Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2004
- Released
- November 17, 2004
- Genres
- Shooter · Tactical · Adventure
- Platform
- PlayStation 2
- Developer
- Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
- Rating
- 86/100 on IGDB
About this game
Konami's 2004 PS2 stealth game, and the one that takes the crate away and drops you in a Soviet jungle in 1964. Camouflage is a number: you change uniform and face paint to suit the ground you are lying on and the game tells you what percentage of you is visible. You also get hungry, and a hunger gauge that runs out costs you your aim and makes your stomach audible, so you hunt and eat. Close quarters combat lets you take a guard by the throat and choose what happens next. The bosses are set pieces rather than health bars: one of them is a sniper called The End, who hides somewhere in a stretch of jungle and waits for you to move first. Hiding is something you read off the screen and act on rather than guess at.