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| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater | 
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| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  178 reviews
Sales Rank: 785
Platform: Playstation2
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 4012927026106
EAN: 4012927026106
Release Date: March 4, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: light marks to disc plays fine - Will dispatch in 2 working days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Flipping amazing August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned this game plus the first two for a few years now, and with the excitement of the 4th game finally hitting the shelves, I decided to dig this one out again and remind myself why this game was so good. Yet again I was blown away by the sheer quality of the game, in every sense!
Every now and again there comes a game that posseses an aspect of perfection in a certain area of production, be it graphics, gameplay, storyline etc. But rarely do we see a game with all of these qualities nearing perfection. Metal gear solid 3 does just that.
When I play metal gear solid 3, I find myself comparing it to the original. While the second one ventured into the realms of mind boggling plot twists that didn't make much sense, and an alternative character development that annoyed quite a large audience, the deveopers have decided to make a game that follows an almost identical style to the first, probably because of its undeniable supereriority to the second. The game follows the lead character of 'Snake' or 'Big Boss' as he is known in the first game, as he is sent into soviet territory to rescue a russian scientist and destroy metal gear etc etc. A similar story to the first, but a little bit simpler and a bit more involving. The storyline centres vaguely around the political situation between Russia , America and a rogue army of russian solidiers lead by a Corlnel Vulgin who's personal agender involves the mass production of this games metal gear, and access to a 30 billion dollar global peace fund. So although the story isn't quite as complex as the first and second, it keeps it simple enough to follow and to grip you. The cut scenes are many, making this game more of a movie than a game. But this also gives the feeling of a fast flowing game like the first, without the long boring bits you often found in the second that made you want to tear your hair out. The action scenes are fantastic, integrating a large amount of martial art scenes throughout, which often involve snake being beaten up, which can be very sad.
The graphics are astounding. Occassionally I just look for ages at the trees and the scenery which just gets better as the game goes on. Three years on I still haven't seen a PS2 game begin to compete with these graphics.
Extra features have been added since the second, such as having to eat food, heal your body and throwing poisonous snakes at bad guys! There are also a lot more guns and ways to sneak up and kill people.
There are bad points to the game though. Unlike the first, the character development is shabby. In the first game, each boss was integrated deeply into the storyline. In this game however, you're first introduced basically when you fight and kill them. The main letdown is that each boss has a completely bizzare skill, such as turning into bee's, or becoming an invisible spider creature. None of this is explained and it takes away the realness of the game somewhat. The main bad guy apparently has a million vaults of electricity running through his body. Why? How? Its just not explained. The game is also very easy. There is an abundance of food potential everywhere you go, so you're never low on stamina. Plus it takes about 100 bullets to eventally kill you. Life medicine is rare though, but generally you won't need it. The caution clock has also gone up in this game considerably. When you're spotted you'll quite often have to wait a good 5 minutes before the timer reaches zero again. Granted though, its a good time to go and make a cup of tea.
So all in all we have one of the best games in history here. It has all the originality and atmosphere of the first, with the graphics and gameplay of the second, the perfect combination! Fantastic production, classic voice acting, brilliant soundtrack. It just doesn't get better than this.
The world of computer gaming just wouldn't be complete without our favourite hero, snake!
 Not bad,but could have been much better. July 16, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved the PS1 Metal Gear Solid.It was exciting,and really enjoyed the story.Here,I thought the story was dreadful in certain areas.Of course,the game play is brilliant,and the action fantastic.However,the writer spoilt it by putting in a devious female character,who attempted to outshine the main hero.Sorry,but that wasn't to my liking.Not even the Boss,who Snake has to fight at the end.Still,its an enjoyable game,but it remains to be seen,if the next story is any better.Of course,that's just my humble opinion!Anybody who doesn't agree with me is entitled to their opinion,but I'm entitled to mine!
 A little too clever for its own Good. June 26, 2008
This game has some of the hardest boss battles in any game. "The End" for example can sometimes take an eternity to kill. Then theres the awful camera mixed with the lack of a soliton radar system and its a recipe for disaster - what happens is you cant see the enemy in anyway shape or form so you end up running into them and alert after alert :( I loved Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 and managed to get through both on all levels of difficulty...I struggled to get through snake eater on Normal mode.
I think the trouble here is the addition of too many new features all at once, instead of just revamping and modernising the gameplay mechanics.
However to draw a line under it all and say this is a bad game would be incorrect, the storyline and cinematics are second to none as is the voice acting.
 good but somewhat dissapointing June 16, 2008
i am a great fan of the series. and was thrilled when i got the metal gear solid 3 demo. but after playing it a few minutes without any radar and a camera angle that dosent allow you to see ahead. it did get very frustrating
especialy as i consider myself to be fairly good at the series.so i decided not to buy the game. but as metal gear solid 4 came out recently which i am intrested in. i decided to buy metal gear solid 3. i got the origional not subsistence because it is about twice as much as the origional mgs3. so anyway even though the whole overhead camera with no radar is hard. once i got used to it. the game did start to pick up. its good but my only real criticism is that i prefer not to use weapons unless i absoloutely have to. but this game makes that very hard. and you just dont get that satisfaction from going round and shooting everyone. as you do from just having sneaked past a whole load of people completely undetected.
the graphics are realy top notch though. even though i have a ps3 this game looks nearly as good as some ps3 games. it offers surround sound. but dissapointingly not widescreen which i was realy hoping it would have
good but not as good as the first two.
not as good as MGS1 or 2, but less convoluted in terms of plot than MGS2 January 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those of you who have played MGS2, you will know how convoluted the plot became towards the end. In MGS3, there isn't so many plot twists and over the top-phiosophical banter (although I never had a clue what The Boss was going on about at the end :/), but rather the story is more straight forward and ironed out.
In MGS3, you play Naked Snake, Snake's father in the Siberian Jungle circa. 1960s. One of the most unconventional features of this game is that you have to kill and catch your own food in the jungle to keep stamina up- one of the Boss fights is based around keeping stamina up to avoid loosing.
Dissapointing though, I really wanted an immediate continuation of MGS2.
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