[PS3] MGS4, Kojima... what happened?
So they finally showed
MGS4 gameplay footage and it just left me wondering what happened to Kojima?
Snake Eater just looked great, and MGS1 basically defined a genre - and a system.
What I'm seeing in MGS4 makes me not even care about it anymore. I've hoped it would come to 360 because I was really interested in it, and didn't want to buy a PS3 for it. Now I'm thinking, who really wants this?
It looked and felt clunky, like a PS1/PS2 game that get some updated graphics. It doesn't look smooth or have the gameplay polish of it's nearest competitor - Splinter Cell.
Look at that camo suit, what the heck... it can copy a texture and put it on Snake? Nice... look at him laying on that floor with a floor texture on his body -
he is so ridiculously visible. Same for when he is up against a wall.
And look at him with that RPG, standing out there in the middle of gun fire, taking his time to aim at the guy on the top of the building. Nice.
"We can now hide in a barrel" - wow, nice feature.
"If you roll around he throws up" - umm, okay... great.
"You can look at a men's magazine to help your health!" - amazing, Snake is in the middle of a battlefield and after rolling around in a barrel and getting sick, he'll take a break to look at some ladies in a magazine... you know... spread it out on the war-torn ground and goggle at the girlies. Revolutionary, man... Kojima obviously needs a new franchise - maybe a new career.
Seriously, this game went from
"incredible" to
"incredibly dumb" in about 5-10 minutes.
I wonder how well this will really sell when more people see more of it...
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