Metal Gear Solid 4 [REVIEW]

As I said the other day I beat Metal Gear Solid 4 and it was awesome! This is what videogames are all about, Metal Gear is really the first game I have ever played that is a movie that you play. With INCREDIBLE graphics and very crisp, clean sounding Dolby Digital it is total mmersion. Really I would of beat this game about 3-4 days earlier but since my neighbor is such a bitch (basically if I could hear it past 9:00 so could she) I only played this game during the day. I wouldn't settle for any thing less than 18 on the old surround sound system. At night about 10 is the max before the neighbor goes apeshit and try's to kill me. So any who here is the promised review!

So in Metal Gear Solid 4 you play as Solid Snake who has aged into Old Snake. MGS4 takes place 5 years after MGS2, and war has changed. Not in the way of shooting everything that moves but the way everyone works together, everyone now has Nano Machines flowing through there veins. These Nano Machines boost your senses, improve your reaction time, and reduce pain. Thus creating perfect soldiers. I'm not going to say much more because I dont want to ruin the excellent story. Also if you have never played a Metal Gear game or never payed attention to the story you will most likely not like this game. This game has cut-scenes and lots of them. Honestly probably every half hour you get atleast a 10 minute cut-scene. The rumors of this game having 90 minute cut-scenes is bogus, the longest cut-scene was around the 40-50 minute range and that was the last one, so once your about to beat it go make some pop corn or make a sandwich and enjoy the show. When playing for 3 hours you will most likely see 90 minutes of cut-scenes all together, but like I said if your a fan of Metal Gear then you'll enjoy them especially since the Kojima sense of humor is still intact. Just to give you a last clue on the cut-scenes in the end it said I played 18 hours which is a good lenghty game about twice as long as most games are these days, I would say maybe 4-6 hours is cut-scenes. Now for the Boss's the Metal Gear series has been known for the crazy boss battles and why'll there still here there isn't many of them and pretty much all of them are straight forward. As you can probably tell one is like Prey Mantis whome was the greatest boss ever in any game. Just so you know to defeat this boss you dont need any additional hardware and you dont need to change the controller port and if you do change it Otocon will laugh at you telling you your stupid for thinking that trick will work twice! Now for the graphics they are the best you will see in any game as off right now and near future. The game has a native resolution of 720p but supports 480i, 480p, 1080i, and 1080p. The game supports Dolby Digital which is very clean and crisp sounding. I would of liked to see some form of 7.1 sourround sound or atleast Dolby DTS, but since they say they filled up a Dual layer Blu-ray disc this wasn't possible. The game looks good with NO POP IN (WOOOOOOO), also it has very I mean very minimal jaggies on that note the chracter models are the best I have EVER seen there extremely realistic, also since they didn't use the Unreal Engine nothing is shiny that shouldnt be (no shiny sand here)! If you like Metal Gear and have played all of them (Story goes back to MG on NES) you will see Metal Gear Solid 4 ties up the story very well even though I feel it leaves one question unanswered which is brought up in MGS 4. Also the game includes Metal Gear Online which is basically MGS Portable Ops for PSP but with the new engine and more stuff, the Online is hard to get into because it uses Konami IDs which suck BALLS! You have to make two names a Konami ID and a Game ID the two cannont be the same and the Game ID's password can only be Numbers. I dont know who thought of that but they need to be dead ASAP! Really there is no reason to not own this game even if you never played Metal Gear before it will still be enjoyable. If you have played them before and liked them you need to pick this masterpiece up!
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Metal Gear Solid 4 has been Won!

Yesterday around 7:00pm I beat Metal Gear. It was a fantastic game! The game looked as good if not better than the trailers and No none of the cut-scenes were 90 minutes long. The longest cut-scene was at the end which was around the 40 minute mark. I really enjoyed this game probably the best I have ever played! Expect a review soon!
Ps.... Don't count on that MGS Remake :-(

1,000 Strong

I just recently passed the 1,000 songs played on my Zune. This happened in a month and a half. If you think about it thats a long time just listening to music on average a song is 4min is that is 4,680 minutes or 78 hours of music. That is more time than: total hours played in Call of duty 4, 936 Horse Races, its enough time to cook 15.6, 24lbs. turkeys, if I listened to all of my music again Metal Gear Solid 4 would be out. As you can see thats a lot of time and it was a fine experience with my Zune. Also during this time I got 3 Badges which are like Achievements, 2 Badges are for being a Bronze Artist Power listener (50 songs from Artist) and the other one is a Bronze Album Power Listener (50 songs from same album). The two artists are Lil John and the Eastside Boyz and Nelly, the album is Nellyville. So far I really like my Zune and would recommend it to anyone looking for a MP3 player, I love the Social aspect where you get to see what your friends have been listening to and if you have a Zune Pass it even downloads there top 10 most played songs for you. With the inclusion of T.V. show downloads the Zune is starting to be a real iPod competitor.

Haze Has Been Won

At 3:20 today I beat Haze. Haze is a Playstation 3 exclusive that hasn't really had any good reviews, and after playing it I can't really see why it would get a 6/10. I'll admit that it's no 10 or even a 9 but its definitely not a 6. For the first 25% of the game you play as a soldier for the Mantel corporation. Mantel is a company that is into the cutting edge, they have the very best everything, the best guns, best vehicles, and best soldiers! You'll agree once you play it. For the other 75% of the game you are in a anti-Mantel group called The Promise Hand whom thinks Mantel is up to no good and wants to stop them. I'm not going to talk much about the story since its easy to spoil and I don't want to ruin it for you, but I will say its very interesting and I think it symbolizes the war in Iraq, like I said I won't ruin it for you but theres a tidbit for ya. Now lets get to the game. Starting with controls it has your pretty basic shooting controls like R1 to shoot, L1 to throw grenade, X to jump, O to change weapons, square is your action button, and triangle reloads, R2 hits and L2 depends if your a Mantel soldier (Use Nector) and if your a Promise Soldier its to play dead. The actual game is very slow paced think Rainbow Six and is some what a tactical game, there is no run button or cover button. The game is also very smooth running at a solid 30fps and is presented in 720p only, the game has minimal jaggies and very little pop in. This is achieved with a 5GB mandatory install which sucks! but is worth it. The sound is very well done presented in Dolby DTS which is a less compressed version of Dolby Digital and sounds great. I haven't tried the multiplayer yet but it supports voice chat and the 4 player co-op is really smooth think Burnout Paradise. The game does have its flaws. I think this game takes the cake for the DUMBEST A.I. teammates EVER. They will either just shoot the guy 3 or 4 times not killing him or just run past him completely, sometimes they even run with the enemy. The game also has very bad gun damage it takes 10 shots sometimes it takes 30 shots just to kill one guy, granted I was playing in hard. Also the vehicles handle like balls basically if you hold left your car will immediately turn completely sideways no matter how fast your going also they make noise that makes them seem like there going a lot faster but it looks like your going 15mph. Also I have never been killed by a vehicle so much, sometimes the vehicle wasn't even moving, sometimes the enemy will be coming at you try to ram you and miss but yet you still die. Check the more detailed list in the post below. Haze is a good game but could of been much better. It shows they rushed it and if they make a second one it will be much better. Really the thing that threw me over the edge in not giving this game a 9 is the teammates say the same damn thing over and over again similar to this song.




As you can see this guy got sick of it and shot him self in the eye, good move buddy. Haze is a great game and is a refreshing experience. I say wait till its $40 and then it will be a must have but if your looking for a game to fill the void between now and the 12th its not to bad of an idea to pick this one up since its only around the 8 hour mark.
8.0