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Do Your Research!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To all the people who are complaining about how they wanted an action game instead of a card-based strategy game, please do some research on a game before you lay down $50 for it or even $240 for a console.
Now, for those who know what they're getting in to, I loved this game. I do like card and strategy games, which I found this one to be very solid (no pun intended). But what really one me over was the cards themselves. If you haven't played the previous "Metal Gear Solid" games or even "Metal Gear" you may not find them interesting, but if you have you will find the cards to be a huge database from "MGS3-MGS2" and even a sneak peek at "MGS4".
Overall I found this to be a very enjoyable game.

Worth a second examination

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When Metal Gear Ac!d was first released, it was the subject of scorn from the majority of Metal Gear fans. Excited by the prospect of a Metal Gear game on their new Playstation Portables, fans were dejected to discover that this wasn't really a Metal Gear game at all. In reality it was a spinoff title that didn't even exist within the same continuity. Worst of all, it wasn't even "Tactical Espionage Action"...it wasn't even an action game!

Instead, what Konami delivered us was a strategy/card game. Such games were not new - they had existed in mini-games in other RPG titles and even full-fledged "card" games had been released in the past, though many of these didn't cross the pacific.

Now that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has been released though, and given fans what they had been wanting since the PSP was released, this game is worth a second examination. It may have alienated the core Metal Gear fanbase, but for the type of game it is - it is VERY GOOD at what it does. The plot is interesting and the script well written. There may not be much voice acting in the game, but at least I feel like I can hear David Hayter's voice when Solid Snake is speaking. The advantage this offers is that as a gamer you need NO KNOWLEDGE of any previous title in the Metal Gear franchise. So if Metal Gear's stealth gameplay doesn't appeal to you, that doesn't mean this game needs to be ruled out. It is a very good strategy game and the card system produces an element of chance that causes any given stage to play out a little differently each time.

Perhaps you'll get lucky and acquire potent cards early, perhaps you'll instead have to rely on more mundane cards. The card game is, itself, simple while still having a variety of different cards that produce interesting effects. Also notable are the character cards - these cards usually depict someone from the series such as Grey Fox or Olga Gurlukovich. When you play their card, you get to see a short rendered clip of that character from their source game. Very cool.

If you're looking for a traditional Metal Gear game, then this is definitely one to avoid - check out Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops instead. However, if you have a taste for strategy games - regardless of whether or not you love or hate Metal Gear then this game is worth checking out.

Not what I expected.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is not what I expected for a metal gear game. The title should be changed, cause never had I thought that metal Gear could be played with CARDS!!! Sounds stupid huh? When I first picked it up I almost threw it in the garbage, but I figured I'd give it a chance. So after beating it several times and getting all the cards I realized how addictive this game was. It is interesting how the devlopers left the standard metal gear format and went to this. I think they did a pretty good job with it. However for changing the third person action gameplay to a turned base card action RPG almost, it loses a star out of spite.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are fan of MGS, this is must have game. Is very smart that card based game. People complain about how much time to pass a mission and all, You just have to get used to. First mission I died at least 10 times before I pass, but soon as you understand the cards, things go a lot smoother. I guess is good that I have patient. Pretty soon I'll buy "Acid 2" then "Portable Ops"

Tangent of Metal Gear

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all this is a card based game. If you have never played one, like me, your going to be confused for a while. After getting used to it you will decide its eigther a horrible way to paly a game, its challengeing and im too cheap to go buy another game, or that you enjoy it. The easier mode is of course a little easier but the hardest mode is very tedious. In terms of a Metal Gear Solid game it mostly uses the name and the plot, the gameplay is a tangent from the series. I reccomend renting this game first to see if you like it, then buy it. It has loads of features to keep you wanting to play, such as collecting cards mostly. Purchase with caustion but for some this can be a very enjoyable game.

Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. Its alot different than the previous Metal Gears but that contains alot of the appeal, to me at least. It didnt take long at all to get used to the new card based game structure. Its one of those rare games that creates a challenge without frustrating to crap out of you. If you like a good card based military game, this is for you. Theres alot of history and character apperances from the previous Metal Gear games as well, which is a nice bonus.

warning cheap immatation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I got this game I couldnt wait to play it.This game is probably the worst one in the series. The 1st problem was that they talk for about ten minutes before you get to start.The 2nd problem is that the set up is completly different and they make you play it like a card game, and you also have a limited number of moves until the enemy moves. You don't even get to shoot. So if you like the previous games DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

single most frusturating game ever made

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off let me just say that I love the MGS series and i thought MGS 3 was one of the best games to come out in a long time. The problem with this game is the card based crap, The developers should of just made it like the other MGS series. This game just continues to become more frusturating the farther you go into it. Why the hell is it taking you so ling because it takes about 15 minutes to kil 2 guys. You each take turns shooting at eachother and the more guys show up the more they get to shoot at you while you can only shoot one guy at a time. Most of the scenarios go like this "okay im gonna take out this one guy unseen" (5 minutes elapsed) "great 4 more guys are here to try and kill me too, O one of them is unconscious and on the floor I'l just use the trusty desert eagle and kill him no problem i mean im only 1 block away *takes the shot* (...) i missed howd that happen. *takes MGA introduces it to a cherry bomb and blows it to hell so no one else has to suffer through this hell hole*. So all in all I would say the only people that should buy this game are people who have immense amounts of patience. The only reason i gave this game 2 stars is because it functions on the psp and it is made by the metal gear developers.

great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

see people, this game isnt sopposed to be a sequal or a continuation of SOLID games. it is only THEMED MGS, and can be played if just about any game were applied. take GTA. replace FAMAS with AK-47, USP with Colt .45, and Rations with 'ice cream', if you know what i mean. most people would shudder at that fact, but face it; its a game of chess here, i tense up as much as i do here as i did in MGS 1 and 2. The twists and turns of the plot are tremendus, and that, sir, is enough to play it.

A great story marred by horrid game play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Metal Gear the card game. What idiot thought this up? Card based video games (like the Urban themed games) are really getting on my nerves. They're often times slow paced, and obnoxious in that you never seem to have the card for the action that you want. The game even requires you to use cards to move! Every action, and reaction are restricted by a card system that is too complex, and too difficult to get a grip on. Worse yet by the time you've figured out how to play it you're squaring off against the game's requisite Metal Gear.
On the plus side the game's graphics are pretty good, and the story is superb, albeit a little convoluted. Regardless it's the well written story that will probably force you to complete the game.
The down side is that the story is presented in text and hand drawn stills as opposed to the fully voiced cinematic (yet real time) cut scenes that Metal Gear is known for. There is no reason aside from developer laziness that the presentation had to suffer like this. In fact, it is this presentation which makes the story somewhat convoluted, as it is at times, difficult to tell what's happening.
The music is also pretty disappointing for this "all powerful" handheld (PSP). If MGA is your primary reason for buying the PSP, let me forewarn you, you're probably better off looking for story spoilers on the web. This game has so many annoying game play problems it's barely worth it to play at all. If this had been a real Metal Gear game rather than a cheap card based knock off it could have been something special.

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