When Metal Gear Rising was first announced I was initially sceptical
of the concept. Then I replayed Metal
Gear Solid 4 and saw cyborg ninja Raiden in action again and my initial doubts
were replaced with excitement. I mean,
who wouldn’t want to play as Raiden now we’ve seen what he’ capable of? What wouldn’t be amazing about killing Metal
Gears with a samurai sword?
The first of the game footage came out and showed u that the
game would let you cut anything and everything you could imagine. The swordplay looked amazing and could
actually make you feel like you could actually experience the coolness of being
a cyborg ninja.
Then they released more footage and the game started to take
a slightly different turn. It suddenly
struck me that the game looked more like Devil May Cry or Darksiders than any
kind of Metal Gear game I had ever seen before.
My heart began to lowly sink and my excitement turned once again to scepticism
and doubt.
However, today was the day that the first demo for Rising was
released on Xbox Live. Downloading it as
quickly as I could and loaded it up.
Despite my misgivings I wanted to get a feel of the game, to see if my
doubts were justified or not.
I still don’t know what to make of the game though. It does feel a lot like Metal Gear Solid, but
down to small things like the inclusion of the Codec, getting to fight the
Gecko’s and certain sound effects. Other
than that the game just didn’t feel like a Metal Gear Solid game. Maybe I’m just so used to sneaking around and
avoiding enemies that the idea of fighting them intentionally just seems weird
to me.
Despite the major differences in game play to other titles
in the series I’m still holding out hope that the story will engaging enough to
capture my imagination. For me the best
parts of the Metal Gear Solid series has been the amazing stories and
characters that have been such a staple of the series. Hopefully Rising will continue to uphold
these traditions of story telling.
For now I’m still uncertain as to how the game will be
outside of a demo, and a lot of what my opinion will be will be based upon how
the story continues on from Metal Gear Solid 4 and how well it lives u to the
legacy of its predecessors. For now I’m
going to go into rising with some fears, but some hope as well.
Amy.
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