If this turns out biased, it's because I can't help it
I would actually rate this game 4.7 but since they won't let me, I rate it as a 5.
Anywho, onto reviewing. This game. Wow. Hideo Kojima is a genius. With the element of a jungle survival theme, this game actually feels like a whole another game from Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2. The amount of new stuff you can do is just fantastically awesome. And every single detail affects another detail. A couple examples of this include: (1)how hungry you get affects your aim, your speed, and your health regeneration rate, so you should hunt and eat when you need to (2)the more you run or do strenuous activities like rolling or stalking, the faster your stamina (or hunger level) goes down (3) the heavier stuff you carry in your backpack, the hungrier you get (4) etc. etc.
Kojima has thought of pretty much everything you can think of. When you play Metal Gear Solid 3, it really feels like you have suddenly transformed into Snake. As Snake, you have to feed yourself, you have to cure yourself or eat medicine if you get sick, you have to dress yourself (into different camo suitable for different environments) you have to pack your stuff and you have to move yourself carefully in the jungle and in the heavily guarded infrastructures. All these new features have made this Metal Gear Solid game the most revolutionary and the most interesting of the entire series.
The story is not of Solid Snake anymore but his genetic father Big Boss and it's rather intriguing. Even though we already know what happens in the end, Kojima still has us second guessing and going "ohhh" as he tells the story of how Snake turned out to be Big Boss and jabs at the possibility that maybe Big Boss's agenda was good-intentioned while Solid Snake's was just that of a pawn's, being simply used and abused by those in power. The plot is a lot simpler, due to the criticisms of the crazy Sons of LIberty plot but it's still powerful and moving and there're still a lot of cutscenes, esp. in the beginning of the game. However, it is moving and it's really worth it to let your hands relax and enjoy the cinametic cutscenes.
While on the subject of watching the game, the graphic are mind blowing. No detail is missing. The grass moves and is cut into pieces when bullets fly into it, Snake gets bloodier the more he gets hit, animals move like they're real, water seems almost actually tangible...
Also, the enemy A.I. is incredible. Just seeing how smart they are often makes me enjoy being caught. They seriously are soo smart. They will use grenades to flush you out, they will have different team members move toward you while another group stays back to provide covering fire while another is using cover to slowly gain up on you... It's insane.
MGS3 also fixed many flaws of MGS2, especially the grenade explosion radius. Yes, the stun grenade is useful now, thank God.
The only really bad thing about MGS3 is the camera angle at times, but me, often I was so into the game that I hardly even noticed. Of course, Subsitence fixes this. Some elements are very unrealistic (Snake can change into different suit in the middle of a battle) but it adds to the fun of the game.
I also love CQC and the fact that you can use your dpad to stalk. It really tests your button pressing skills and is a lot more than simply having an "interact" button (like in Splinter Cell though SC is really good game as well). The holdup interaction has immensely improved and every old MGS element is finetuned. An amazing game!!!!Read full review
