Metal Gear Acid
by Konami
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Video Game Reviews of Metal Gear Acid
Customer Review: Do Your Research!
Summary: 5 Stars
To all the people who are complaining about how they wanted an action game instead of a card-based strategy game, please do some research on a game before you lay down $50 for it or even $240 for a console.
Now, for those who know what they're getting in to, I loved this game. I do like card and strategy games, which I found this one to be very solid (no pun intended). But what really one me over was the cards themselves. If you haven't played the previous "Metal Gear Solid" games or even "Metal Gear" you may not find them interesting, but if you have you will find the cards to be a huge database from "MGS3-MGS2" and even a sneak peek at "MGS4".
Overall I found this to be a very enjoyable game.
Customer Review: Worth a second examination
Summary: 4 Stars
When Metal Gear Ac!d was first released, it was the subject of scorn from the majority of Metal Gear fans. Excited by the prospect of a Metal Gear game on their new Playstation Portables, fans were dejected to discover that this wasn't really a Metal Gear game at all. In reality it was a spinoff title that didn't even exist within the same continuity. Worst of all, it wasn't even "Tactical Espionage Action"...it wasn't even an action game!
Instead, what Konami delivered us was a strategy/card game. Such games were not new - they had existed in mini-games in other RPG titles and even full-fledged "card" games had been released in the past, though many of these didn't cross the pacific.
Now that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has been released though, and given fans what they had been wanting since the PSP was released, this game is worth a second examination. It may have alienated the core Metal Gear fanbase, but for the type of game it is - it is VERY GOOD at what it does. The plot is interesting and the script well written. There may not be much voice acting in the game, but at least I feel like I can hear David Hayter's voice when Solid Snake is speaking. The advantage this offers is that as a gamer you need NO KNOWLEDGE of any previous title in the Metal Gear franchise. So if Metal Gear's stealth gameplay doesn't appeal to you, that doesn't mean this game needs to be ruled out. It is a very good strategy game and the card system produces an element of chance that causes any given stage to play out a little differently each time.
Perhaps you'll get lucky and acquire potent cards early, perhaps you'll instead have to rely on more mundane cards. The card game is, itself, simple while still having a variety of different cards that produce interesting effects. Also notable are the character cards - these cards usually depict someone from the series such as Grey Fox or Olga Gurlukovich. When you play their card, you get to see a short rendered clip of that character from their source game. Very cool.
If you're looking for a traditional Metal Gear game, then this is definitely one to avoid - check out Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops instead. However, if you have a taste for strategy games - regardless of whether or not you love or hate Metal Gear then this game is worth checking out.
Customer Review: Not what I expected.
Summary: 4 Stars
This game is not what I expected for a metal gear game. The title should be changed, cause never had I thought that metal Gear could be played with CARDS!!! Sounds stupid huh? When I first picked it up I almost threw it in the garbage, but I figured I'd give it a chance. So after beating it several times and getting all the cards I realized how addictive this game was. It is interesting how the devlopers left the standard metal gear format and went to this. I think they did a pretty good job with it. However for changing the third person action gameplay to a turned base card action RPG almost, it loses a star out of spite.Customer Review: Great game
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are fan of MGS, this is must have game. Is very smart that card based game. People complain about how much time to pass a mission and all, You just have to get used to. First mission I died at least 10 times before I pass, but soon as you understand the cards, things go a lot smoother. I guess is good that I have patient. Pretty soon I'll buy "Acid 2" then "Portable Ops"Customer Review: Tangent of Metal Gear
Summary: 1 Stars
First of all this is a card based game. If you have never played one, like me, your going to be confused for a while. After getting used to it you will decide its eigther a horrible way to paly a game, its challengeing and im too cheap to go buy another game, or that you enjoy it. The easier mode is of course a little easier but the hardest mode is very tedious. In terms of a Metal Gear Solid game it mostly uses the name and the plot, the gameplay is a tangent from the series. I reccomend renting this game first to see if you like it, then buy it. It has loads of features to keep you wanting to play, such as collecting cards mostly. Purchase with caustion but for some this can be a very enjoyable game.