Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

I've played everyone game in the Metal Gear series , and I've loved everyone of them. When i first got my PS3 system, i bought this game right away. I played the game for about an hour and i couldn't stop! it has changed so much, i swear the enemies have minds of there own. The game is very hard, and has an amazing story line. Sometimes i wish it could be a movie. The graphics are perfect, best graphics I've seen on PS3. One of the greatest thing about the game is that u can sneak up behind enemies and threaten them with a gun and they will put there hands up and you can make them drop there weapon, then check them for anything else they have on them and take it, then put a bullet through there chests ending there lives. One exciting feature is u can take sides with the Melita. The game is just very fun. I've played it 5 times, and have beaten it 5 times, that's how fun it is. I've played many games for PS3 and i am a level 11 on trophies, and this game is still my favorite, second favorite is the Assassins Creed series, which i also highly recommend you all play, but The Metal Gear series is the best.

It definitely saddens me on the critical reviews this game gets from some of it's first-time players. Unlike many of the franchises out there, this game has it's niche and that niche is 'not' gameplay. Devil May Cry focuses on button-mashing action, Resident Evil touts resourcefulness, Silent Hill preys on the lesser intelligent and Call of Duty tries your patience and your ISP.
Metal Gear Solid has 'always' been about the story. In a sense, an interactive movie. It is also heavy with political strife and mental warfare. The game is meant to be played without ever being spotted by the enemy and sometimes that can take hours of sitting and waiting, watching enemy patrol movements and deciding on the best time to slip by unnoticed.
When you pull out your favorite machine gun and mow your way from one cut scene to the next, then, yes; it may come off as relatively short and unappealing. That's just a poor way to play this game.
Metal Gear has the run mature gamers through the gambit of emotion, question governmental control and the power of the tradecraft in espionage.
Just because this game doesn't appeal to your appetite for mind-numbing redundant death and grenade-flailing tactless destruction does not mean the game is bad and those that rate it low for these reasons should not be making ratings in the first place.

It's called Un-Biased Opinion.

Konami has unerringly stuck to the roots they started out with and rolled a storyline out from what was once nothing; bringing to a conclusion a long chain of events that began in the early 80's. It takes some dedication to turn a whole lot of old into a whole lot of new without really changing anything at all.

If this was your first Metal Gear experience...and you rated it a 1: Stop. Leaving. Ratings.