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Holy freaking Buddhazilla. Every time I think Kojima can't possibly top himself... he does. Game-play, interactivity, plot-lines - it just keeps better and better, the avalanche keeps picking up speed.

One of the main themes of MGS4 is the nightmare of private military companies like real-life Blackwater, which is now in hot water in Iraq - the Maliki government has called for Blackwater to leave Iraq immediately, after Blackwater ops shot up an Iraqi crowd, killing eleven innocent civilians. Beauty and the Beast, indeed. Videogames seem to be one of the places where artists can speak truth to the world, maybe because our mainstream press and politicians are so busy lying to us that they've ended up believing their own lies. A world of Patriots...