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Review: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker HD

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker HD fills in some missing puzzle pieces in the Metal Gear Solid series. The game was originally made for the PSP, but was converted into HD for the PlayStation 3 and they couldn't have done a better job with it. Peace Walker isn't the best Metal Gear Solid game, but that definitely doesn't mean it's not a great game because it is!

Peace Walker is set in Costa Rica in November 1974, four years after the events of Portable Ops and a decade after the events of Snake Eater. The main protagonist, Naked Snake (Big Boss), runs a mercenary unit at "Mother Base" which serves as the main menu for the game. Mother Base eventually becomes known as Outer Heaven as the game progresses. From there, you can access all the features of Peace Walker which includes: Delivery, Outer Ops, Recruit, R&D, Staff, Versus Ops, Metal Gear, Database, and Trade. All of these aren't available at the start of the game, but instead are unlocked as you progress through the game.

The story in Peace Walker is just as good as any other Metal Gear Solid game believe it or not. Kojima and his staff did a fantastic job at continuing Big Boss's life after the events of previous games. The 3.71 GB file size may lead you to believe that the game is rather short, but you would be wrong to think so. Just the main ops alone can be a rather lengthy play-through especially without skipping cut-scenes. Along with that there are a lot of extra ops you can play through as well. However, some of the length of the game comes from having to go through the Mission Selector menu instead of continuously playing throughout.

One of the best additions that Peace Walker includes that has never before been seen in any other Metal Gear Solid game is its co-operative mode. After completing the first mission, you will then be able to play each mission with a friend or random people online. Most of the missions only allow 2 players, but the battle missions allow up to 4 players. The co-operative is definitely this titles selling-point in my opinion because it can provide endless amounts of fun.

With the co-operative and versus modes, Peace Walker has great re-playability allowing endless hours of fun. Although the graphics aren't the best, it does have a story that will keep you attached to the characters and retain your interest. If you are a Metal Gear Solid fan, or just want an all around great game, I would recommend picking up Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker HD Edition for $19.99 on the PlayStation Store.

8/10 (This game is great! Aside from very few flaws, it is more than what you would expect from a game of this size. Recommended.)
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The Phantom Pain Alternative Trailer Analysis

Back in late December, Joakim Mogren, the CEO of Moby Dick Studios, released an alternative version of The Phantom Pain trailer. Although the visuals are unchanged, you will notice the music and sounds have been replaced by something new. Check out the new trailer below before we begin to analyze.

As we can all see, or should I say hear, the only difference from this alternative trailer and the original is the audio. However, some new theory's have come about after the release of this new trailer. One of the most interesting of these is that the protagonist could quite possibly be Liquid. That's right, Liquid may very well be the character you see in the trailer. Let me explain how this might be possible.

Many of us have come to believe that Liquid lost his right arm rather than his left because Ocelot wears Liquids right arm. However, Ocelot only pretended to be Liquid, so it is possible Liquid may have lost his left arm at some point.

Something else that could lead us to believe that the character seen is Liquid is the UK flag. Liquid was raised in Great Britain and worked as an agent there for a while.

Another key point in the trailer that backs up this theory is the car crash scene. Anyone who has played, and completed, Metal Gear Solid 1 will know the game leads to a car chase which ends in a car crash for Liquid. With that being said, this scene may be a reference to the ending of Metal Gear Solid 1. It does seem as if Liquid dies after the car crash, but there is the possibility of him being in a coma. His body was recovered by the government at some point.

Personally, I believe this assumption is very unlikely to be true, but there is always that possibility. Let's go on to some other things I'd like to point out that I may not have in the first post on the original trailer.

The white petals seen when the character is awakening from his coma could very easily prove that he is Big Boss considering the same white petals were seen in Metal Gear Solid 3 when he is ordered to kill The Boss.

One last thing that I wanted to point out about the CEO's name is that the beginning of his first name, Joakim, sounds like the word joke. We already know that the letters of his name rearranged spell out Kojima, but maybe the choice of arrangement for the fake name sounding like "joke" wasn't just a coincidence. Just a small something I noticed and thought I would share with you.

With all of that being said, what do you guys think? Maybe some theories were over-thought and just don't fit the Metal Gear Solid story. Regardless of which assumptions are true, I'm ready to see more visuals or clues for The Phantom Pain.
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