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The beginning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Yeah I know, it's called "Metal Gear Solid THREE" but it's actually the first story of the ENTIRE Metal Gear Series - you play as Naked Snake who is actually Big Boss, the father of Liquid, Solid, and Solidus Snake. But he looks JUST like Solid Snake and even has his voice.

Gameplay is very-slightly different with the addition of "Close Quarters Combat" which adds depth into fighting rather than the throwing/punch-punch-kick from the first MGs. There's no radar in this game, which gives it a more realistic feel having the player rely on different uniforms of camo and face paint along with motion detectors and sensors to avoid being caught by guards. There's also a stamina bar which can be replenished by eating animals and plants you take down (the stamina bar is basically energy - calories and as it decreases, Snake will not be as physically "in shape" (harder time moving, difficulty to aim a gun - because he's hungry!). Typical Alert-Evasion modes are still present, but I have to say there are parts in the game where it can be rather difficult to get out of Alert mode, but when that happens I just run the whole way through to get to the next destination. Controls are the same for the most part but you're forced to use the analog stick to run, and grabbing enemies is the O button which is the CQC button. Metal Gear veterans will definitely enjoy this game, I personally like it the best out of the first 3 MGS (can't judge with the 4th yet as I'm still playing it on the PS3). After a week or so I've already beaten it 5 times!

Personally I say don't play it on "Very Easy" because it's amazingly easy and there's almost no challenge with the "EZ Gun." I suggest MGS veterans start playing it on normal mode.

Story-wise, I loved this story better than the previous Metal Gear titles , it's a bit more real-ish (it takes place in 1964 during the Cold War), and has less of that philosophical babble and convoluted dialog from Metal Gear Solid 2, and has a simpler storyline perhaps easier to understand than the first Metal Gear Solid.

Overall, I give this game 5 stars, an A+, 100%, whatever - just to me it's an excellent game, and Metal Gear fans are bound to like this one and I give a "Highly Recommended" to Metal Gear Solid 3.

Metal Gear Solid 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 were amazing games with basically the same scenory but amazing scenes that were well done with a dramatic touch and great voice acting. Snake Eater takes the gameplay to a whole new level with a change of scenory to more of a jungle feel. If you enjoyed the first two games, then you will definately enjoy this game.

the same as the others

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

all the metal gear solid games are the same ive played them all iam not even going to explain how this game was, this game was just the same.

Greatest prequel to the Metal Gear Solid Saga!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I have been a fan of the MGS seires since 1998 (the first MGS1), so I know what I'm talking about...this is one of the greatest prequels I have yet to play, I purchased this back then in 2004 when it was released. It is fun, entertaining and a great storyline - and the game keeps that whole stealth feel to it in the jungle. Kojima surely didn't entirely disappoint with this one. However as I played this game more and more over the past years, it occurred to me the more I play it, the more un-realistic the game feels and how "silly" it was overall the other MGS games, here are some of the flaws / disappointments:

1. The Cobra Unit: Which was simply the worst boss unit / characters in the MGS saga. The unit was so superhuman and unreal I didn't even who to begin to criticize. Probably the worst of them all was "The Pain" who has the ability to control bees at his will. During the boss fight, he does the most idiotic movements ever. The game lacked any background information about them, all we know is that they are unit of "The Boss" and fought a long side with her. And none of the "special abilities" were explained in the game at all. Probably the only decent "cool" that I actually liked was "The Sorrow", who appears from time to time in the game and helps Snake throughout the game.

2. Simple Storyline: Ok, I liked the storyline it was "ok"...but it was too simple. It was somewhat predictable of what happened in the end so it wasn't a shocker when It happened. I will not spoil it here, but it wasn't a huge plot twist like the previous games. It was just straight forward.

3. Cheesy cut-scenes: There was some crappy / lame and unnecessary cut-scenes, for instance there was some about EVA doing stupid "Evil Knievel" like stunts with her motorcycle.

4. The Boss: I really hated her, never liked her from the beginning to end, she was overrated and unbelievable. A woman at that time in the 40's could have never join the Army and become a elite-soldier and do special Op missions in the 60s, but I'm glad you get to blast her in the game.

But overall, the game was absolutely fantastic. That is why I'm still giving it 5 stars. Not as strong or as powerful as the first, but still up there.

5 out of 5!

Best video game in existence

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid is not for your typical video game and is especially not for the typical video game player, I know because I find 90% of all modern day video games too repetitive. You played Halo you've played every single FPS that will ever be made, if they can slather on new graphics and resale the rotten corpse of Doom to you again and again then have fun.

This game all comes down to say one stage, there is an enemy compound with a couple of buildings, some trenches surrounding it, electric fences, wooden sheds with ammo and food, M60s on tripods, a massive helicopter and dozens of enemy soldiers patrolling the area. You can get down and crawl around the edge of the screen until you reach the other side and you're done. Or you can slowly sneak behind trees around the perimeter of the compound and off every soldier one by one. Or you can off a soldier, drag him to where the most enemies will notice the body, rig it with TNT then detonate when they come to check on him. Or you can sneak to the right around every single enemy, make your way to the ammo shed, rig it with TNT, put claymore mines around perimeter of the shed, sneak under the helicopter rigging it with TNT, then climb on a ladder to the top of a building, detonate the ammo shed, and watch as enemies approaching the smoldering rubble step on your claymore mines (blowing up ammo sheds enemies further down the line will start to run out of ammo during firefights). Or you can take out your AK47 and run straight into everyone enemy shooting them point blank tossing grenades every where. OR....

See the idea is, in most video games you play a stage and its over, MGS3 it seems there are endless ways to run through every screen. Your character Snake has what at first seems an impossible amount of moves to master and that is probably the main turnoff for people who just want to flip a game on and blow everyone up. To become good and get the most out of this game you need to completely immerse yourself into it and I have to say this is the most involving game I've ever played. The story is amazingly cheesy, but it feels like the makers knew that any video game cinematic will be cheesy no matter what so they just went as over the top as they could every scene. Completely surreal and certainly grabs everyones attention in the room, it seems Hideo Kojima has an personally goofy and distinctly Japanese edge that is completely missing in every other video game who's idea of weird is falling back on bad cliches without any irony or anything indicating intelligence. Feel the dull stupidity of the cut scenes of Resident Evil 4 or take your pick from any game really. I understand for most games it just propels stage to stage but MGS3 is such a unique tightly constructed world its far more of an experience than most games without being a hopelessly crappy RPG.

Dunno what to add, I love this game, its one of those you either "get it" or you don't, I am so glad I got it.

Amazing Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played all mgs games since nintendo, i would dare to say that this saga it's the best action game ever made, because of the history, the characters, the music, scenarios, action. etc.. in my own opinion i prefer mgs 1 for ps1 i think that's the best game, this one is very good but i think the history in mgs1 was really impresive like if you were playing a real good action movie, but still this game is also one of the best, the controls are great, the dificulty is good, you have to think a lot to complete your mission, it's not that you're going killing everybody in your way, it's very strategic to complete your objectives.

Amazing Game, But Recommend Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The visuals in this game are amazing! Since this game takes place in the jungle, you see everything from snakes to rats. And unlike the first two Metal Gear games, this game requires a lot of stealth. The very helpful radar is not available throughout the game, but the game does give you a human sensor that detects life forms for a few seconds. This is also by far the most complex Metal Gear game made.

Is game is great, but the camera angle is terrible for this game. I would recommend Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for better camera angles, and possibility a more enjoyable game.

Rise of the Big Boss: A Snake Eater Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Unknown to many gamers the Metal Gear series has been running since the NES days with the release of Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge. In 2004 we got the latest release of the series- MGS 3: Snake Eater- that shows that Kojima and company are still hard at work with these great games.
Interesting enough the story in MGS 3 takes place before any of the games in the series. It tells how a fairly ordinary but extremely well-skilled special forces/cia agent guy rose to the top of the American government's special forces. After his rise to the top, he gets a new name- "Big Boss" and will eventually form Fox Hound: a highly-skilled special forces group which his son: "solid snake" (see Metal Gear Solid Greatest Hits) is initially a part of.
Later on in the series "solid snake" is forced to kill big boss in one of his missions (I believe it is in Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge). MGS 3 doesn't tell you how big boss became a bad guy but instead paints a picture of his nature being quite similar to solid snake's; He's just a special forces guy doing his job. To use an analogy, it's like in star wars when they explain how Anakin Skywalker became the top jedi and how he was trained after explaining the details of Luke's life when they decided to release episodes 1-3 after 4-6. Kojima and co. are kind of following a similar formula here.
The story in this game also helps explain the beginning of the development of the Metal Gear machine and the beginning of the Patriots. Thus if you have played any of the metal gear games- old or newer- this game will help explain alot, without being teribbly confusing (unlike MGS 2).

Gameplay: 8.5/10
Snake Eater plays real great and it seems to take full advantage of the PS2 controller. There's plenty of variety in the gameplay, especially with the new moves in this game. It's nice that they incorporated the whole eating aspect to the game along with using your environment to your advantage. However, its worse fault is that the game (on normal mode at least) is a bit easy and it doesn't penalize you as much as the other games in the series for getting caught. Thus it seems that stealth is not entirely necessary. This is unfortunate as the MGS games are some of the best stealth games around and most people buy them with this in mind. However even if you use stealth the game is still fun and rewarding. I recommend playing it at least on hard.

Sound: 9.9/10
Everything is great here except the "snake eater" theme song. The song just sounds too james bondish and repeats "snake eater" way too much. Come up with with some better lyrics next time for the main theme song if you're going to have one with lyrics.

Graphics: 9.5/10
There's some unbelievable graphics in the game, like the character/weapon models and alot of the scenery. Only if you are really, really looking will you find some minor graphical shortcomings.

Morality Rating: 8
There's plenty of killing you can do with potentially graphical results. You can slit throats, break necks, shotgun blast to the face, snipe enemies in the head, etc. The throat slitting- which is new- is the most graphic. However you can alternatively go about without using much force at all and when you do you can resort to a tranquilizer gun that resembles a real handgun (but obviously is not lethal). You can also turn all of the blood off. Finally, when you come to meet the character "the Sorrow" he will point out how violent you have been and sort of (in an implied manner) recommend that you cause less pain/death. This really stood out and I whole-heartily commend the developers for this. I would however justify lethal weapons as that way you don't have to worry about the guard waking up when you are trying to sneak around. However I still did use a tranquilizer alot as there seemed to be more ammo for it in many areas than for many other weapons.
Also (for all who may be concerned) there's quite a bit of suggestive themes in the cinematics. However there's never any sex. There's also some open references to bi-sexual behavior. Overall, I would say this game is not for children.

Value: 9.5/10
The game is great and the story is very powerful and moving. Few games out there really explain what true patriotism is about as well as this game does. Plus the graphics, sound, and gameplay are all great and justify a rent or purchase.
If you are really into these games though I would recommend that you buy MGS 3: Subsistence and not Snake Eater as it has alot more goodies that will expand the replay value much further than Snake Eater itself is capable of. Snake Eater in of itself though is very cheap and worth the purchase.

Say what you will about Metal Gear, but I think this is the greatest game of all time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing video games since the SNES, and in my years of gaming this is the greatest game I have ever come across.It is so epic, and exciting and it just has a certain charm to it. I've beaten this game over 18 times(on all modes) and I still have a desire to play through this game, in fact,I just recently rented subsistence and beat it again!I have always been a big fan of the MGS series. I've beaten all three games in the series multiple times,and I'm looking forward MGS4, but I think It will be very hard for MGS4 to trump MGS3.read on to find out!

Graphics; The graphics in this game are incredible, both for 2004 standards and today's standards. using only the ps2 limited technology, Konami has made a game that stands up to highly advanced games on the PC like half life 2, and Doom 3.Not to mention that the art style in this game is absolute incredible, it portrays the jungle in extremely realistic looking way, without resorting to the bland style of graphics you see in most military games these days.

Sound/Music; At first the opening theme may sound ridiculous and hackneyed, but delve deeper into the game, and you soon realize that the music in this game is actually better then most score for Hollywood movies.Composed by Harry Gregson Williamson.(who composes a lot of Hollywood movies and did the soundtrack for mgs2.)The soundtrack for MGS3 truley captures whatever your doing in the game. Whether your sneaking around an enemy encampment, or blasting away guards with a shotgun, The music will fit what you are doing.

Gameplay; The gameplay in MGS3 is amazing.(just like everything else in the game!)This game gives you a lot of choices. You can walk up behind a guard and slit his throat,you can take him hostage by pointing your gun at him, or you can go Rambo and shoot him in the face with an AK! It's up to you in MGS3. other interesting implementations in the gameplay is the camo system and the cure system. With the camo system there is a little gauge at the top of the screen that tells you how well hidden you are, and what camouflage you are wearing determines how well hid you are. The cure system is another new implementation in the MGS series. It ads realism and depth to the game in the fact that you actually have to heal your own wounds rather then just take a health pack.

Story; I won't spoil it for you, all I can tell you is that it's the best story you'll see in a game, ever.

Closing Statements; Hideo Kojima has created yet another masterpiece, You must buy this game, If you can't buy it,borrow it, and if you can't do either of those,steal it. This is gaming at it's peak.You must play this game.

Terrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'd never played a MGS game before, started with this one. This game is god awful. I won't bother going into detail; it's already covered in the negative reviews here.

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