Sure, there's a giant nuclear robot-load's worth of extra material in there, with five standalone side-missions, a bunch of unlockable characters, a truly ridiculous number of timeattack training stages and a few other bonuses such as extra dog tags to collect. But the central game remains fundamentally tl same - they haven't even put t much-vaunted skateboarding mode in.
To bring you up to speed. MGS2 is set two years after the events of Metal Gear Solid, in which our hero Solid Snake had to infiltrate a hostile installation to prevent his terrorist brother from using a giant nuke-finng robot called Metal Gear Rex. The plot soon spirals into a confounding web of conspiracies, shadow governments, mind control expenments. Unlike Splinter Cell, staying silent and in the shadows is not always imperative here.
It's much more about observing patrol patterns, finding novel ways to distract guards and employing your many gadgets. To put it another way. MGS2's stealth dynamic is essentially digital, where Splinter Cell's is more analogue. Patrol patterns are simple and repetitive, but knock on a wall and a guard will obediently come to investigate.
And then after a few dozen of these you get a full-action boss scenario, some of which are truly outstanding. Of course, the sheer fun of solving each little stealthy dilemma cannot be underestimated, especially if you can get through without resorting to brute force - or by using brute force in a particularly satisfying way see the boxout below. But apart from that, the game is quite simply very damn cool. The visual style is stunning, and the whole thing gleams with elegance of design, attention to detail and even a little humour.
Unfortunately, it does get bogged down in its own densely convoluted storyline, the core game famously containing almost as much narrative exposition as actual gameplay. MGS2 desperately wants to be an 'interactive movie', and while the previous game had similar aspirations but got the balance right, in this case the game definitely suffers.
While picking faults, there are one or two technical flaws to mention as well. While on the whole the graphics shine gloriously despite their console origins, we did have some worrying lighting problems with Radeon cards. On the upside, the rumble effects from the PS2 version are in place, and it's definitely worthwhile hunting down a rumbling gamepad for the occasion.
The slow-burning stealth action, while superbly crafted, is far too heavily interspersed with cut-scenes, and no amount of bonus missions, training puzzles or alternative outfits is going to remedy that. As a stealth-action game Substance has undoubtedly been eclipsed by Splinter Cell. The Metal Gear Solid games are just plain cool. There's no other word for it. The tense atmosphere, the cinematic style, the undercover mystique.
Plus of course they star the world's second favourite stealth operative, the royal badass Solid Snake. In fact you only got to play as the main man in one of the chapters, the rest of the time being forced to inhabit the girlish frame of one Raiden, a swordwielding, wet behind the years rookie not fit to polish Snake's blood-encrusted boots.
However, there is justice in the world, because the stealth masterpiece is coming to the PC very soon, and this grave error has been amended. Not only can you play the entire original game as Snake, Raiden or an assortment of other characters, but five new sidemissions or Snake Tales' have been added, along with a couple of hundred VR training missions including a new first-person mode.
But there's more! You can also play dozens of new Alternative Missions', in which you must negotiate the original levels with all new tasks, such as defusing bombs and taking surveillance photos. And as an added bonus you can get radically airborne in a secret Tony Hawk's-style skating mode.
So, we may have had to wait a while for the world's finest stealth sequel to hit our PCs, but when it does, it will be an incredibly rich package - the definitive version if you will. And that's gotta be worth waiting for. Here we go again. PS2 owners may have grumbled a bit when Xbox players got the deluxe MGS2 last Christmas, but now they can sleep well knowing they get not only the same game, but also less slowdown and an all-new mode: Snakeboarding!
Get it? Skateboarding with Solid Snake! Anyway, this is the same Metal Gear Solid 2 you played a couple years ago. It's still got the kick-ass stealth gameplay flight is better than fight and a story that all but unravels at the end. Seriously, the plot will leave you totally confused for the last hour or so of the game. Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance is currently available on these platforms:.
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