Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops review - PSP

Snake has snuck his way onto the PSP, with relatively few previews, which is normally a worry, but Konami doesn’t disappoint and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is an exercise in distilled gameplay brilliance. Whether you are looking for a way to fill ten minutes or want a solid Snake marathon, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops can deliver. All the gameplay elements you’d expect from the main console versions are here and wonderfully delivered, along with a compelling storyline. Find out more when you read the full Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops review.Click here to read the full Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops review for Sony PSP now!

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops review - PSP
The Metal Gear Solid games are something of a curate’s egg: the softly, softly stealth action interspersed with lengthy cinematic set-pieces and cod philosophy has an ability to frustrate as much as mesmerise. Thankfully, Konami has distilled all the brilliance of Metal Gear for this portable outing and largely dispensed with the superfluous moralising. What emerges is a wonderfully structured and delicately nuanced game, perfect for a quick ten minute blast or mammoth session.
Set six years after the events of Snake Eater, Portable Ops invites you to South America to find ex-members of Snake’s old FOX unit who are plotting something nefarious with the Russians. Could it be anything to do with a bipedal nuclear-capable vehicle? As you would expect from a portable Snake adventure mission environments are smaller but still deliver enough enemies and interior/exterior locations to avoid claustrophobia. From rail bridges to hospitals there’s just enough variety to keep you interested – but some more colour (the games brown palette does get repetitive) would have been welcome.

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