I used to enjoy the Metal Gear series, I’ve played through both MGS 1 & 2, and although they have their ups and downs - they were OK. I got MGS3 very late, as a cheapy last year - and hated every second of it. Despite this I figured I wasn’t giving the game a fair chance, and from reading the masses love the game gets over on RLLMUK I decided to buy the game again - this time getting the Subsistence edition for it’s improved camera.

It’s shit. It’s one of the most joyless, tedious, self-important, so called ‘games’ I’ve ever endured. Creeping around at a snails pace, endlessly replaying the same section over & over so you can memorise the guard positions and movements. Any mistake is punished either with death, or by being forced to hide like a coward for 6 or 7 minutes all the time praying the guards won’t find you. You are denied any chance to explore or experiment as the whole thing damn near impenetrable. It’s as if the developers have done everything they can to make you hate the game - and they succeed.

This isn’t fun, it’s punishment. There is more of a “game” in Microsoft Excel. What makes it worse is it’s a game I’ve stupidly bought twice.