Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the final canonical Metal Gear game to feature Solid Snake as the main character. The gameplay of the previous games have been kept along with some new features…
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 12 June 2008 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 22 hrs to finish.
What Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2008. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 2014, the world is in chaos, the "war economy" plunging the world into never-ending battle. This fuels the need for private military companies, the five largest of which (together rivaling the power of the entire United States Army) are owned by a single mother company, Outer Heaven, with Liquid Ocelot at the helm. Liquid Ocelot, a fusion of the consciousness of Liquid Snake and the body of Revolver Ocelot, is once again set on world domination. Solid Snake, now also referred to a Old Snake due to his advanced accelerated ageing, is dispatched to assassinate Liquid Ocelot as a personal favor to Roy Campbell.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Metal Gear series
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the 34th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. The next entry was Metal Gear Online in 2008. Its critic score of 84 is 3 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.
How it was received
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 756 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 22 hrs.
What it launched against
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots launched on 12 June 2008, within three weeks of GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and Secret Agent Clank. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Secret Agent Clank.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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