Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Game Reviews
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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Overall Critic Score:3.6114
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Critic Reviews
The result turns what should be an engaging, clever and straightforward story about a super-agent out to save the world into a never-ending, philosophical after-school special. Luckily, the gameplay is still so good that we'll surely forget Kojima's ego...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Game Revolution
Ah, yes, November. The time of year when all the systems call upon the finest game developers with sky high production values and duke it out with their killer apps for the year. It just so happens that every 'killer app' status game this year is a...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Games are Fun
With the radar screen gone and the camouflage index, stamina gauge, inclusive healing system and a whole host of new gadgets in, the series is more tactical than ever....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Adrenaline Vault
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and visceral ride. Consider this end sequence Kojima's apology for making people put up with the nonsense of MGS2's ending. As good as the rest of the game is, this ending shines by creating a massive, over-the-top, exhilarating ride. One could easily po...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
I was about halfway through Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and I'd just wrapped up one of the game's most intense boss battles. I was elated, and also a little tired and looking to save the game and get some sleep, but I figured I'd press on just a...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Entertainment Depot
It takes the quality gameplay from the second game and vastly improves it, while taking the better story pacing from the first game in mind when providing the lengthy tale that really involves the gamer....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Into Liquid Sky
Possibly the best-looking PS2 game EVER! The character models are intricately detailed to show facial grimaces, wrinkles on clothing, and wonderful animation throughout the entire game....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Gaming Age
Konami's superb Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater represents an innovative installment for the series. Snake's must traverse natural environments that open up entirely new strategies to the game. The structure and interface is similar to previous titles,...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at The Laser
Metal Gear Solid has its second adventure on the PS2, and it's an engrossing, expansive adventure no action fan should miss....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GamePro
Action-packed and visually stunning are just a few of any compatible editorial buzzwords that could be used to describe Snake Eater. Simply put, it's the tactical espionage game we've been waiting for. In retrospect, Sons of Liberty left us all...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GotNext
The character development...oh, man...the character development is unbelievable. Seeing such fantastic depth in these characters completely blew me away; some of them feel so life-like it's quite frightening....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at PSX Extreme
Is Metal Gear Solid 3 the best game of the year? Yes. Is Metal Gear Solid 3 the best in its series? No....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Gaming Target
Some games are so good, it’s almost intimidating to play them. You begin to wonder if your gaming skills are up to the task. You bought the game because you know it’s great. You know it’s great because everyone says so. And you agree. But you’re...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Digital Entertainment News
Not only is Snake Eater a triumphant return to the PS2, it's perhaps the best installment of the franchise to date. The inclusion of camouflage and greater attention to hand to hand combat via the CQC system are great additions to gameplay....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Game Over Online
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater manages to set a fantastic pace early on and keeps everything going right up to the closing credits and then some. Overall, this is the best Metal Gear Solid game that we've seen and, yes, it rules. First of all, I have to...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at IGN
Much like "San Andreas," it doesn't force this stuff on you. It lets you uncover them on your own. It's like having a surprise being unwrapped just a little at a time. This is certainly a much tougher game than the first two and the higher sense of...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at PGNx Media
The boss battles, camouflage use, Close Quarters Combat and wound treating are simply revolutionary for this game....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GamingTrend
With two well received and highly praised Metal Gear Solid games, Konami releases the third installment to the series: Snake Eater. Unlike the previous games, Snake Eater takes a step backwards and visits the past, during Cold War period. Stealth...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Game Rankings
Without a doubt, Metal Gear Solid is among the most respected franchises in gaming, despite there only being a handful of games in the series. The first game exploded on launch in PAL regions in early 1999, thanks to a trail of hype longer than the Nile....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at PALGN AU
It has all of the elements of a blockbuster movie mixed with the interactivity of a video game, resulting in an experience that is both invigorating and intriguing. In other words, this is game is a work of art, and needs to be experienced....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at eToychest
Creepy, creative, and tenacious, the Cobra team outdoes even the wicked Foxhound squad from "MGS" in terms of flat-out coolness. The nerve-racking, ambitious duel against one boss, code-named The End, will likely go down as one of gaming's finest. So...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Electronic Gaming Monthly
If Kojima had you and lost you with 2, then all will be forgiven here; if you don't yet know the joy of the best-executed stealth game in town, then put on your facepaint and get set for a mission that's truly unstinting in its virtues....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at 1UP
The game that invented tactical espionage action is back. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater takes players to a new time and place. Gone are the days of long hallways, air ducts and large offices. The jungle is your environment in this game, changing...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GameZone
Metal Gear. Ten years ago, you’d probably have just given a blank stare into space having not ever heard of any such game. Not that Metal Gear was a bad game, but compared to Super Mario? Gimme a break. Ask that same blank staring gamer about the Metal...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Game XC
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the name of the game, and it puts you in the role of 'Naked Snake.' You're on a mission to save a Russian scientist named Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov who has defected to America but is now making an unbelievably...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Amped IGO
It’s the cold war, not long after JFK’s assassination, and production has begun of a Metal Gear in Russia – an armored tank with the ability to launch nuclear missiles from any location, posing the threat of starting up another world war with...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Gaming Horizon
The world is in a midst of a Cold War, East versus West. A recently returned Russian weapons designer has been discovered working on a new weapon that would put Soviet Russia not only in control politically but by force. The Fox Unit of the CIA sends one...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GamePlasma
Now, don't think it's like The Jungle Book here; this isn't a jungle full of furry critters and swinging apes. In fact, it's quite the opposite....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at XGP Gaming
The opening moments of the game show Snake preparing to dive out of the back of a plane (the world’s first Halo jump) into the middle of the Soviet jungle. As Snake plummets towards the Earth we see a flashback to Snake and his superior, informing him...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at NZGamer
Few games were as popular first time round as the original Metal Gear Solid released for Playstation in 1997. The game boasted a great storyline and the best stealth action ever seen at the time. Metal Gear Solid 2 released in 2002 for PS2 took what...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Club Skill
It's not very often that I am lost for words when writing a review, however as I sit here with a can of Bundy and Coke that's exactly the predicament I find myself in with Konami's Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. There's a couple of reasons for this....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Future Gamez
Where to begin? When we last left the series at Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, we all had a headache. I’ll start off by saying fear not, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is far more straight forward, and you needn’t worry about 30 minute codec...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Game Vortex
The core gameplay is similar, but the new camouflage and stamina additions require strategic adjustments that perfectly fit the deliberate, tactical feel of the game. It's a beautifully crafted game from every angle....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Worth Playing
If you’re one of the three people on Earth who don’t know what Metal Gear Solid is, here’s a quick rundown. The year is 1987, and the game Metal Gear is released on the MSX. It shocks gamers everywhere with its revolutionary stealth-based gameplay....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Strategy Informer
through, but the more engrossing storyline and great additions to gameplay make Snake Eater the most accomplished title so far in the Metal Gear Solid (MGS) series.Story is what drives Snake Eater, and to reveal too much about the various twists and turns...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GameSpot AU
silent blows. Tricky camera perspectives make it difficult to avoid all enemies in the spectacular and varied environments, but Snake is now better equipped for close fights. He is handy with a knife, can grab opponents to use as human shields, perform in...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Sydney Morning Herald
Hideo Kojima's critically acclaimed "tactical espionage action" series returns to PlayStation 2 in the anticipated follow-up to 2001's Sons of Liberty. Instead of slinking around futuristic installations, knocking on metal to distract guards, or crawling...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at AllGame
The Metal Gear Solid franchise has always been a popular series of games attracting an almost fanatic, hard core crowd. Hideo Kojima’s titles are known for their insanely twisted storylines, movie-like direction and production values. The latest...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Games Xtreme
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater delivers a long-awaited payload of tense action veined with marathon cutscenes, cinematic references, bubbles of humor, corny/cryptic dialogue, edible animals, and shards of true weirdness. If you Metal Gear players out...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Yahoo! Games
It’s an amazing game, easily one of the finest in the Metal Gear family. Even if this weren’t a MGS game, it would still be one of the greatest currently out on any of the consoles....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Thunderbolt
Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 2 was one of the best selling games of 2001, despite some negative fan reaction against the highly philosophical and perplexing storyline of the game, as well as the surprise introduction of a new playable character named...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Da GameBoyz
Good work, Snake. The current date, as you know, is August 1964, and you’re deep within a jungle. You must reach an abandoned factory and rescue Sokolov. They are keeping him captured, and are using him to make some kind of weapon system – we think...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at GameCell UK
Certainly not perfect, but it provides an unrivalled single player experience....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Boomtown
Snake Eater just pips "Resident Evil 4" when it comes to boss battles, with Konami's title boasting some of the finest boss confrontations since the first PlayStation Metal Gear Solid; we’re talking Psycho Mantis territory now people, for...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at RewiredMind
I didn't really have high hopes for Metal Gear Solid 3, and I can understand why so many people are reluctant to give it a try. Even if you can put aside your memories of the series' heavily flawed second entry, you can't deny the fact that video-game...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at HonestGamers
It has been a while since a MGS game hit the shelves for the PlayStation 2. Now the long wait is over, fans of the series will undoubtedly be down at the shops first thing on the day of release. This time around you are going to be in for a feast of...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Contact Music
the console. A few years ago Konami released their second installment of the series, Sons of Liberty, which in my eyes I felt was a very worth sequel, although many complained of the addition of Raiden. Now it's time for the third installment and thi...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at DarkStation
When all is said and done, Snake Eater achieves what no other game can on such a level: complete immersion into an action-driven interactive movie....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Netjak
Hideo Kojima is the “father” of a...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Gamer Within
In October 1962, a Soviet submarine officer narrowly averted global catastrophe by blocking an order to fire nuclear torpedoes at the height of tensions in the Cuban missile crisis; on Oct. 28, the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuban territory....read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at Science Fiction Weekly
After a year filled with an endless stream of bad-to-mediocre Konami releases for PlayStation 2 (Cy Girls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Time Nexus, Neo Contra, etc.) it's nice to know that Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater closes the year...read the complete Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater review at UnderGroundOnline
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