[PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

I must say, I've never liked cutscenes as much as I like the ones in MGS4 - and it's easy to see how Kojima filled a dual-layer Blu-ray disc (50gb!). Saying that, though, the game itself is in no way lacking. I've been playing for 12 hours, and I reckon I'm about halfway through the second act. It took me about nine hours to finish Act 1, and I do believe there are five Acts, so it's a pretty lengthy game. Add in the myriad different ways of playing it and, well, you get the picture.

I don't believe it! In 16 hours and 40 minutes, I got up to the point where Drebin whisks you away in his truck (near the end of Act 2, methinks?). A friend came over today and got to exactly the same point in 5 hours and 15 minutes. Sure, he was playing on Naked Normal whilst I'm going through on Solid Normal, but come on! His style of play is much more different to mine, too. Whilst I make an effort to sneak by, and silently headshot people, he ran in guns a-blazing all the time, as if he were playing an FPS like CoD4.

One must admire the game, though, as it allows so many different modes of play - my sneak/headshot mode, my friends' guns a-blazing mode, and I know others who got through the whole thing without killing a single person. Madness.

My friend beat the game in like 18 or 19 hours. He kept getting stuck on escort missions and the last act is a bit tough ...you'll see . The ending is way too long, but good.