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Guitarguy on 07 October 2014
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foxtail said:

Guitarguy said:

Twin Snakes sucked. Graphically it was nice but the new voice acting was worse, the cinematic scenes was far too over the top and the incorporated moves(hanging off rails, first person aiming mode, being able to shoot from cover etc) from MGS2 made the game far less of a challenge and diluted the experience. 

I think the game gets too much hate for it's voice acting and cutscenes, though I agree with your other faults.

For the voice acting they did get all of the original voice actors to come back, Hayter even taking a pay cut to budget in their return.  And while some didn't like the changes they made with characters (like Mei Ling missing her heavy accent) they did use the same interpretation of Mei Ling's voice from Twin Snakes again for MGS4 (since she was born in America).

As for the cutscenes, some people like to think of Twin Snakes as a retelling of the events of MGS through the eyes of Otacon.  The exaggeration being part of his enthusiasm and admiration of Snake.  Overall you have to think of the Twin Snakes as a different entity than the original because it wasn't meant to be a carbon copy graphical upgrade of MGS.  Plus Kojima wanted it to be different, that's the reason he chose Kitamura to do the cinematics in the first place.


Fair call, the voice acting is a minor gripe of mine. I think all the original cast came back except for the individual who voiced Gray Fox, either it was a different actor altogether or the performance lacked the passion and hurt. Mei Ling's original accent was missed also. Those things are secondary to actual gameplay however and I do feel that by incorporating MGS2's control and gameplay mechanics into the game, without increasing the amount of soldiers, AI and difficulty, made the game so much less rewarding.