Metal Gear Online
Metal Gear Online, commonly abbreviated MGO and also known as MGO2, was an online multiplayer spinoff of the Metal Gear series. The game was officially unveiled in Kojima Productions' 20th Anniversary Party of…
Metal Gear Online is a shooter developed by Kojima Productions, released 12 June 2008 on PlayStation 3 and Arcade.
What Metal Gear Online is
Metal Gear Online is a shooter game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2008. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Arcade. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Metal Gear Online, commonly abbreviated MGO and also known as MGO2, was an online multiplayer spinoff of the Metal Gear series. The game was officially unveiled in Kojima Productions' 20th Anniversary Party of the Metal Gear series. While Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops featured optional online game modes that were both dubbed "Metal Gear Online", this incarnation of the online game was initially announced as a separate standalone product based on the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots gameplay and setting. However, it was later announced as being a part of Metal Gear Solid 4. A standalone version was released in Japan on July 17, 2008. On June 12…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online.
Where it sits in the Metal Gear series
Metal Gear Online is the 35th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. The next entry was Metal Gear Solid 4 Database in 2008. Its critic score of 67 is 14 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.
How it was received
Metal Gear Online holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Metal Gear Online launched on 12 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
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