your skills. Separate from the third-person sneakery pokery is a resource gathering management sim. After around about the first hour of play, Naked Snake and his cohorts settle down in an oil rig called Mother Base. As leader, it's Snake's responsibility to sort the new recruits that turn up on his doorstep into one of five teams: combat units, R&D, Mess Hall, Medical and Intel.
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
The essence of great design is making compromises without being compromised: Making pragmatic trade-offs without sacrificing creative vision or quality. I'd love to be able to say that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker achieves this lofty goal, but ultimately it falls just short. But then, it wouldn't really be a Metal Gear game if it didn't suffer from one or two glaring flaws, would it? To its credit, though, Peace Walker is the best thing to come from Hideo Kojima's long-running series since Metal Gear Solid 3, despite a handful of compromising shortcomings. That Peace Walker would have to make some compromises is a given; it is a PSP game, after all. No slight intended to the system, but the PSP lacks either the horsepower or range of controls of the PlayStation 3, which played host to the most recent entry in the series. Yet despite taking a technological step backward, Peace Walker does an admirable job of reproducing both the spirit of MGS3 and the control mechanics of MGS4 to the furthest extent possible. Certain Metal Gear standards have been streamlined or removed altogether in order to make the game play as smoothly as it can: Camouflage feels largely irrelevant, and it's no longer possible to crawl.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Review
As of this moment -- as I sit typing on my keyboard -- I'm 35 hours into Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and the game only has more to show me. I beat the story at the 17-hour mark or so, but with more than 100 Extra Ops serving as mini-games/challenges, my own Metal Gear to mold and customize, a platoon of 350 soldiers, dozens of hands-off Outer Ops missions to send troops out on and so much more, I don't know when I'll put this game down. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is probably the biggest game in the Metal Gear series, and it's only on Sony's smallest system. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker picks up the story of Naked Snake (AKA Big Boss) after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. It's 1974, and Snake's a bit disenchanted. After killing his "traitorous" mentor the Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake left the United States and founded Militaires Sans Frontieres, or soldiers without borders, a militia of sorts that takes on causes and missions for those who need their help. Soon, a professor and student show up begging for assistance. It seems that the CIA has invaded Costa Rica, and seeing as how the country doesn't have a military, the duo needs MSF to step in and set things right.
MGS: Peace Walker Hands-on Preview (Preview)
While the perfect score of 40/40 awarded to Peace Walker by Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu may seem rather dubious given the in game advertising for said magazine, there is definitely some indication that it is in fact an incredible game. Because aside from the camera issues coming from the fact there is no easy way to adjust your view, there seems to be so much crammed into the UMD or download that it feels almost like you're playing a full-on home console Metal Gear Solid title.Like Portable Ops before it, Peace Walker sees you in Naked Snake/Big Bosses' boots as he and the rest of the Army without Borders are hired by the awesomely metal handed Ramón Gálvez Mena (seriously, one of his hands is metal, painted red and he has a cigarette lighter in one of his 'fingers') to investigate why a military force with advanced weaponry has established a presence in Costa Rica.It's November 1974 and Mena is a professor, with obligatory shady background and even shadier motives, of peace studies and he's been looking after a little girl called Paz (meaning 'peace') who has been abused by someone and she wants the army out of there to restore peace to Costa Rica and... well you can see this has already got pretty damn confusing in typical Metal Gear Style.
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05/2010
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Preview)
At the recent Konami's Boot Camp event for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a dozen game journalists were led into a simple room in a San Francisco hotel, with only snacks and a PSP each to keep us company. There was some talk about the inclusion of some Monster Hunter enemies showing up in later side missions, and most of us just laughed it off as we turned on the machines. Sure, Monster Hunter would be nothing more than a cameo, right? Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, however, is surprisingly more Monster Hunter-esque than initially expected. Yes, monsters do show up in certain missions, but this game has been influenced by Capcom's poaching simulator down to the very core of its gameplay. Even the control options offer one called Hunter, designed specifically for players of Monster Hunter to ease in. And that brings us to the core issue with Peace Walker: it is a MGS version of Monster Hunter. Over a period of two days, we were shown that Peace Walker has clearly been designed with multiplayer in mind, and not just in Versus modes. Early impressions have not shown how important playing with friends really is.
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (Preview)
It seems to be par for the course for Konami: Give a group of folks from the media a couple of days to play through the new Metal Gear game before anyone else. It happened with MGS3, MGS4, and this year, it happened with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Myself and several others played through almost all of Peace Walker ("almost," you ask? Well, read on) over a couple of weeks ago. It was a nice opportunity, no doubt, but by the time this article goes up, Peace Walker will have already been released in Japan, and there's no doubt fans of the MGS series will already have a grasp of the new game's story and gameplay as info pours out from import players. I can't promise to give you brand new insight on the game, but given what information out there, I can certainly supplement it. Setting the stage for Peace Walker is Costa Rica in 1974, where Snake (Big Boss) and his small band of mercenaries, Militaires Sans Frontieres (MSF), are asked to help the nation (or what appears to be) stand up against a military force that's taken root and is developing devastating new weapons. What those weapons turn out to be are moving nuclear-capable vehicles; the next generation(s) of the Metal Gear, but these ones are entirely autonomous -- controlled by A.I. pods.
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (Preview)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is out in Japan. After a day playing and exploring Snake's new abilities, I'm starting to see that it isn't a side chapter like 2006's Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops -- it's essentially Metal Gear Solid 5. The game's opening sequence has been available as a demo since TGS 2009. However, to avoid spoilers, Kojima Productions removed several key lines from the cinematics for that version. With the missing lines restored for this final release, Peace Walker's story begins rolling from the very beginning. Like the demo, the full game is amazing to look at -- it's really hard to believe that the game is running on the PSP. While previous Metal Gear games on the system have been graphically impressive in their own right, the visuals in Peace Walker rival Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3. Also returning from the demo are interactive cutscenes. Despite the fact that they're the same Ashley Wood drawn motion comics seen in Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel and Portable Ops, it's possible to change the camera's focus slightly, and in some cases, you can zoom-in to see beneath the clothes of the female characters.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Preview)
Certainly one of the most anticipated titles for the PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is more than just a standard porting of the franchise's stealth action gameplay to a handheld format. Peace Walker is a proper entry to the Metal Gear Solid series, fitting in with the series' cannon and putting players back in the shoes of Big Boss. The game will rival the console entries in terms of both gameplay elements and scope, and should be one to check out if you're a PSP owner. The game was on-hand at a recent Konami press event and we were able to spend a few brief moments revisiting Snake. Technically billed as Metal Gear Solid 5, Peace Walker will take place after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, putting you back in control of Naked Snake (aka Big Boss) during the Cold War. This game is set to provide some lead-up information to the formation of Outer Heaven, which fans will know as the catalyst for what took place in the original Metal Gear games. The game's controls took some getting used to, due to a manual aiming. Combat is similar toMetal Gear Solid 3, as the game utilizes the same type of CQC system as its predecessor. The face buttons also help by controlling the camera, freeing up the D-Pad for aiming and dedicating the analog nub to movement.
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04/2010
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Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker (Preview)
he next portable, product placement-heavy game in the Metal Gear Solid series represents a "test" for Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. Speaking through his Japanese-language Twitter account, the famed game designer said designing Peace Walker for the PlayStation Portable is a way for the series to grow horizontally (instead of vertically), which will hopefully expand gameplay. With that in mind, and with only two demo levels of Peace Walker to play at Konami Gamers Night, I tried to see where Peace Walker differed from its parent franchise and if it covered any new ground from the last PSP game in the series, Portable Ops. The two levels are the tutorials available in a December 2009 PlayStation Network demo. If you've played through those, you know what I'm talking about when I say that while the controls are far more streamlined than Portable Ops, they're still desperately fiddly. To control the camera, you tap the face buttons (Triangle for up, X for down, etc.). To move or change the type of close-quarters-combat attack you perform, you tilt the analog nub. The directional pad controls standing and crouch, as well as lying-down, but in Peace Walker you can't crawl.
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Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker : (8.3/10)
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