The Best Part(s) Of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Posted on Wednesday, February 20 @ 07:24:00 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Slicing and dicing. That's my favorite part of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Of course, I said a lot of bad stuff about the game in my review as well, but the important thing is that everyone seemed to have read the text.

And when they did, they hopefully found how happy I was to cut up my enemies and take their spines for fuel. Additionally, I've gotta say I love the thunder sound effect that rings out when you damage an enemy enough to chop. If that sounds worth it to you, play the game for yourself. I just don't think it lived up to the Metal Gear name and my lofty expectations in story, value, or polish.

At least I'll always have the Zandatsu....

Maybe we can think of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as a bad movie you go see anyway, like the new Diehard movie. C'mon, you know it's terrible, but you like pieces of it anyway, right? Raiden's adventure is certainly a guilty pleasure in itself. The story goes far beyond the kind of buffonery you'd normally see in a Hideo Kojima game, and even Kamiya's wicked sense of player interaction is in force.

All of this comes to a head in the "Zandatsu" moment. You've been furiously maneuvering and pounding combos into a boss, and finally the button prompt comes. Unfortunately, I felt like I had no drive to that point. Nothing compelled me along the ride like I wanted it to. Even a rudimentary task like collecting items proved unwieldy.

Again, my review is my opinion. There's a demo of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on your console of choice, so download it and see if you might want to buy a copy. Don't be disappointed if your opinion differs. Of course if it does, you should share it in the comments below.

Tags: Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Rising, platinum games, kojima productions, Konami, Just Watch

Comments

Zpyder
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 7:38 am
Hmm, the bad movie analogy is an interesting one, I pretty much felt the same playing Shadows of the damned. That's not the best game ever in technical terms, but boy did I enjoy it, a perfect "b-movie" game. Perfect for a weekend rental or a £5 bargain bin buy

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:21 am
I still need to play Shadow of the Damned. That and Dragon's Dogma are on my sale-price watch list.

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sg4real
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 8:36 am
I tried the demo.
Robots doing cow sounds? No thanks!

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moretokes
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:20 am
I saw a military documentary I saw videos they have robots like in Mgs legs, it's a documentary on drones and warfare

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moretokes
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:21 am
Thogh they didn't make cow sounds

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slothrock
Joined: Oct 2012

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
No cow sounds? I want my money back.

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WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 8:53 am
I liked the demo but to be honest, with no MGS4 on the 360 I don't give a **** about anything Raiden does because I have no investment in his story. I don't even know why he's a cyborg.

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elmoreoocyte
Joined: Apr 2012

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 8:59 am
I've been wondering when he turned cyborg. He didn't seem like he was on Sons of Liberty, but it's been a long time since I played that.

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TheBigRedPyramid
Joined: Dec 2012

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 10:05 pm
He was changed into a cyborg between MGS2 and 4. he was captured by the patriots and while trying to rescue Sunny. His transformation was originally what rising was supposed to be about until it was outsourced to platinum. Now its after mgs4

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TheBigRedPyramid
Joined: Dec 2012

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Also kojima wanted the story to be about Gray Fox

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elmoreoocyte
Joined: Apr 2012

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 8:59 am
That doesn't look very fun at all. Maybe as a PS2 game, but not in today's market. Though I admittedly speak only for me.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:22 am
It does feel like a game from a previous generation. I don't think you'll see too many of the 6-year development flops like you have with MGR and Aliens: Colonial Marines in the future.

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Hatecrew
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:01 am
You said it the best....The review was your opinion. But I think that what draws a lot of criticism here is that it has the "METAL GEAR" name. I mean people were arguing about this before the game came out when we saw the video for this game back in E3 a few years ago. I wrapped my mind around it and knew it was a spinoff since it has the name "RISING" instead of "SOLID". We expected something magical here since that's what we are used to from Kojima productions. I personally think that this game would have been better had Kojima team had been in charge of this game and not Platinum games. I'm not a happy camper knowing its a short came compared to the many hours that previous Metal Gear games have supplied me.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:23 am
The demo KojiPro originally showed had a lot more mood and atmosphere than what wound up in the final product. I wonder if we'll see anything of the work they did with Raiden in the next Metal Gear Solid games.

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shandog137
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:20 am
This follow up to a bad review reminds me of the alternate ME3 ending release...stick to your guns Danny boy...stick to your guns.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:23 am
I had this prepared before the reaction my review yesterday. Basically I still think the Zandatsu is incredibly cool and I wanted to show it off :P

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shandog137
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:43 am
Cool Cool. Read your review and will probably wait until it gets down to the $30 price point. It will probably be on sale by Memorial Day. Picked up Darksiders 2 and Borderlands 2 on president's day so fairly occupied. Gotta say I am liking Darksiders level 13 and just got to the Tree of Life...

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:56 am
I liked Darksiders 2 a lot! Lots of great borrowing from Zelda, but also some good storytelling and style original to the Darksiders storyline.

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Baseketcase
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 11:28 am
Platinum games certainly did add their "B" movie charm to the script, I personally love it. I can totally see how this upsets Metal Gear fans, especially with Hideo's attention to detail. All in all I think that Platinum games had a bit more control over this game than people were comfortable with, for some this may be a good thing. The thing that has me wondering is why Hideo green lit that story given his past tendencies.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 20th, 2013 at 12:20 pm
Who knows how much of the decision making was done by Konami as well. I'm sure at some point they just told the staff at KojiPro to stop bothering Platinum so the game could be finished and some of that publishing money could come back in sales.

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