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Metal Gear Survive
In a struggle to stay alive on this harsh terrain filled with deadly creatures, soldiers who were previously on Motherbase now must work cooperatively in order to survive.
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While it's a slow build and even by the end of the game some elements still annoyed me, I honestly had more fun with Metal Gear Survive than I would have ever expected and I'd like to see the game's formulas built upon.
No, it is not a good Metal Gear game. Yes it is somewhat difficult to love thanks to a laborious and shonky opening act. Yet Metal Gear Survive is a good survival game underneath the grime of its controversial existence. Whether people will give it the chance to show that is a whole other issue.
Metal Gear Survive is a co-op stealth game that takes a divergent look at familiar Metal Gear themes and pursues a fresh spirit of exploration in gameplay mechanics.
You better have to choose if it’s worth spending your spare cash, because it might not be the game for you and it might be for others.
Look beyond the title, a tenuous link to Hideo Kojima’s universe, and the fact it uses Konami’s wonderful looking FOX Engine, and Survive might as well be called “Survival Game #637”. But if it was, would you even be bothering to read this?
All of the issues that I’ve outlined with Metal Gear Survive essentially boil down to one thing: the vast majority of the game feels boring. It takes quite a long time for certain aspects of the game to stop feeling tedious, and its very easy to feel discouraged from playing altogether as it takes so long for the game to feel like its actually going somewhere. If you can be bothered to sit through hours of hunting, completing repetitive missions and accumulating skill points at a painfully ...
Most of you have probably already made up your mind about Metal Gear Survive. I think Survive has some redeeming qualities and, had it focused firmly on its multiplayer, I may have enjoyed the experience more. As it stands, there are just so many better titles in the survival genre, it's hard to recommend this game to anybody. I'm sad to say that Metal Gear Survive has squeezed any ounce of hope I had for this series I only recently got into.
Metal Gear Survive had the potential to grow into something unique but now it’s just an uninspired mish-mash of poorly balanced systems that translates to an experience that feels like a chore. The story is frustrating, the only aspects that are great are the ones carried over from Metal Gear Solid 5 and the overall gameplay loop is monotonous. Metal Gear Survive ironically won’t survive the test of time, though in several years’ time you’ll probably not be able to play it anyway.
So, as this rather short paragraph on the story might let you comprehend, Metal Gear Survive is a decent effort as far as you realize what it actually is and don’t expect it to be a story-based entry in the series you loved and a game with its roots grounded in multiplayer. While the first part has never been meant to become a reality, the second is to a good extent what Konami longs for and will possibly be in the months to come. Today, it lacks ambition but does an acceptable job into rew...
Metal Gear Survive is a unique entry to the series, it is not untrue to the series on many levels. Metal Gear Survive is a difficult and unforgiving game. Metal Gear Survive requires a lot of time, effort and patience to get the most out of it. It was touted as a Metal Gear zombie game, yet it really isn’t. So what is it then? Well, to be honest it is all in the name. It is a no frills survival game and trust me, you will have to play hard to survive. You will spend many hours gathering wat...
Metal Gear Survive is the game I want it to be about... 10% of the time. When there’s a rare section where stealth is the best approach. When I just manage to defeat the final wave on a protection mission, thanks to strategic placement of defences. When I’m thinking my way out of a tense situation, moments away from being overwhelmed - by zombies, rather than starvation or suffocation.