Anyone new to the Metal gear stories (people like me) will be delightfully pleased with the presentation and depth in story this Digital comic novel has to offer. If you already have been a fan of this series you'll enjoy it anyway. The style, of the story telling and and brief animations, much to my amazement actually worked for my overall impression of the novel.
Features
The one feature that will take you further into the world of Metal Gear is something known as Memory Building. Throughout the game, you will "gather" pictures of the characters in the comic such as Gray Fox, Ocelot, Otacon (cool name just found out it was short for Otaku Convention), Colonel Campbell, and Meryl to name a few. When you collect these memory building pictures it attaches a history profile or a brief description of the character.
Another feature they have is a Zoom in and out feature, and although it doesn't sound too exciting looking at the pictures up close you'll find a secret watermark on some of the pictures if you look closer (i won't reveal it for you to find out)
Replayabilty
This may not be a game, but it's always nice to go back into something you looked at once and find out there was something you missed. There is 271 pages worth of art and dialogue story telling and I don't know how often you would replay a game to see what you missed, but you are more likely to go back to something you saw or read.
Conclusion
Like I said in the summary if you are not a fan of the series yet, this might be a story you will want to look into. Especially, with a loose end at the end of the novel. Deception and lies is a main part of the story and the end of the novel kind of jumps at you and makes you want to know what happened next.
I honestly have no qualms about this novel and there are no rave reviews for this game and there is not alot to rave on about reading dialogue bubbles. But if your looking for something to read for the summer (well at least something to keep you busy on vacation or travel) and you really don't wanna move your fingers around much on the PSP, you might want to give this a look. For what it's worth, if you like reading comics and enjoy a good story this is a must-buy and have.
I gave this a 90 for awesome animations and audio-visual presentation. Story was short and I wished there was more to it.
Looks Awsome, I'm Not A Fan Of The Series So I'll Be Getting This One Cause In The Summary It Says If your not a fan of the series yet, you'll get sucked in So I'll Buy This One
This Is A Good Start For Me Cause I Don't Know Any Thing About The Story
yoyo_pete said: "It's just neat to see a different approach to entertainment on the PSP. This could be a whole new medium."
exactly... music and movies have been taken care of by other devices for a while now... logically thinking... what do lots of gamers like that just aren't portable... comic books! and their big brothers, graphic novels
yah, i just HATE lugging around those big, bulky, 5 gram stacks of paper. Its so much more convenaint now that i can pay 10 bucks instead of 2, carry around a expensive, delicate PSP, and look like an idiot all the while! Huzzah!
Bought it...and I must say " BRILLIANT, Hideo! BRILLIANT!"
And it only costs a couple of dollars more than a regular graphic novel. Marvel and DC (Warner Bros.) should be all over this. It would be cooler to have a graphic novel to coincide with a comic based movie like X-MenIII than the suck-ass game they have now.
Now if Mr. Kojima only came up with a story I have not played out fifty-eleven times over the past 10 years. The interface for the Memory Map sucks too btw. Other than that..."BRILLIANT!"
I might pick it up if the price is right.....but otherwise I think i'll save to buy actual games.
But nice review though, it sounds far more interesting than it looks.
Harry said: "yah, i just HATE lugging around those big, bulky, 5 gram stacks of paper. Its so much more convenaint now that i can pay 10 bucks instead of 2, carry around a expensive, delicate PSP, and look like an idiot all the while! Huzzah!"
for clarification, i meant you could carry around an entire collection of comic books/graphic novels on one UMD, if someone would release them. if you still don't get it, perhaps an analogy would help you: while carrying one CD around isn't bad, carrying an entire CD collection is somewhat impractical, but you can put all of your music on an iPod or other portable music player. Huzzah indeed!
dude you have made a ton of stupid posts recently, but this one is especially obvious... you already called it "dum" and now you don't know what it is?? wtf?
no, it's not a movie, it's a digital (i hope you know what that means) graphic (it has pictures) novel (like a book... you know, the thing with pages).
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