Next-Gen Previews: Metal Gear Solid 4, MG Online

SCEA's Peter Dille called it "the mother of all exclusives," but is the recently delayed title shaping up to justify the hype?.

First and foremost Metal Gear Solid 4 is a Metal Gear game, with its roots in that lineage almost overbearing at times. It is exactly like its predecessors in some of the most important and varied respects – often fluid, often fiddly, sometimes astonishingly tense and sometimes tedious.