IGN gives MGS4 10/10

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disolitude said:

Dallinor said:

disolitude said:
Yeah...this sounds like a review from someone who is a huge MGS fanboy at IGN. No offence at MGS4 but I've played 4 hours of it now and while its really great, its not a 10. Its a very glossy, well produced and well written 9.1 :)

Story, Visuals, Audio are all 10's...but gameplay is king...and there are still issues galore with controls and camera.

Also, I am worried that sneaking around is no longer the key aspect to this series... as I'm plowing through everything with machine guns. And if the combat is the main gameplay component...I must say that thus far, it is a second rate Gears/Resident Evil 4 hybrid that doesn't work nearly as well as either.

So I'd give gameplay 8 thus far...

That's the beauty of the game. As mentioned in the GT review "there are many ways to play it [MGS4]".

You can sneak by opponents completely, fight a few then hide and wait for them the forget about you, or simple blaze your way through with a machine gun.

I havent found the controls or camera an issue at all. I actually found the controls for GTA entailed a bigger learning curve then MGS4.

I'm about 5 hours in so far, and loving it.

9.7/10 from me.

Why would you hide if you don't have to? It started off good...lmited ammo and giant robots you cant kill. But then you get so much ammo and that eye thing...it became a slaughter fest after that.

Also, there is nothing wrong with controls but they are clunky for aiming especially until you get the sniper. and camera goes close-far-close far sometimes...especially when you've been spotted and want to see where the dudes are that spotted you.

All in all seems like they upped the visuals and sound by quite a lot but kept the story telling and action the same.

Also, running around in the warzone seems cool at first with shit exploding left and right and bullets flying all over...but the moment i realized those cant hit me and are jsut background FX, i wanted them to stop. That just distracts me from the real action...

Hope no one thinks im dogging this game...i love it...but its not a 10.

 Why would he hide?

That is the beauty of it. You can. You have the choice.

I also can't believe you just tried to compare it to Gears of War...not just that, but Gears has laggy as all hell Online play and the single player campaign is 8 hours at best compared to 20+. Second rate? Yeah Gears was good, but I guess to each his own.