Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker User Reviews (PS3)

Hell Fire's Review
Jul 29, 2011

Written by Hell Fire

THE GOOD:
Good mix between stealth and action
Personalising your Mother Base
SO.MUCH.TO.DO

THE BAD:
Controls could use some work

SUMMARY:
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (or in Snakes case, a cardboard box) for the past 13 years, you will be well aware of how big and utterly awesome the Metal Gear Solid series is. The genius behind this epic series is Hideo Kojima who has been the director for all the main Metal Gear Solid games. While still involved in the PSP titles (Acid 1 & 2, Portable Ops), he has not been in the director’s chair, and while these are still decent enough games, they lacked the magic of the main series. This all changed when MGS: Peace Walker, Hideo’s latest work, was released. While the game takes a different approach to the main games in the series, it is definitely in the same ballpark when it comes to quality, and smashes the rest of the series in terms of content.

Peace Walker takes place 10 years after Snake Eater and is set in Costa Rica. Here, Snake and ...

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Twin_Master's Review
Jul 6, 2010

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Written by Twin_Master

Kojima really raised the bar with his latest gift to the Playstation Portable, hoping to rise above the disappointing Portable Ops, which had built up a lot of hope for the series on the Playstation Portable but really failed to deliver. Its arrival did provide the portable gaming community with its own slice of Metal Gear heaven, however, it seemed very short lived and quite frankly unsatisfying. The expectations of Portable Ops were sadly not met, and some could say this was due to the fact that Kojima had minimal involvement with the project's development, merely acting as a producer. Suffice to say, Peace Walker has come to redeem its predecessor, with Kojima taking the reins in a more hands on approach as Director, Producer and Writer, to bring a true Metal Gear Solid game to the PSP and share with us a truer Metal Gear Solid experience than we could have possibly hoped to have imagined before.

Overview
Peace Walker is set 10 years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3, in the...

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