Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Review

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(More customer reviews)Let me start this review by saying METAL GEAR SOLID for PSX is my all-time favorite game ever.And before that was my favorate game of all time, SNATCHER for the Sega CD was (both written and directed by Hideo Kojima).After the huge let down that was Metal Gear Solid 2, I was looking forward to this remake that would feature the same great gameplay mechanics as MGS2 with the same great storyline of MGS.Did this game deliver?Yes.Well...sort of.While the game has much prettier graphics and gameplay, there are some things changed where they never should have messed with perfection:

1.) My first gripe is the decline in voice acting.Naomi, Mei Ling, and Natasha have all lost their ethnic accents which gave them personality in the original, so now they just seem stiff and boring.The voice acting overall is just not as good, and I didn't like the tweaks made to the script.

2.) The absence of the classic music that made scenes so exciting in favor of that weird techno crap from MGS2.

3.)While I do like some of the extended cutscenes, such as the first encounter with the ninja, others are just ridiculously over-the-top, and too matrix wannabie.

4.) While the game does sport the much improved gameplay of MGS2, the level layouts are exactly the same and were not designed with these play mechanics in mind, rendering them pretty much unnecessary to use, with the exception of the first person view mode... which, as another reviewer pointed out, deletes certain challenges from the game.

Overall, it just doesn't have the magic or the soul that the original does.If you never played the original game, none of the above will bother you, so I highly recommend you buy this.For those of you who have played the original, it's worth a rental to play through with the spiffy new graphics, cutscenes, etc.But I'd take original over this remake any day of the week.If you want to play a remake that surpasses its original, I recommend the Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube.

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In Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, superspy Solid Snake infiltrates the GameCube for one of the most games ever! Twin Snakes is a complete remake of the legendary Metal Gear Solid, with updated graphics for better, smoother gaming. Prepare to save the world, in the game that launched a classic series and started the spy gaming genre!

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