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It's a good game.
Plus Points:
Graphics are cool, and the tanker level is great fun.
Good fun stuffing people in lockers.
Shooting seagulls
Slipping on bird poo
Animations on the guards etc are phenomenal
There's a Vampire who kills people a lot.
Bad Points:
Too many cut-scenes, slows the gameplay down immensely. Although when playing through again, you could skip them.
No VR Training
I started as Snake on the Tanker, then tried a different setting to see if I got the VR Training and found myself as Raiden, missing the tanker level out completely.
Raiden looks like Charlotte Church.
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It's definately one of the best PS2 games out there, but for me this isn't the best game ever made.
It's a lot of fun doing things like shooting plates and stuff, but then another cut-scene fires up and you sit back for up to 9 minutes and smoke whilst watching (admittedly excellent) FMV plot exposition.
Well worth getting, but I'm still preferring Operation Flashpoint. It's more immersive and tense and no movie-style FMV to yank you out of sneaking around.
MGS2 - It's alright actually, I'm surprised because I kept my expectations low on purpose.
"If it's as good as the 1st one I'll be happy" was my mantra and it's easily as good as that.
Looks like a LOT to do, collecting dog tags etc from the soldiers and I've learned how to hold them up and make them wiggle.
My major gripe is the total lack of VR training, like the 1st one. If you're new to this franchise, you're going to struggle at first.
I loved being a hardcore Tron-type assasin in computer land.
Ah well, back to trying to shoot a fat bloke on roller-skates.
MGS2: Actually rather good.
Plus Points:
Graphics are cool, and the tanker level is great fun.
Good fun stuffing people in lockers.
Shooting seagulls
Slipping on bird poo
Animations on the guards etc are phenomenal
There's a Vampire who kills people a lot.
Bad Points:
Too many cut-scenes, slows the gameplay down immensely. Although when playing through again, you could skip them.
No VR Training
I started as Snake on the Tanker, then tried a different setting to see if I got the VR Training and found myself as Raiden, missing the tanker level out completely.
Raiden looks like Charlotte Church.
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It's definately one of the best PS2 games out there, but for me this isn't the best game ever made.
It's a lot of fun doing things like shooting plates and stuff, but then another cut-scene fires up and you sit back for up to 9 minutes and smoke whilst watching (admittedly excellent) FMV plot exposition.
Well worth getting, but I'm still preferring Operation Flashpoint. It's more immersive and tense and no movie-style FMV to yank you out of sneaking around.
MGS2 - It's alright actually, I'm surprised because I kept my expectations low on purpose.
"If it's as good as the 1st one I'll be happy" was my mantra and it's easily as good as that.
Looks like a LOT to do, collecting dog tags etc from the soldiers and I've learned how to hold them up and make them wiggle.
My major gripe is the total lack of VR training, like the 1st one. If you're new to this franchise, you're going to struggle at first.
I loved being a hardcore Tron-type assasin in computer land.
Ah well, back to trying to shoot a fat bloke on roller-skates.
MGS2: Actually rather good.
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"Alone in The Woods"
That the one?
Easy Peasy.
When you start, head E-NE to the town just outside the woods you start in. Keep moving on the outskirts of the town in a NE direction until you can see a car just a few yards away.
Jump in car.
Head E along the road and go waaaay down the road to the new extraction point once everyone else has bugged out.
This way you avoid all but one or two soldiers in the first town.
And you get to the extraction point in about 5 minutes.
That's why I love Flashpoint, because you dont have to follow the suggested path, you can improvise any way you see fit.
So after a week of crawling and being careful, I just thought "Fun this" and stole a car.
Voila! Didnt get shot at once
That the one?
Easy Peasy.
When you start, head E-NE to the town just outside the woods you start in. Keep moving on the outskirts of the town in a NE direction until you can see a car just a few yards away.
Jump in car.
Head E along the road and go waaaay down the road to the new extraction point once everyone else has bugged out.
This way you avoid all but one or two soldiers in the first town.
And you get to the extraction point in about 5 minutes.
That's why I love Flashpoint, because you dont have to follow the suggested path, you can improvise any way you see fit.
So after a week of crawling and being careful, I just thought "Fun this" and stole a car.
Voila! Didnt get shot at once
Flashpoint can be a bit TOO tense for me at times. I'm stuck badly on the "you're all on your own, your ride out of their lies the otherside of the entire funning army" level... one shot and you're dead sort of thing, and I can do little more than take 30 minutes crawling to cross the damn field, only to get shot once as I find that the helicopter is under attack, and as the rest of my army can't defend themselves, I have to start again. 30 minutes wasted.
That's why I don't like it.
That's why I don't like it.
MGS2 - Not the best. 8/10
Yeah.. Goatboy, watch out for my name on a doggy tag.
Joby Stephens
Poland
Blood type -AB
Kill me nicely :)
Yeah.. Goatboy, watch out for my name on a doggy tag.
Joby Stephens
Poland
Blood type -AB
Kill me nicely :)
It's a good game.
Plus Points:
Graphics are cool, and the tanker level is great fun.
Good fun stuffing people in lockers.
Shooting seagulls
Slipping on bird poo
Animations on the guards etc are phenomenal
There's a Vampire who kills people a lot.
Bad Points:
Too many cut-scenes, slows the gameplay down immensely. Although when playing through again, you could skip them.
No VR Training
I started as Snake on the Tanker, then tried a different setting to see if I got the VR Training and found myself as Raiden, missing the tanker level out completely.
Raiden looks like Charlotte Church.
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It's definately one of the best PS2 games out there, but for me this isn't the best game ever made.
It's a lot of fun doing things like shooting plates and stuff, but then another cut-scene fires up and you sit back for up to 9 minutes and smoke whilst watching (admittedly excellent) FMV plot exposition.
Well worth getting, but I'm still preferring Operation Flashpoint. It's more immersive and tense and no movie-style FMV to yank you out of sneaking around.
MGS2 - It's alright actually, I'm surprised because I kept my expectations low on purpose.
"If it's as good as the 1st one I'll be happy" was my mantra and it's easily as good as that.
Looks like a LOT to do, collecting dog tags etc from the soldiers and I've learned how to hold them up and make them wiggle.
My major gripe is the total lack of VR training, like the 1st one. If you're new to this franchise, you're going to struggle at first.
I loved being a hardcore Tron-type assasin in computer land.
Ah well, back to trying to shoot a fat bloke on roller-skates.
MGS2: Actually rather good.
Plus Points:
Graphics are cool, and the tanker level is great fun.
Good fun stuffing people in lockers.
Shooting seagulls
Slipping on bird poo
Animations on the guards etc are phenomenal
There's a Vampire who kills people a lot.
Bad Points:
Too many cut-scenes, slows the gameplay down immensely. Although when playing through again, you could skip them.
No VR Training
I started as Snake on the Tanker, then tried a different setting to see if I got the VR Training and found myself as Raiden, missing the tanker level out completely.
Raiden looks like Charlotte Church.
----
It's definately one of the best PS2 games out there, but for me this isn't the best game ever made.
It's a lot of fun doing things like shooting plates and stuff, but then another cut-scene fires up and you sit back for up to 9 minutes and smoke whilst watching (admittedly excellent) FMV plot exposition.
Well worth getting, but I'm still preferring Operation Flashpoint. It's more immersive and tense and no movie-style FMV to yank you out of sneaking around.
MGS2 - It's alright actually, I'm surprised because I kept my expectations low on purpose.
"If it's as good as the 1st one I'll be happy" was my mantra and it's easily as good as that.
Looks like a LOT to do, collecting dog tags etc from the soldiers and I've learned how to hold them up and make them wiggle.
My major gripe is the total lack of VR training, like the 1st one. If you're new to this franchise, you're going to struggle at first.
I loved being a hardcore Tron-type assasin in computer land.
Ah well, back to trying to shoot a fat bloke on roller-skates.
MGS2: Actually rather good.
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