bit-tech Shopping: Konami Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)

• Action/Adventure
• Simulation

Rating: 6

Time with product: 30 Days

Strengths: great graphics, great story, and soundtrack

Weaknesses: no online play

Summary: It is a great stealth action game. It has a good story and sound track. Has good AI. Lots of bosses. It also has lots of cut scenes some pretty long.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 1 Days

Strengths: Snake Eater could do alot of things like kill things and then eat it,get guns,bullets,and more.

Weaknesses: The camera is weird at some points in the game.

Summary: Through Metal Gear Solid 1,2 and 3 Snake Eater goes through enemies and it never stops getting better. Metal Gear risks his life trying to obtain the metal gear.Snake Eater passes through all types of enemies like territories and governments. If he completes his mission peace will come to the world.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 6 Months

Strengths: Natural jungle environments, brilliant use of gadgetry, memorable characters and situations

Weaknesses: None.

Summary: After the largely disappointing Metal Gear Solid 2, which had a confusing storyline and raised more questions than it answered, Hideo Kojima and his team at Konami Japan hit the nail on the head with Metal Gear Solid 3. The game is set in the 1960's and explains much of the backstory to the original games in the series. The majority of the game takes place in an outdoors, jungle environment, leaving the player to make use of different styles of camoflauge, gadgetry, and medicine to survive. MGS3 has a wonderful cast of characters that nearly match the coolness of those in Metal Gear Solid.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 3 Months

Strengths: Great gameplay, great praphics.

Weaknesses: Trippy story.

Summary: Great game. Before I played any Metal Gear Solid games, I had really only played Splinter Cell. Playing this game made me realize that there really was a wider world of stealth games than what I had been playing. The gameplay was very different, but still very good in a different way than I was used to. For me, this game was a novel experience, and for a gamer as jaded as I, that is something to treasure. This graphics in this game are really good, especially cinsidering that they are on the ps2. They push that machine further than I thought it could be pushed.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: fun story, great gameplay, great boss battles

Weaknesses: camera is difficult

Summary: This is exactly what you'd expect from the Metal Gear series. A fantastically made game with lots of polish and an over the top, campy, yet fun plot with excellent gameplay and lots of easter eggs to find. It is funny, dramatic and captivating, challenging yet lenient, and a whole lot of fun. The only problem I have is with the camera, which is not free floating so it is hard to see things you want to see sometimes and to get the best look when you need to. Oh well, it still is a lot of fun.