Lengthy Metal Gear Online gameplay footage just for you

by Nick Doerr { Jan 28th 2008 at 4:00PM }

Stealth action with the Metal Gear name tacked on, but no Snake? Yeah, it sounds crazy, but sometimes after following the epic tale of one hero, you want to carve out your own name and take yourself on a new adventure with all new faces. Metal Gear Online appears to let you do just that, as this long gameplay video shows off. This is, of course, assuming you can make anything out in the video. Perhaps our laptop refuses to let us view large doses of win, or the resolution on the video is crap. You decide!

Tags: konami, metal-gear-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DMeisterJ @ Jan 28th 2008 4:11PM

My god! The resolution on that sucks. You can hardly make anything out. But I do hope that this online portion is good. I had so much fun with the Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops online.

Trev @ Jan 28th 2008 4:16PM

The video does seem to be made of ass and fail, but the subject the video covers seems to be some new, highly-concentrated form of Win never before viewed online. The improved shooting controls for MGS4 really look like they're going to enable really intense firefights to go along with the rest of the action.

I wasn't so sold on MGO before, but it's way up near the top of my list now.

kentuckyfried @ Jan 28th 2008 8:00PM

I saw this several weeks ago. Unviewable.

But yeah...I hope MGS Online not only remedies some of the shortcomings of online pack that we saw in MGS: Subsistence (awkward controls, too much to handle and still be responsive for most players), but also addresses shortcomings of multiplayer FPS shooters in general. From the earlier trailers, it seems like it'll be alot easier to figure coordinate movements with other team members as well as help other fallen comrades.

Also, I hope it's free in terms of online access (as it was with the original).

choirovwolves @ Jan 28th 2008 9:13PM

MGS4's control scheme had to be 'dumbed down' and made more accessible for westerners. I personally have no qualms with controls in any MGS games; in fact, once I became familiar with all of its intricacies, I wouldn't have it any other way! Perhaps I am in the minority here, but the series is by no means 'unplayable.' (People who say so are merely nitpicking and grasping for straws.)

JKPierce @ Jan 28th 2008 10:52PM

I don't understand it, myself. If one can't be bothered to learn the nuances of a deep combative system, why does one get so vocal about it? It's willful display of complete ignorance, if not arrogance.

The third one was the most intricate, but still gave the players freedom to dumb it down as much as they wanted. The fourth looks to do the same; is there actual fault in that? How do you dress yourself in the morning?