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Thu 24/01/02 at 12:16
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What a game it is.....amazing.....here are my 15 highlights from the demo. ###May be spoilers!#####






1)Shooting out a guards radio before he has chance to radio for help....then i shot him with the stun gun...he fell over and fell asleep.......i picked him up....dragged him along the ground and lent him against a wall......then i got out the digital camera...took a photo of him.....picked him back up and stuffed him in a locker.

2)Splattering a guared all over anothers shield.

3)Shooting the entire shelf of bottles and watching them drip all over the floor.....its a shame i left wine foot prints else maybe i wouldn't have been caught.

4)Picking up porn mag and leaving it in a guards path.....u should have seen him drooling over it!

5)Holding hostage a guard pointing my gun at his privates so that he would hand over weapons and dog tags.

6)Getting a collection of dog tags (shame the dog tag viewer isn't available on the demo)

7)Shootin a extinguisher and accidently making snake sneeze from the gases...that blew me cover.

8)hiding in a locker to find a FHM poster on the inside. Press R1 and snake makes a squilch sound heh heh.

9)Shooting the shelf in the food room and watching all the veggies splatter every where.

10)Shooting the magazine rack then running oof and hiding then hearing a guared so......"No!, not the mgazines"......he bends over in distraught and i can get passed him.

11)Almost lining my pants when i see a shadow of Vulcan Raven (Dum dum dum!) on the wall but then to my relief realising that it is just a toy on the floor made big by the shadow it produced by a torch.

12)Shooting the Raven toy.....It started up and fired little balls all over the floor (How cool is that)

13)Shooting a guard all over the body with stun darts......MGS's version of Sonic the hedgehog had just been born.

14)Knocking a guard over a balcony onto another guard. Talk about killing 2 birds with 1 stone!

15)Learning that everything can be trashed.....Windows smashed.....bootles shattered.....lockers kicked in(Especially useful if they are locked)......watching a Liquid Crystal Display T.V. bleed as its shot......Destroying a plant (To Mr.Titchmarshes discrace).........knocking a box over and watching a;; the contents fall out!...shooting flour sacks filling the room with flour (It even settles on Snake!)

16)Hiding in a box only to be dicovered.....RED ALERT.....all the guards come running.....radio for more back up is done by one guard......SO.....only one thing to do!....smack him....grab his body.....use it as a shield so the others don't shoot at you....toss his body aside....and peg it from them!


OOPS thats 16 things.....oh well there is so much to do i could have gone on forever.


One thing i must mention though is how could the AI is.....Guards are alerted by the slightst mistake and react to it brilliantly.....they call for help and they even state what part of the playing level they are!

e.g. "Quick....I need backup!....the intruder is in the crews lounge....hurry he's getting away...over......hey you come back......." Message replied to......"All back up teams.....go to the crews lounge...we have a red alert!"


I think it is so cool the way they communicate even saying where abouts they are....also when the are patrolling they nod to each other....kick each other if one is asleep, and the alert team even say to the guared that called them "O.k. we are here...where is he!". Also guards do other stuff like scratching bits of their body (*cough*), smoke, put search goggles on to search in the horizon, and loads more.

The graphics are the best yet on PS2....rain splashes off snake....each guard/character is beautifally detailed with guns and stuff all over their body, the surroundings are detailed up to the eye balls and all can be destroyed with bits flying every where. Dead bodys stay in the surroundings but after a while the others get worried because nothing has been heared from their patrol area for a while so they come and check everything is o.k. if they find the dead body everything goes on red alert but if you manage to hide it then they will just be a little suspicious for a while and then put some one else on guard there.

So if your still wondering what all the fuss is about then why? MGS2 WILL be the best game ever. Pre order it now!



So what are your views on the game. Post 'em here. Nat
Thu 24/01/02 at 16:53
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I know about raiden but the pilskin thing??????? aint he that russian bloke.....just say no or yes....i don't want to know any more
Thu 24/01/02 at 16:49
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Don't believe me. Okay, why have magazines only been showing Level 1 shots and all with Snake pics that look alike. Iraquis Pilskin has Snake's eyes, and smokes. The evidence is their. Wait till i tell you the real killer... the Ending.
Thu 24/01/02 at 16:47
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Asher....just coz u work for Konami doesn't mean i beleive u.
Thu 24/01/02 at 16:46
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You call them spoilers. The main character is Raiden, not Snake. Solid Snake is meant to be dead. He comes back as Iraquis Pilskin. The Ninja comes back.
Thu 24/01/02 at 16:41
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I'd be really cool if u came to a ps2 in the game and it asks you to swap to 'any konami game' so u put a konami game in and can play it and like u said u could play against otacon and if u won he would react to it.
Thu 24/01/02 at 15:12
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Natbuc wrote:
'pinch my pole'

LOL! They could have made the mention of that a subgame "Load up IT&F, and I'll whip ya butt boy! I'll show ya who's master!"

Swap discs load in IT&F and kick his butt all over the track oh and field!

Load MGS2 back up and Otacon is all, oh your the master, I'm just crap blah, blah, blah

Yeah ok, I know, digressing from the main point but hey, who cares it's a forum and we can discusss what we want!!
Thu 24/01/02 at 15:05
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It will probably be any game made by Konami....."Snake......when u get back i will challenge u to International Track and Field, i will beat u in pole vault, providing u don't 'pinch my pole'"(In the cleanest way possible)
Thu 24/01/02 at 14:52
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Glad to see that you understood my post, I was beginning to think it sounded crap....phew!

Like you said, the US gamers who've had this for a while now do seem to have spoilt it (game) for the rest of us. I had deliberately kept myself away from topics relating to MGS2 but in the end you just drift in there outta curiosity!

Unfortunately, curiosity kills the game and yep I know most of the story line by now.....doh!

The memory card idea sounds really good although what happens if you haven't played PES? I for one haven't so Otacon is gonna have to pick on something different! "I see you've played SSX Tricky, I can beat that score....hahaha!" or how about "GTA3 I see you've completed 79%, well I've done it all so Nah Nah NahNah!"?
Thu 24/01/02 at 14:36
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Apparently they've taken the memory card thing to higher levels in this installment.......its said at one point that Otacon says something like "Snake, when u get back i'll challnge u 2 a game of winning eleven 5(Jap version of the game, should be pro evo in mgs2 uk)" and then snake replies "You sure you can beat me?" And then otacon says "Well u have won the (he reads through all the cups in ur gallery) so u must be pretty good, but i've been practising" this sounds pretty cool. I don't know if it's true or not and i don't know if any other games r mentioned but i willl keep u posted. :)
Thu 24/01/02 at 12:53
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Cheers m8......I understand ur point clearly......i was a bit like that 2 but i couldn't resist.....but what i have done mainly on the demo is not try to complete it but just mess around...then the plot isn't spoilt too much neither......

Also

Hideo Kojima is one that likes to keep things under raps. I think the only reason we found out about Raiden was because the US gamers put it on the net after they got the game, else i think Hideo would have wanted it to be kept a secret. So.....i was surprised he didn't make a kinda 'demo only' level that wasn't in the game so people could get to see how the game played without seeing the plot before they get the real game......if ya get what i mean. :)

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