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Ludicrously overhyped garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: April 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Please don't be taken in by tha rampant nostalgia, or whatever it is that prevents people from recognizing what a laughably bad "game" this is. Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes, despite the graphics, seems extremely dated in terms of gameplay, which ranges from tedious to quite tedious. People claim it is challenging, and it is, but only because of the astonishingly bad design features, such as over-the-head (WTF?) camera angles, and the awful controls (don't be surprised if you find yourself s-l-o-w-l-y crawling on your belly instead of dive rolling, for example, or shoulder-throwing guards you wanted to choke).

The cutscences, while interesting in a (very) few cases, only emphasize how stupidly underpowered Solid Snake actually is. Imagine, a genetically engineered super solider who can't walk and shoot a gun at the same time (in first person, which is your only way to enjoy field of view that extends more than 6 feet in all directions.

But, wait, the best thing about the game is the realism, right? Sure, when a guard spots you, and unlimited number of guards are teleported in to hunt you down. You can stuff sleeping bodies in lockers! Great, but why not shoot them while there are down, and watch them flicker and disappear, instead?

Well, aren't the boss battles cool? If by "cool" you mean laughably easy, for the most part, with some challenge provided by the aforementioned terrible controls, and crappy camera angles. The only difficult ones involve hand to hand fighting - though that phrase is not entirely accurate since you can hit or be hit from 6 (apparent) feet away. Well, sometimes you can, since the collision detection is also a misery.

I purchased this game because Silicon Knights made Eternal Darkness, my favorite game. Why the team that made a game where you could not swing a long sword in a narrow hallway without hitting the wall couldn't master proper collision detection in MGS:TS I cannot fathom. Why the team that mastered cinematic but servicable third person perspective in ED:SR replaced it with the useless myopic disaster that is MGS:TW is also a mystery.

If you enjoying endless cheesy blathering about "the battlefield" and whether or not love can bloom on it, by all means, buy this game. If you want a challenging game involving infiltration, clever tactics, and rock-solid controls, get Metal Arms: Glitch in the System or Timeslitters 2 instead.

Metal Gear Solid is a travesty, and I can't imaginge what people found to like about it. Your emperor, Solid Snake, has no clothes.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For the people who have reviewd it..........it doesnt come out till today in the afternoon. Either youre trying bring hype on this game or youre trying to make people jelouse wich isnt working. It comes out to day around 2. I know cause I pre copied my game.
Get ur crap correct next time......some people Are reviewing a game that hasnt even come out.

This game sucks snakes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: March 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game today and ten minutes later I was completely sick of it. The graphics are okay; the game play is straight out of 1995. I might have been impressed by this game ten years ago, but by to days standards it's weak! You have no control what so ever of the angles you view the game from, making the left control stick useless. This game's idea of stealth is hiding in a freaking locker while guard pass by. There's really no shadowing or anything to hide in. It's more movie and corny dialogue than game play. Don't believe all the phony hype surrounding this game; it's not the best game of the year. If you are a fan of the first MGS go ahead and buy it, if you're looking for a game like 'splinter cell' save your money. I wouldn't even accept this game as a gift.

Please don't waste your money on this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: March 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased MGS for GameCube and wish I hadn't. If you removed the laboriously long cut scenes there's actually very little game here. I get the impression Hideo wanted to make a film but could only get a job directing a video game and decided to make a film anyway.

The controls and camera are very cumbersome and the bad guys always see you before you can see them. The weapons are very standard - no imagination there. I would have given the game three stars if not for two ridiculous features I've found that totally spoil it. I think Hideo has a crappy sense of humor.

First, there's a spot early in the game where one of the characters tells you to use a radio frequency 'on the back of the package'. I went through the whole game again trying to find the package he was refering to. It turns out he's refering to the package the game came in! Talk about less than total immersion!

Second was one of the bosses who can only be hurt if you use controller three. What the **** it this ****?

One star and I'm being generous. If I ever see Hideo's name on another video game I'm going to run a mile.

it didnt work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

disk one had a nasty scratch soo it never worked for us, hence we never got to play it..very disapointed w/ service ;(((((

Worst. Game. Ever.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I finished this game about a week after buying it. I had only two reasons to finish it at all: 1) so I could be completely justified in my quickly developed low opinion of the game, and 2) so I wouldn't have any lingering sensation of having given up to early.

This would be the third game I've traded in for the gamecube (out of 20 bought), the other two being "Wario World" and "Wallace and Grommit".

My biggest gripe about the game was the extremely poor camera angles. Top-down is quite probably the WORST camera angle you could possibly use in an action game, and that's the camera angle the game chooses whenever you're in any combat situation. But even so, whenever the game picks a camera angle (and it always does, you have no real control over the camera), it nearly always picks the worst possible, given the situation.

As an example, there is a tower you have to climb and you have an infinite number of baddies on your tail and ahead of you. You can't see any of them, of course, because the camera is pointing at you from the side. No view forward or backward.

The ending (don't worry, no spoilers) is insanely long. The cinematics make the game seem more like a c-grade action flick with a few interactive segments here and there. You have no control over the cinematics, and you can't replay them so you either sit and watch the 10-minute sequences or you miss them. When I had finally finished the game, I kept expecting it to be over, but the cinematics just kept going and going, putting the energizer bunny to shame. A "telephone conversation" at the end was about 10 times longer than it needed to be to server the purpose of a segueway into the next release (which I'm in a hurry to not buy).

I couldn't get rid of this game fast enough. I called Game Stop pretty much immediately after finishing, but they were already closed, so I had to wait until they were open again.

ITS BIN CLEARED!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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PUT IT ON PS2!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 36
Date: August 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i want to play the best video game ever made with better graphics and better gameplay but i have a ps2 AND I BOUGHT THE PS2 BECAUSE I WAS SURE THAT ALL THE NEW METAL GEAR GAMES WOULD COME OUT ON THAT SYSTEM!! i dont want to have to buy a gamecube just so i can play one game [...]

Love the original masterpiece - I just wish I could say the same thing about Twin Snakes.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let's face it - Twin Snakes blows. Anyone who says it's good is totally lying to themselves or has not played the original MGS1 for PS1.

A majority of the cut-scenes were unnecessary and really stupid. Snake does some super-human moves that just ridiculous - this isn't The Matrix or some Steven Seagal movie.

Sorry Silicon Knights, but no...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear Solid is my all time favorite game. When I heard that there was going to be a remake I was excited. I had already beaten the Playstation Metal Gears and my friend loaned me his game cube so I could try this game out. I was dissapointed.

TTS
Pros.-
Nice graphics
Boss Surival mode after completion

Cons.-
Voice acting is terrrible unlike the immaculet voice in MGS
Stupid action scenes
Ninja is less menacing
Phsyco Mantis is less menacing
Mei Lings accent is gone
Gamecube controller sucks
Added features make game too easy
Comedy scenens are inapropriate
Foxdie heart attacks are less dramatic

I can go on forever, but I won't. If you want to play this game, please do not play this version. The PLaystation Metal Gear SOlid is the way to go.

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