Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Good Bye Metal Gear

So, I've sort of been on a binge the last year playing anything and everything Metal Gear, and this new year isn't really shaping up to be anything different.  With one exception.

This year I'll probably finish off most of the games in the Metal Gear series (most of these on their upteenth time through), and I was looking forward to the next installment in franchise.  I stress was.  I am no longer looking forward to Metal Gear Solid: Rising.  Because that game no longer exists.

What we have now is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a stupid title that touts an even stupider game.  Now devoid of any storyline even remotely connected to Metal Gear, Revengeance seem nothing more to me than a few of the Solid series' characters put to an episode of Dragon Ball Z.

The trailer was so awefully over the top, it even has Raiden facing off against what looks like a new version of Metal Gear Ray.  He grabs one of rays fins with his bare hands and tosses it into the air like a rag doll and jumps on like he's riding a surf board.

Over all, they took what looked like a really awesome addition to the MGS storyline, and turned it into nothing more than a mindless slash fest.  Kojima Productions even promised it has none of the stealth elements that MGS fans love.