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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

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I've recently played through the demo of MGS 3 Snake Eater that came with PSM, and I couldn't be happier. This game is awesome and if I loved the 20-minute demo, God knows how much I'll love the actual game. The graphics for Snake Eater are amazing and probably the best in any PS2 game. The jungle environment is expertly rendered and is just plain jaw-dropping. This is a jungle, my friend, no crappy substitute. This is pure 100% jungle; there's no point of my explaining this further. In order to understand, you have to play the game. Snake Eater adds a whole new twist to sneaking around. No longer will you simply push up against an object or duck in to crevasses. That simply will not do in the jungle; therefore, you have camouflage outfits As far as I know, there are eight different suits of camo -- all of which will allow you to blend in. In a certain environment, for example, leaf camo will allow you to remain hidden when you are in tall grass or around bushes. Tree bark camo is effective when you are near trees or pushed up against one. Now, it would kind of be annoying if you had to change your camo every second since the jungle is not one color, but don't worry -- there are some camo suits which are more general and will hide you in most environments. Now, in order to tell how camouflaged you are, there is a handy little percent in the top right of the screen. Obviously a high percent means you are virtually invisible, and a lower percent means you stick out like a sore thumb. For example, if your camo percent is at 80% or above, you probably won't be seen unless the enemy steps on you or walks into you; but if your camo percent is at 40% or below, the enemy will easily be able to spot you at a far. Therefore, learn your camos and know which camo goes with what environment. This might still sound a little confusing, but once you play the game it will all fall into place.
Now I'm going to give you the run down of one of the coolest new aspects of the game hunting. At the top left of the screen there is a large stamina bar. The bar will drop as you run around, fight, get shot and simply exert energy. If the bar gets too low, you will become weak and your aim will be shaky and you'll move slower. Fear not -- a little bit of food will bring the bar back up. There are a lot of things to eat in the jungle, like fruit, fish, mushrooms, frogs, birds, crocodiles, and of course snakes. All these animals and more can be hunted but you have to know where to find them. For example, snakes and frogs hang out in tall grass, and birds and fruit tend to be up in trees. Once you find an animal, you can kill it and it will be added to your inventory. When your stamina gets low, simply eat the meat and your bar will go back up; obviously bigger animals will give you more stamina than smaller ones. Now for those of you who are worried that you'll have to watch the stamina bar every second, don't fear, because it's not so. Snake is a strong secret agent and can usually go 20 minutes before he needs to eat something, unless of course he's hurt badly, or fighting every second.
The enemy soldiers in this game are extremely smart and will really put your skills to the test; here are some of the smart things they'll do in the game. When an enemy soldier spots you, he'll start yelling to attract other guards in the area and will then pin you down with fire while the other guards call for back up. Your enemies can work very effectively; while some of them lay down cover fire, the rest will slowly converge on your position. If you get to an area, the enemies can't reach they'll start lobbing grenades at you, and try to call in reinforcements to attack you from a different side. If you open fire on the enemy, they'll yell, take cover and actually take it, rolling out of the way, or going prone. If you engage the enemy up close, they'll pull out their knives or bayonets and attack you aggressively. These are only some of the traits the enemies have; therefore, you better watch out and try to avoid engagements, because the enemies mean business.
Snake Eater has a much more extensive list of CQC (close quarters combat) moves so don't be shy to get up close your enemies sure wont. If you hold circle when you're next to an enemy, you'll be able to grab him. When you're holding him, you can do the following -- interrogate him for useful info, throw him to the ground knocking him out instantly, pull out your pistol and shoot using him as a shield, or simply end his life by slitting his throat. Now you don't have to grab an enemy to do an unarmed attack with a CQC capable weapon equipped (bare hands, knife, pistol and knife); you can throw a barrage of punches, rifle butts and knife slashes at the enemy, taking him out quickly. Snake Eater has a large selection of weapons, which include pistols, assault rifles, sniper rifles, a shotgun, grenades, and although I can't be sure, an SMG. The game, of course, wouldn't be Metal Gear Solid without the amazing cut scenes, and twisting story line. Snake eater satisfies all that, and from what I've heard, there is going to be a major plot twist in the middle of the game. Snake Eater is an amazing game, so don't question my logic or review, simply buy it. I guarantee you'll like it.

I'm not going to get into the story of the game because what you find out in the demo is perfectly accessible through the games trailers and the previews already on the site. If you'd like to play the demo go out and buy yourself a copy of Novembers official playstation magazine and have a ball.

It's a very short demo in which your mission objectives include retrieving your backpack and infiltrating a run down building containing that neat scientist we've all been BSing about. The demo ends upon finding him and we aren't even granted a cutscene to show what happens after we walk through the door.

As short as the demo is, it gives us plenty of insight on how the game will progress from that point on. The camo system is pretty interesting, but I can see it being a major pain at times. Snakes jungle surroundings limit hiding places that would be effective without camo, so you really really need to use it. Camo is broken down into two parts, your uniform and your face. The game only gives us one face camo that proves pretty helpful when combines with the 'leaf' uniform. Since throughout the demo you'll be crawling through the grass like the snake you are, you'll only really need to use the leaf uniform. You COULD use the red and black brick uniform to press yourself against the red brick wall you encounter in the final area, but unfortunately with a wood colored face paint there's little point to it. This will make things much more challenging since there is no radar...at least not a traditional one. You'll find in the backpack you retrieve from the first area that snake now carries a sonar and a motion detector that is battery operated. The motion detector scans ANY moving objects, and the Sonar, which can be activated by pressing L3 will detect ANY life forms...these include animals too so be careful. The AP sensor works just like in MGS2 detecting the heartbeat of human lifeforms nearby, on the radio one of the characters will explain to you that it has been modified to only detect humans, so at least there's one shot at not mistaking a tree frog for a guard or vice versa. Another thing that may dissapoint the light players is that you don't have a lazer sight on your guns...you have to ACTUALLY aim!! OH NO!

You can kill animals and they will just dissolve and turn into rations, you then take them and shift through the start menue and select FOOD. Eating the food does NOT restore your life, again be careful. Instead it increases the bar beneath your life gauge called the Stamina Bar. Your life will restore automatically and how much stamina you have effects the speed in which your life is restored. Stamina decreases when you do things like stalk, roll, and basically anything that requires an effort, but don't worry...in the demo at least the stamina bar decreases slowly, and there is a TON of food around. I suspect that in the game you will want to take care of that food and use the tranq gun to preserve the sweeter meats for any inside levels that may not be as generous with the snakes, birds and plantlife that provides snake nourishment. As even one of the characters on the radio will tell you, no training wheels on this mission...the camera angle is no longer fixed, which will make the game in some cases much more reliant on the skill of the player.

Finally, the best thing this demo has shown us in my opinion...CQC! CQC stands for close quarters combat. The jungle environment really does make things less visible, not just you, but your enemies are pretty well cloaked in every area you'll find them. If you've seen an image you'll note the guards wear jungle green costumes that WILL escape your feild of veiw on occasion. You will probably find yourself running into a guard without even knowing he's there, and old metal gear solid hand to hand is pretty weak in a situation like this. CQC rests in the treasured circle button, when in grabbing distance of an enemy snake can...well...grab the enemy and hold a knife to his throat. From there the L3 button will allow you to interrogate him (the demo only gives you crappy game tips for intelligence so I recommend immediately doing what I'm about to say next after getting that crappy intel) you can hold the circle button harder to slit his throat, or you can use him as a sheild against any guards that may have been alerted and with a gun equiped you can even peck them off as they stand hesitant to shoot infront of you (the two handguns will also have a knife as snake doesn't use one hand firearms without his knife so throat slitting is still a very fun option for you would-be psychos out there) Also, if you just want to be a tough guy, pressing the left analog stick and circle infront of an enemy will slam him to the ground with tremendous force and knock him out with one shot...this tends to make alert modes a bit easier to survive, but if you're a true fan you won't get caught. The new health system, on the other hand, makes it harder to survive a gun fight, your health recovers slowly and you can't just eat a ration to boost it back up anymore, it is in your best interest to just retreat and find a place to hide and heal.

Final note: The demo rocks and everything, but it times out when left idle for about a minute, if you want to get the demo go ahead. A way to avoid the time out is to just die, the Snake is Dead screen will never time out, so just leave it there and go to the bathroom or whatever. When you come back, you'll notice that "Snake is dead" morphs into "TIME PARADOX"...No, you aren't Solid Snake...Yes, you're big boss.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, is definitely one of the greatest action/stealth games to ever come out, and a great installation to the MGS series. In Snake Eater, the era is The Cold War, 1964 (9 years before the birth of Solid), you play as Jack (I can't remember if he has a last name), a trained American operative that is sent to go behind Russian lines to rescue a researcher by the name of Sokolov. However, like every MGS game, your mission soon ends up flopping and the story expands to where you need to defeat a team of freaks and save the world from another walking battle tank, referred to as "Metal Gear."

Video: The graphics in this game are superb, the jungle environments look very nice and works splendidly with the camouflage system. In this game, the enemies pay less regard to dark or light (like they do in splinter cell) and pay more regard to how well your different suits blend in with the background. The characters are very nicely done and are good to look at. The foliage is nicely done as well, and aids to camouflage Jack (Snake, if you want to call him that) even more.

Audio: As always in MGS games, the audio is also extremely well done. The voice-acting is perfect and the sounds of gunshots sound realistic. The great ambient sounds range from the waving trees of the jungle to the echoing space of a cold, stone-walled building. However, as in most Japanese gamers, the lip-syncing is not perfect, but that's to be expected, since the lip-syncing is meant for the Japanese language. The music in this game is also very well done, especially the opening theme, which is named, well, "Snake Eater."

Gameplay: Here's where it counts, the gameplay. The gameplay is smooth and fluid. A great addition to the gameplay is the Survival Knife and CQC (close-quarters-combat), CQC allows Snake to perform many more cool-looking moves than in previous Metal Gear Solid games. The game is also a lot more realistic than the previous MGS games, for instance, you can't simply eat a ration to restore health, instead, you must sit and wait for your health to replenish. You also now have a "Stamina" bar, which is basically how full your stomach is. This introduces another new element to the MGS series: hunting. Snake must now hunt for food in order to keep his stamina bar up, if his stamina is up, he can recover health more quickly, if the stamina bar runs out, your health will begin depleting. Gunplay is as good as ever and controls just as well. The boss fights in this game are fantastic, as each enemy is different.
**Hint**:In the cutscene right after The Boss explains to Col. Volgin that The End is always sleeping, or, "Normally, he's dead." After this cutscene, you get a chance to skip the boss fight with The End. If you are quick enough, pull out any lethal gun and try and pop The End while he's being wheeled away on his chair, if you are successful, you will fight the Ocelots instead of The End.**End Hint**

Story: The game's story is easier to understand than MGS2's and helps uncover exactly what "The Patriots" are, as well as tell of the Big Boss's past. I would rather not give away any highlights of the story so I'll end it there.

Snake Eater is truly one of the greatest Action/Stealth games to come out in our lifetime. I definitely reccomend this game to any PS2 owner's library.

--- 9.3/10

I have just beat the game, and let me say I never got so much fulfillment in any other MGS games than this one. The game basically is a prequal (in case you didnt know already) to the popular MGS series. I wont give too much of the game away, but some of the Boss battles are the best I have ever played against (preferably the End and the Boss). The story line is much easier to understand too, compared to MGS2 and MGS. And to all of you worried about "Raiden" being in the game, I will say this to you. Dont worry, he is not a main character. As a matter of fact, you barely see him (lol).

I was also happy to see Ocelot as a young man. In the game he is fairly new to combat, and admires Snake to a certain extent. As a matter of fact, some of the cutscenes with Ocelot are pretty hilarious, but you find out how he becomes known as Revolver Ocelot.

If you have played and loved the MGS Franchise, MGS 3 will be a very worthwhile game to play. Plus if you enjoyed the series as much as I, you will not dispute that this is the best game of the series to date.

I love this game it is MUCH better,than Metal Gear Solid 2 AND Metal Gear Solid 1.In this PREqual you do not play as Solid Snake or that arrogant Jack Sears(In other words RAIDEN),no you play Naked Snake who is sent into a Russian jungle to resque Scientist Sokolov to stop him buildind the "Treading BeHemot"SHAGOHOD(or as i like to say Metal Gear:SHAGOHOD).

THE VIRTOUIS MISSION:
This is Part 1 the easy mission,its the original plan before the plot twists.
OPERATION:SNAKE EATER:
Part 2,The MAIN game you have been given another objective:Eliminate The BOSS and her COBRA team(yes all the guys with "The" on their names) as well as her allies.

THE CHARACTER:Jack ???,who is codenamed "Naked Snake" or for convenience "Snake".He is very sharp and resistant and endurable.
In Metal Gear Solid 1,Solid Snake`s interest was Myril Silverburgh.In Metal Gear Solid 2 RAIDEN`s love interst was Rosemary.In Metal Gear Solid 3 Naked Snake`s love interest is Eva,in my opinion the best of the others.

I love this game inside-out and my two favorate characters are Snake and Eva.

The ending is very...satisfying,i guess Eva and Snake celebrate at his house with Love stuff(Only as far as hugging,and kissing no sexual/nudity bits).But what i don`t like is Eva turning out to be a spy for the PHILOSEPHERS(in 1970 renamed The PATRIOTS),But she does not leave without conscent and leaves him a tape explaining the truth,but in her orders she was supposed to kill him,but she remembers what he did for her,as well as her promice to The BOSS.She throes her briefcase thing into the fire.But Naked Snake understands and does not curse her,which i liked.iT DEFINATELY FOLLOWS other MGS games in terms of plot twists,like always near the end of the game you get captured and tortured by a villain,and the bosses are very much the same way too,The FOXHOUND freaks,The DEADCELL`s and the COBRAS.Also if you watch the credits at the end Ocelot has a phone call about,sucha sucha thing but reveals that he is ADAM and that he triple crossed the GRU for the PATRIOTS,which i noticed in MGS2 remember when Ocelot backstabs Col. Gurlukovich and says "I abandoned "Her"(Russia) during the Cold War".

Speaking of Ocelot,He is the same guy from MGS1/MGS2 the one that spins his Revolvers` around,This time is is voiced by Josh Keaton,rather than Pat Zimmerman as he is like 19 in this game and needs a younger voice,Ocelot is much cooler,and good lookin`
He hates Eva,and is always making this Ocelot-cat sound to call his comrades,he is a fool as well,i love the bit where Eva and The BOSS slap him.And when he takes Eva hostage and realises he has no ammo left and Eva starts kick his butt,and then does a whellie which where the front wheel drives up his head and he has tread marks all over his forhead.

Me and my two friends Daniel and Lewis like this game,Daniel likes Eva she is his favorate character as he likes.... that sorta thing.Bye and i am lookin` 4ward to MGS3:Subsistence,which i am getting for the sake of it,and MGS4:GOTP which should i hope is good.




Hey Hideo Kojima after MGS4 could we have another MGS game which we play Naked Snake again(he is unveiled to be Big Boss,but hek it won`t difuse the original storyline) i love Naked Snake,aND ALSO A RETURN Of Eva she is great,and this time she should not be a SPY and they team up again to eliminate a Metal Gear,the game should not be exactly like MGS3 but similar in terms of food hunting etc. but not to repeat that motorcycle bit,where you defeat `HOD on a Motobike,I really want Snake and Eva back they are the best.

Got the demo the other day, and i can not stop playing it. BRILLIANT!!!! There is so much to do its a shame the demo cuts you off after awhile. Lets start out with the graphics. They are far and above what MGS2:SOL is, and thats saying a whole mouth-full. Kojima captured the jungle so well its amazing, and with surround sound it really throws you off some times. Also the new camoflauge index is a great help (for all you wanna be snipers out there, the SVD Sniper rifle and the 95% camo rating make for some GREAT times.) to sneak around. The camo in your backpack is a variety and helpful.
There are a host of weapons to choose from so far. The great thing of all of this is the realism, bottom line. Your cloths stay bloody if you get shot, your sonar gives beeps that the enemy can hear, your supressor wears off making your shots from the tranq gun louder over time, and if your crawling and a bird flys up from where you are at they come and look. Being in the jungle gives you a wide selection of how to dispatch your enemy, also gone is the one two kick combo of MGS2, and in is the great CQB system(Close Quarters Battle) Now snake plays like a real tough guy, insted of a pansy who just got put on the job. The knife is great addition to your arsenal.
Get excited people its less then a month away and its going to be amazing. With so many games releasing so close together its going to be hard to decide where to spend. This is one that is a must have.
Enjoy!!!

This is definatly an improvement over Metal Gear Solid 2,its much better than even the original PS1 game.I enjoyed them all but i liked this one best,though i completed less times than i did MGS2.This is the game in the series that takes a break from the previous games-This is a prequal and falls down the "Metal Gear" timeline to 1964,during the Cold War between USA and the Soviet Union.It still has the Metal Gear Solid style of replay value(If You like it,that is) after you complete it once you will play it over and over again-whether its to unlock the goodies(This time round the goodies a special Camoflage Uniforms and Facepaints) or to understand the story better,To check out more stuff on the Radio like funny or interesting radio conversations(in MGS3 you have the best command team-i will explain them later in my review) or for just Sheer Fun.
As i said already the game takes place during the Cold War,1964 and the beginning anouncement is:

"After The end of World War II,The world was split into two,
East and West,This marked the beginning of an era called the Cold War"

And a USAF Gunship is flying through Pakistan,with an altitude of 30,000,00 feet in the air and it is 5:30 AM in the morning-It is also thundering.An elite soldier is sitting in the gunship smoking a cigar with most of his face hidden in the shade-the Gunship is now in Soviet AirSpace and a fellow soldiers tells him to put on his oxygen mask and throw his cigar away,but the elite soldier ignores him.His commander Major Zero then tells the pilots to open the rear hatch of the gunship and says to himself "One for the history books,the worlds first HALO jump"-then commands the soldier to put on his mask and throw away the cigar-this time he responds and does so.the soldier than stands up slowly walking to the open space,until he is to the ledge and then Major Zero commands him to to jump:"Spread your Wings and fly,God be with you" as Zero wishes him good luck as he jumps down performing his HALO jump successfully,but with a tacky landing.The elite soldier then rips his oxygen mask off-The elite soldier is indeed "Snake"-no not Solid Snake some one related to him..Then the game starts.
That is quite a thrilling opener even if it were on a film i would be impressed.
The game is different-You are not infiltrating a military base,nor an oil tanker and nor a clean-up facility this time round-You are now sneaking around in the jungle,the jungle is the best environment Konami have used yet in MGS!
The jungle maybe big-so now you have a new hiding abilty-camoflage in surrounding colors-and decieve the enemy guards eyes.
You can find camoflage and facepaints around or use the default ones-these are the camo`s you use for hiding however you also can unlock camo`s by beating Bosses with tranquilizer rounds and other non-lethal ways,including "Starving" which means drowning the enemies STAMINA,in one boss "Poisoning" as he/she needs to keep collecting food-you have poisonous animals and plants in the game which will reduce anyone`s LIFE gauge until IF it is cured.Another way to get camo`s is downloading them of the official site(www.konami/metalgearsolid3.com,i think)-which is the Metal Gear Solid games debuting ONLINE-however you cannot play online but in its make-over "Subsistence" you will be able to play against other players online.There is one more way of getting cmaoflage is the "Special camoflage Disk"-but that CD is quite rare-My friend Daniel wanted it before MGS3 went "Off Topic".
OK let me intoduce you to the command team as promised:

MAJOR ZERO:A British ex-SAS soldier and MI-5 agent is now the commander for Force Operation X(fox) He is a huge 007 James Bond fan.The guy is quite daft sometimes-he is better than col. Campbell or anyother commander in the past games.

PARA-MEDIC:Oh how could i forget her!-She is a movie fanatic(a HUGE one) and had the nickname "Quack!" when she was a doctor as she never shut up about movies to her patients.Her and Zero are both 007 fans though she ain`t a huge one.

THE BOSS:She is a veteran soldier and ex-commander of the elite COBRA unit-she is a motherlike figure to Snake and his mentor.she is(SPOILER) the mother of Ocelot(END).
There is so much more about her but i don`t want to spoil the game for anyone.(Note she is replaced by SIGINT in the second part of the game-because....)

SIGINT:Replaced The Boss in the second mission as a weapons and stealth advisor.He is an African-American who joined with FOX as he was racialy non-accepted in other organisations-but Zero was different as he thinks that everyone should be treated equally Male or Female,Black or white.This guy is VERY funny sometimes though the first time i played through i never actually spoke to him apart from when i went to check him out.

There are more characters through out the game.
You get more guns than the last game and guns are more realistic you now have a TQ gun that can use suppressors but the suppressors deteriate over time.You get loads of guns-from pistols to assault rifles,CQC knife to grenades,grenades to the RPG-7 rocket laucher.
CQC is a new form of combat introduced in MGS3 and will be in any Metal Gear game from here.CQC is useful when sneaking up on guards,you need the CQC knife to actually be able to use it-you can now interrigate guards,slit their throats,and SLAM them real hard.Its also useful for running through when guards are ahead-its a real nifty adition.
You can hunt and fish for food in this game,eating food will recover stamina-Stamina keeps Snake healthy and Happy as he needs it to perform most of his efforted actions.

I RECCOMEND this game to anyone who likes action.Its better than 80% of other action games.
I have all the Metal Gear Solid games-completed and found and unlocked everything.As with Splinter Cell 3:Chaos Theory.
I plan to get The Great Escape and Hitman 2-I love the stealth genre of evey other genre.
Not to mention its got the RICHEST story in any game with romance,action,thriller,horror and sadness.

BYE:
PS:
Has anyone else played Snake Eater-well i`m looking for another game like it-PLEASE TELL ME if there is one.
Here is what i hope it has.
1)ACTION/STEALTH ACTION.
2)ROMANCE-SO IT SHOULD HAVE A WOMAN IN IT(Like EVA,As my friend Daniel likes that!
3)A GOOD STORYLINE!

MGS3 has all these so i am hoping another game has this and please let it not be TOO Sci-Fi(just as much as Snake Eater,nothing like Star Wars or Horror).
If there is please make a review and tell me!

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I have seen all of the trailers, and it looks like a great addition to the series. The game is set in the jungle somewhere in Russia in 1964. A Russian scientist working on a Metal Gear wants safety in the US, because he has become, "afraid of his own creations". Snake's job is to infiltrate the jungle and get the scientist out.

We can expect some twists in the story, because its a Metal Gear game. The trailer hints that snake will defect, but the trailer is extremely random and confusing, so I could be wrong. Anyways, the game will be based on stealth, like other Metal Gear games. This means that if you run into a room with your guns blazing, you won't do too well.

There will be a great camoflage scheme, which shows how well you are camoflaged from 0-100%. 0% means that you will be seen from a mile away, 100% means you will remain hidden unless you move or someone bumps into you. There will be many different costumes you can switch into to better blend with your surroundings. You can also use face paint. For example, if you are against a tree, you will have 100% on your camoflage meter if you use tree bark pattern and black face paint.

Anyways, I think this game will be great, and I can't wait to buy it. I hope I helped you make your decision to buy this game, and thanks for reading my review.

The game isn't even out yet, and people are giving this game 1's. Have you guys even played it or seen the trailer? Anyways, I'll go on with my review.

From what I've seen so far, the game looks awesome. Better than the first two MGS games. The story doesn't seem overly complicated, and it looks pretty cool. The hunting for animals is a neat thing Kojima put in. The characters are desgined well, and it none of them look completely bad. I can't really say anything from gameplay experience, but I'm pretty sure this game will be awesome (in gameplay, story, and characters).

This game is sooo much fun! I highly recommend it. It was a blast to play from beginning to end. The only thing I found wrong with it was the camera angles, but the remake Subsistence I hear fixed that problem by giving you a third person perspective. But sneaking through the jungle and takin out the bad guys was so cool! The graphics of gameplay were amazing as well as the cinematic cutscenes. When watching cutscenes, be sure to hold R1 button when prompted at the top right of your screen. It gives you a different scene to watch temporarily during cinematics. For example, if you see Snake looking through binoculars, you won't see what he is looking at without holding R1 when prompted to do so. If you enjoy shooters and jungle themes, then go get this game. You won't regret it!