PSP Reboot #2: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

The story of this game takes place in-between Metal Gear Solid 3:  Snake Eater and the very first Metal Gear game.  The story is typical with cut scenes in a comic-like style.  This is probably because the PSP doesn't have the space for all the full-blown cut scenes that Metal Gear Solid games typically have.

The game play is about as broken as you think it is.  The controls in the later Metal Gear Solid games were extensive ever since the introduction of CQC in Metal Gear Solid 3.  They try keeping some of that here with hard to work with controls.  The worst part is that they have the third person perspective here like in Metal Gear Solid 4 instead of the still camera views that we had in previous games.  The third person perspective works in MGS4 because we have a right stick to control the camera with.  In Peace Walker, you're trying to move Snake with the pseudo joystick while trying to control the camera with either the directional buttons or X, circle, triangle, square (depending on what control scheme you pick).  Either way, you sacrifice something, which makes intense combat just about impossible.

They included a PS3 version of this game in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection compilation.  I haven't played it on there yet but I would imagine it's boatloads better since you can play it with a controller that supports the control scheme.

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