Lol @ishiki, diorreah boy, hahaha. to be honest i actully liked Akiba, he was pretty cool towards the end, and it made sense that he had digestive distress.
i havent played it in a while, but i can remember being bored out of my skull listening to rubbish Octacon and Snake would say, that you would forget by the time they reintroduced new points, or reiterated the same points using different words.
as for the gameplay, i can remember it being okay. i thought MGS1 and 2 were more fun from a gameplay perspective because the stealth was much more relaxed and much more fun. MGS3, while it had a great story, i got a bit bored of crawlling on the ground, then activating a sensor then scouting out the area, etc. it was okay some of the time, but it got boring, no one wants to crawl around for hours on end. well at least i dont think they do.
to answer the underlying question in the OP, it has MGS on the box and it was an exclusive. take that away and you have something like Zone of the Enders, some good gameplay elements but the same undelying problems.
