| starcraft said: Haven't played MGS, but I dislike Splinter Cell. |
As much as they get compared MGS and SC are very different games so just because you dislike SC doesn't mean you won't like MGS. SC seems more realistic in the stealth department where you actually stick to the shadows and once the alarms go off the guards start roaming in packs and put on helmets and riot gear if enough alarms go off and keep hunting you for quite a bit. MGS is a little more forgiving where you just need to lay low for a bit like 30 seconds or so (just an estimate, it's been a while since I last played) and the alarm will go off. You just go hide in a closet or under a cardboard box you carry around. MGS also has a more gamelike atmosphere with your predictable boss fights and whatnot whereas SC keeps it to just killing random guys or aborting nuke launches so it seems more realistic and closer to a spy novel than a video game.
Basically ask yourself why you disliked SC? MGS is a great series so you should at least give it a try to see if you will like it. Since you said you are going after owning all 3 consoles I will assume you have a Wii. Track down MGS: Twin Snakes on GC as it's a remake of the original MGS. MGS2 was on Xbox but IIRC it's not BC with the 360 so you'd have to play it on a PS2 or Xbox original.
Keep in mind I didn't play SC: double agent all the way through and I never played MGS3 so any changes made in those more recent games won't have been reflected in my writeup above. 
