Want endless radio chatter between the hero and his back-up team? Lengthy ruminations about peace, the lives of henchmen or the nature of a killer? Cardboard boxes? You’ll get it all here. The story isn’t quite as complex or twist-heavy as your average Metal Gear Solid, but all the signature elements are there the eccentric bosses, the carefully planned set-pieces, the surreal sense of humour. It then tracks Raiden through operations in Eastern Europe, Mexico and Colorado, as he investigates the shadowy dealings of a military corporation and its cyborg agents. The game opens with an attack on the head of a progressive African state, and Raiden’s brutal and disfiguring defeat in combat. Revengeance takes that process one step further, taking Raiden down his darkest road yet. The Metal Gear series has already seen Raiden transformed from ashen-haired newbie operative into a deadly cyborg ninja killer.
Stealth and espionage are out of the window along with regular Metal Gear hero, Solid Snake, with the action now focused on impressively violent swordplay and the hero role usurped by Raiden, the surprise star of Metal Gear Solid 2. That’s important, because Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is nothing if not a hack-and-slash action game. Revengeance is the work of Platinum Games, the team behind the underappreciated sci-fi shooter Vanquish and the masterful Bayonetta still the finest hack and slash action game to appear in this generation. Secondly, there’s the matter of that external developer. Firstly, this is the first all-new Metal Gear game to hit a home console in nearly five years, and while this one has a different star, a different genre and even a different developer, it’s still been made under the auspices of Kojima productions, and it still carries the hallmarks of the Metal Gear saga.
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Available on Xbox 360 and PS3 (version reviewed)ĭo you need a reason to feel excited about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance? Well, here come two.