New hands-on with Metal Gear Solid 4 (page 2 of 4)
- April 02, 2008 19:23 PM PST
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Snake can modify any gun to equip a wide variety of laser sights, scopes, grenade launchers, and much more.
Taming Snake
Metal Gear Solid 4 is much easier to control than its predecessors. If you like Gears of War and Halo 3, you'll find plenty to love here!
Controller Legend
Square: Activate auto-aim
Circle: Reload weapon
X: Crouch; hold to crawl
Triangle: Wall press; aim down sights (while aiming)
L1: Aim weapon (over-the-shoulder view)
L2: Hold to select items
R1: Fire weapon; CQC attacks
R2: Hold to select weapons
Left Stick: Move Snake; press gently to creep
Right Stick: Move camera, aim weapon
Pit Viper
Perhaps the greatest joy of playing Metal Gear Solid 4 lies in its simple, intuitive control scheme. Snake may be getting older, but his abilities haven't diminished one bit. You may know about his Octo-cam suit, which allows him to automatically blend in with surrounding walls and floors. More impressive is his suite of new ground-based stealth abilities. "The inchworm" allows Snake to slowly creep past hotspots while playing dead, and is activated by gently nudging the analog stick while Snake lies prone. Snake can also aim and fire guns while lying down, or roll over to assume a back-down position -- handy for tossing grenades over-the-shoulder at unwitting enemies -- with a quick tap of the Triangle button. It's impressive to see such a wide range of abilities represented through such simple controller inputs -- the learning curve here is very gentle.
"Impressive, Snake"
Playing a nearly complete build of Metal Gear Solid 4 running on the PlayStation 3 was a revelatory experience. The graphics looked sensational, the sound effects and music sounded magnificently epic, and the interface felt sleek and simple. In short, it's becoming increasingly clear that Metal Gear Solid 4 will be the rare game to live up to its own massive hype. We feel confident that MGS4 is the game PlayStation 3 owners (and Metal Gear fans) have been waiting years to play. Visit OMGMetalGear.com for late-breaking updates on MGS4, and check back next month for more of what is quickly shaping up to be a top game for 2008. We couldn't be more excited!
Tried and true, Snake can still lean from cover. Take note of the close-quarters combat (CQC) gun and knife stance from Metal Gear Solid 3.
PMC vehicles will inflict heavy casulties on the militias, if you don't lend a hand. Note Snake hiding on the right side of the image.
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- May 06 2008 at 10:51:25:AM PST
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Hey ViciousSid, I love MGS1 and MGS3 alot (MGS2 was okay) and the latest trailer hints at playing a bit of MGS1 (or something) in the snowy Shadow Moses. I'm an extremely ultimate fan of MGS3 (Subsist. because of camera) because I'm personally attracted to the beauty of the forest. It was the one game in the series that I actually sat back, relaxed, and enjoyed the scenery while moving through the jungle, even while CQC-ing the enemies. I know you can't really reveal anything but for the past year I've been suffering and giving up hope of Kojima-san implementing at least one small forest/jungle stage. Can you at least say something...anything that can indicate something of a forest stage. Octocamo would rock with it. I know it may not have the survival hunting (or would it?) but Kojima-san spoke of "sense" and gave the analogy of the "tree". Even if MGS4 went only with urban/near-urban environments it won't bother me that much because it is a Metal Gear. It will always be a great game. I just don't wanna go playing the game worrying when a jungle will pop up from South America and then nearing the finish to realise that there will be no jungle. I need some info on that so that I can play expecting or not expecting a jungle to help ease that disappointment. If ViciousSid won't say anything, does anybody know anything about such a lush green environment with rivers etc? By the way, I recommend that those of you who haven't played MGS1 and MGS2 and MGS3 yet to do so before playing MGS4. Reading a story summary is not enough. MGS4 was made for the fans who stayed with the series. Don't say I didn't warn you when you start complaining of the hours and hours of confusing story and plot twists. (Damn!, hope I get that job tomorrow for my PS3/MGS4 80GB bundle. The date is too close...)
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By the way, "Emmerson" was used in MGS3 by Granin because he forgot Emmerich's name. ......."Emmerson....Heinrich.....". I thought Sid wrote it on purpose.
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I know Payton said that we can revert to MGS3 Subsistence's controls...which I prefer to the default MGS4 control scheme......but the forums are confusing me. Can I really change the controls (Street Fighter style) or go back to MGS3's control? And, can I play MGO using MGS3's control scheme, including the O button as the Select button and X as the Go Back button?
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Give me give me give....I wanna play it NOW!!!!!!!! I been hiding in cardboard boxes, steel drums, getting in my practice, LOL
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Buying this with my PS3 Day one. At least ima person that wants this BECAUSE I've beaten every Metal Gear an want to know what's gonna happen to Snake NOT Because it's a PS3 Exclusive like most of you fanboys. Though im curious, this just doesn't look like a stealth game that much anymore.
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this is gonna be awesome and dont anyone think im a fat fanboy , i didnt play any other MGS games of my entire life... phoque U...
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