Game of the Week: Metal Gear Solid | Video Games, Reviews ...

This 1998 release was not the first in the illustrious franchise, yet it was indubitably the game that bore its burgeoning acclaim. This stealth ?em up retains its lofty position amongst the very pinnacle of the Playstation?s output; indeed Metal Gear Solid is still a frequent bastion of Greatest Games Ever Made lists. Let?s take a machete of illumination/mockery to the roots of this prodigious reputation.

The plot finds Solid Snake, infiltrator extraordinaire, dispatched to Alaska to quell a formidable uprising at a nuclear weapons disposal facility. The perpetrators are composed of the erstwhile special forces unit, FOXHOUND. Liquid Snake, their kingpin and our primary antagonist, presents demands to the government in lieu of A SURELY RATHER PAINFUL NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION IN THEIR FACES. (?Hey ma! Where are the band-aids? That hairy guy with the hideous English accent dropped another nuclear bomb on my head.?) They aren?t being facetious either, whiling away an overcast afternoon with prank phonecalls or shenanigans of that nature. FOXHOUND possess Metal Gear REX, a gargantuan bipedal battle-bot capable of the aforementioned nuclear ravaging.
In summation, it?s spare underpants time.

Particularly so for solitary soldier Solid Snake, entrenched in the facility with only belligerent guards and moronic voices in his Codec for company. The manner in which our protagonist undertakes his endeavours makes for nigh-unprecedented gameplay; clandestine creepings and the oft-ballyhooed tactical espionage action are your modus operandi. Hiding in corners, befuddling surveillance cameras with chaff grenades and surrepticiously ensconcing yourself in a cardboard box are some of the stealthy shenanigans that await for your delectation. In tandem with the ubiquitous Soliton radar, these are refreshing concepts indeed in a trigger-happy age. This isn?t to say you won?t accrue a vast myriad of ballistics (seemingly concealed somewhere in that skin-tight Sneaking Suit of yours) through the course of Metal Gear Solid. Indeed, you can gleefully engage in such wanton sadism as ?guard hunting? with a surface-to-air missile launcher should the whim take you. Yet this is not, as is surely plain, the optimum manner of executing a strictly sub rosa operation. Tactical is indeed le mot juste.

As a yarn, the story is exquisitely convoluted, belied by a wonderful cinematic flair; as is the wont of Hideo Kojima. You will clamor to discover who is betraying who, why that gargantuan shaman is cruising around a snowfield in a tank, why Deepthroat is entreatying you to propel a self-guided missile at a fusebox (and, further, how he knows THERE ARE CLAYMORE MINES AROUND THERE!) and suchlike. Who is that cyborg ninja? Why would he relinquish that lightsabre of his, only to employ a far more strenuous series of crotch-thrusting gymnastic proclivities in a theatrical attempt to punch our face?

Raconteurs still compose enamoured odes to the motley menagerie of boss encounters; encompassing helicopters, ricocheting bullets besetting an old dude, huge manbeasts patrolling a frozen warehouse (merrily hefting an aircraft?s gatling gun as though it were a mere child?s tricycle) and other anomalous wonderment. A truly seminal release, and a testament to the mantra that quality is timeless.

Source: http://www.gamingsurvival.com/2012/08/25/game-of-the-week-metal-gear-solid/

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