EDGE: MGS4 Review 8/10 (Scans)

Violater - 568 days 6 hours ago

wow just wow, thats it I'm out before the sh!tstorm starts.

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el_bandito - 568 days 6 hours ago

Bad reviews, low scores, or whatsoever. They won't stop me from getting the game day 1.

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Time Lord - 568 days 6 hours ago

Bishock and gear of war got 8, Mario Kart got SIXfrom Edge! So to fan this mean jack S..t

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Fishy Fingers - 568 days 6 hours ago

To everyone says... "they gave GTA 10/10 ZOMG!!!" Remember that they have played both GTA and MGS, have you?

While I'm super hyped for MGS, slagging off a reviewer that's played the game when you have NOT is ridiculous.

It's opinion... nothing more.

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CrazzyMan - 568 days 6 hours ago

Eurogamer:
MGS4 - 8
GRID - 9
EDGE:
MGS4 - 8
GRID - 9

GRID brings more to a genre, then MGS4? LOL.

THEY, PROBABLY, JUST DON`T LIKE MGS.
MGS 2 - 8
MGS 3 - 8
MGS THE TWIN SNAKES - 7

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pharmd - 568 days 6 hours ago

yeah, you make a good point, my whole thing is... i didnt think GTA4 deserved a 10/10 so....

a. i question their cred as compared to my own opinion

b. i just cant fathom Kojima making something worse than GTA4

@violater
LOL

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Violater - 568 days 6 hours ago

looks like I need to go back and play grid.

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Alcohog - 568 days 5 hours ago

Its Edge, they are a joke!

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Fishy Fingers - 568 days 5 hours ago

Well there's the opinion.

After you have played both, and you give GTA 8/10 and MGS 10/10 will that make you right and EDGE wrong? Nope, that's just your opinion and at the end of the day, it is only your opinion that should truly hold weight with you.

Edge have always been harsh and hard to please, that's why I like them, because they don't buy into hype. But regarding scores, some of my favorite games have been canned by the reviewers, I don't care, give it 5/10 or give it 10/10, doesn't effect what you get in the box.

MGS4 has been made for the fans, not everyone's going to like that, but fans will love it.

@Superfragilistic, Thank You :)

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Superfragilistic - 568 days 5 hours ago

I agree wholeheartedly.

You deserves bubbles for a reasoned and sensible argument. If I could give you more I would. :)

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AllroundGamer - 568 days 5 hours ago

whoever pays the reviewers more - wins, don't you know that?

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HighDefinition - 568 days 5 hours ago

10 for GTAIV
9 for GRID

From edge is rubbish.

8 from EDGE seems realistic, considering normally a 8 from them is a 11 from someone else.

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LastDance - 568 days 5 hours ago

this is what happens when they dont buy out reviews....another gaming trait the east is yet to pick up...

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callahan09 - 568 days 5 hours ago

Yeah all these "critics" who give a game like MGS an 8 are a bunch of ignoramuses (ignorami?). Game development is a high-risk business, criticism is extremely low-risk. The people who poured their hearts & souls into making MGS 4 a competent game that runs smooth and is fun to play, the powerful & creative minds who invented this story and tell it with such cinematic flair... these people are the real heroes of our industry. The critics who undermine their creativity and efforts are just jealous weaklings. They exercise all the creativity of a rat, if that much.

I find it personally offensive how they mistreat the fruits of these brilliant peoples' labor. MGS4 has had more put into it than any game coming out this year, with a deeper and more meaningful story and running on an incredible technology that never slows down and always looks pretty. It's a fun game with high replay value. These critics need to learn to appreciate the efforts of their biological superiors (and by that I don't mean Japanese versus European... I mean literally that the folks who developed this game have powerful, intelligent, intuitive creative minds the likes of which these critics couldn't even dream of having)

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Gamingisfornerds - 568 days 3 hours ago

It's nice to see some gamers in here with a common sense of reality.

@kindi_boy, lol...that's just pathetic, seriously.

I see people from all sides whining about reviews. And it always boils down to the same thing, whichever "camp" you're on:

If the review score doesn't match your expectations, the reviewer/reviewing site is rubbish and are biased/payed off. Once the score does meet your expectations, they're the holy grail of reviewers!

I'm not a MGS4 fan and am not impressed with what I've seen of this game so far, not one bit. Perhaps I decided to play it anyway and came to the conclusion that I recognize the quality present in the game, but just didn't enjoy it. In that case I could give it an 8. I'm I wrong then? Should I give it a 10 because others do enjoy it a lot? No. It's my opinion and that's all that matters.

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PistolPumptMonk - 568 days 2 hours ago

HA totally just made my day. best comment ever.

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Gamingisfornerds - 568 days 2 hours ago

You can review a game by set aspects, but even then the score can differ greatly from review to review.

Graphics is highly subjective. One game can have all the technical bla bla, but may have horrible art-direction and design. Should the reviewer then just say: It has that much AA, good AF and high draw distance and give it a 10? That's just silly.

2 different reviewers can for instance point out 5 aspects of a game in their review. But one reviewer will put more weight into one aspect than the other. One might think graphics are more important than the other. Another reviewer might think story is where it's all at. I myself almost always agree with Gametrailers.com reviews. I mostly agree with their points and arguments in their reviews. Except, I often totally disagree with the score...see where I'm getting at?

You see, it doesn't make sense to go by each and every aspect of a game and determine the score by the sum of those parts. It's about the overal experience...FUN...you know? I think that's something gamers tend to forget, expecially this generation. It's all about "my d*ck is bigger than yours" and completely overlooking what games are all about in the end.

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illizit - 568 days 2 hours ago

@fishy fingers
If they didn't buy into the hype, then why did they give GTA IV a 10/10? IMO, NO GAME should EVER get a 10/10 unless its absolutely perfect. GTA IV is not one of those games; it's not perfect. It has bugs, etc. It has been the best game this year however it still doesn't make it perfect nor a 10/10.

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LJWooly - 568 days 1 hour ago

This is the same EDGE that gave Halo 3 10/10. Hard to please, my arse.

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darkpower - 567 days 20 hours ago

How do you figure that MGS4 got more hype than GTA4? GTA4 had the entire DLC argument attached to it and Microsoft wouldn't shut up about it. It had ALL news outlets talking about EVERYTHING about GTA4.

Has anyone done THAT kind of thing with MGS4 just yet. Yeah, it's being hyped, but not as much as GTA4 was. So your argument fails, and how Superfrag could blindly think that was a good argument is beyond me.

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bishop-br - 567 days 16 hours ago

We all know MGS is a love or hate case.

Some people hate the long cutscenes, the stealth gameplay (you can't just go out of cover shooting without die sometimes...) while many others just love all of it.

I can understand people that like more GTA than this, so for one side I can understand those rates. But, looking for the other way, they should make the review showing the qualities of the game, not their personal opnion.

Said that, I don't have read. I can't say if they made a good or a bad review without reading it... The rate? It's just opnion, taste, personal.

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Mark 1 - 567 days 12 hours ago

Be happy that EDGE gave it an 8. I would have given a 5 for the cutscenes, framerate and load times.

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darkpower - 567 days 12 hours ago

So...you've already played the entire game before it comes out on June 12th? Wow, Kojima must've been EXTRA nice to you!

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solidt12 - 568 days 5 hours ago

Yeah that's just Crazy. They gave Gears and Halo 3 a 8 but a Racing game a 9. I wonder what they gave GT5 Prologue?

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morganfell - 568 days 5 hours ago

who is discouraged? look what i had to say about ng2. mgs4 is not a mainstream game. it has had mainstream press but it is still a game, as has been repeatedly stated by kojima, made for the mgs fans. i am proud to say it is my favorite series. i did not be come a fan in the past 6 months. i am not a rpg gamer that is going to try it. i have been a gear head since 1987.

i have a hard time buying into a review and the first thing i see is the fact the release date in the article is the 16th. if you can't get a fact straight how can i trust your opinion.

regardless as a gear head i am far beyond the mere opinions of some rpg gamer writing a review in a booth half way round the world. this is what people do not get. as gear heads we could care less what some non gear head has to say about it. it isn't that i don't play rpgs. i have played a few. but gear heads know that the mg series is a genre unto itself and you either get it or you do not.

if you think people laugh at gear heads then you have no idea the ridicule and derision they have for people for whom the mg series is just quite beyond.

you can easily spot a gear head. when someone says 90 minute cutscene they say "great!"

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urban bohemian - 568 days 5 hours ago

Gears of war got the same score. We'll have to wait and play it before we can decide how good it is mate.

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ape007 - 568 days 3 hours ago

do think that gears of war can touch mgs

I know gears of war is great but nothing can beat the boss.

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Area_51 - 568 days 2 hours ago

i'm telling you -2 off the top for not being on the 3fixme
there is so much corruption in gaming buisness right now, it makes me sick to the stomach.

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SteveUrkel - 568 days 2 hours ago

this is the same score they gave other MGS games in the past! not corruption/conspiracy; freedom of expressing opinion! can you honestly claim corruption when they have a history of rating the series as an 8? if you're a fan of the series its a 10/10 and day one buy already. screw the reviews : )

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ape007 - 568 days 1 hour ago

reviews should be a product review not an opinion review,the word review doesn't mean an opinion,it means how good is the product,for example:graphics quality,story,gameplay,lengh,o nline mode,any bugs,framerate issues,replay value,etc....

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solidt12 - 568 days 5 hours ago

You didn't know! the Monkey will be the main character in MGS5 with octo camo. LOL

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Organic_Chemistry - 568 days 2 hours ago

What monkey? You mean the keropi frog in mgs3 ?

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shine1396 - 568 days 6 hours ago

didn't they give halo a ten? so what what did mass media give halo then...eight means that its a good game, nothing special, i reckon...

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Ghoul - 568 days 6 hours ago

yeah thats what i said didnt i ?

for get the 10 ratings i give a fl***g f**k about 10s they are mostly made out of hype i liked halo 3 and i love gta4 but they do not deserve a ten in normal criteria, maybe in momentum and style (for each customer class) but not in technical or gamedesign superiority

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The Wood - 568 days 5 hours ago

they are not us. We know what we like and expecting them to be clones of us just wouldn't be right. Im sure i love some games that you hate and vice versa. Its just their opinion. grid on the other hand getting 9 is just corruption lol;) *wink wink*

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resistance100 - 568 days 6 hours ago

Give Edge a Zelda game and they are happy lol.

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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 568 days 5 hours ago

Halo 3 and GTA IV

Bioshock - 8
GeoW - 8
GoW - 8
BEYOND GOOD & EVIL - 4
MGS4 - 8

Then, Halo 3 and GTA IV - 10. When all above games are x20 times better

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ice_prophecy - 568 days 4 hours ago

I am re-posting what I did in News Zone

"Eurogamer contributors include PC Gamer, Games TM and Edge magazine writers such as Oliver Welsh (Edge), Kieron Gillen (PC Gamer/ Edge), Jim Rossignol (PC Gamer/ Edge), John Walker (PC Gamer), Simon Parkin (Edge), Alec Meer (PC Gamer), Richard Leadbetter (Mean Machines), Dan Whitehead, Keza MacDonald (Games TM), and David McCarthy (Edge, MCV), as well as former GamesIndustry.biz editor Rob Fahey. Additionally, a number of regular contributors to the site write under pseudonyms (such as Egon Superb)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

credit goes to Euphrate for prompting me to look it up.

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Aquanox - 568 days 3 hours ago

Another 8/10.

Lets see what Gamespot has to say. I trust their reviews the most. For good and bad.

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Mr PS3 - 568 days 3 hours ago

They renamed thier site's to
EuroBots and Edgebox

God Damn BABOONS wouldn't know a Class game if one bit them in thier Stupid Retarded Xbot Ass

Not that GTA4 aint a class game and Halo 3 is as good as its get's on the 3 dollar's 60 and we all know how crap that game is !!!!

The fact alone that this game cant be done on the 360 is proof enough that this is a true next gen game and a benchmark for years to come and should not score less than a 9.5 on any site regardless of them being Jealous sore assed bots

But any site that does not put MGS4 in the same league as these game's are proving them selves to be very unprofessional hater's and have absolutely no clue what a class game is and like some of the BOT'S on here are really pissed in the knowledge that this game is Exclusive to the PS3 and is Impossible for the 360 and they also know that it's over for the Old Grey Xbox 3 dollar's 60

Well all i can say is

Suck it up BOT'S
It's gonna get a whole lot worse for the bots in the coming years !! The PS3 is just kicking off

So Eurobots and Edgebox you can Give all the forthcoming Exclusive's for the PS3 such as R2,Killzone and Grand Theft Auto 5 a big fat 8 it don't bother us
The PS3 owner's know what class is (That's why we bought a PS3)
And your Review's that aint worth a Damm won't stop the Mighty PS3

Just be honored that you got to play MGS4 you worthless piece's of BABOON CRAP

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LenHart - 568 days 2 hours ago

Gayspot and 1up are ttypical MS dicriding TARDS

MGS2 and MGS3 got the same score as MGS4 from EDGE

No one trusts GAYSPOT

MGS4 will be getting 10 from most websites

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LenHart - 568 days 2 hours ago

from EDGE

EDGE gave MGS2 and MGS3 an 8/10 too

so nothing unusual from these SONY haters

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 567 days 20 hours ago

Thats why i dont really pay attention to these ranking site's and statistics,hell,if i like the game.I like it.i dont need some overpaid deushbag to tell me if it's good or not based on HIS opinion.

Same goes to those movie & resturant critics

Didnt i read somewhere a year back that assasins creed got like a 9.somthing? one of the most boring game's i've ever played..

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liquidsnake - 568 days 3 hours ago

Yea I find it quite funny as well. If anything, the full game must be better than the hands on. Don't get this review at all. Anywas, It'll need a nuclear bomb written "0/10" on it and then that nuke will have to blow me into pieces if it's gonna stop me from buying this.

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Xlll - 568 days 4 hours ago

you mean like the 6 your little ninja got?

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LenHart - 568 days 1 hour ago

EDGE gave the same score to MGS2 and MGS3 as well

MGS4 will be getting 10 from most websites

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gambare - 568 days 1 hour ago

If that doesn't makes you think, then you don't see that they score the hype, not the games, GeoW is a better game than Halo3, and less hyped

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xboxftw - 567 days 23 hours ago

@lenfart/nasim/xtrempro

"MGS4 will be getting 10 from most websites "

Yeah just you wait...b3yond for those sites to suddenly come up out of the blue sponsored by $ony.

Stop defending your greentinted game more people are finding it to be just a normal game and no one is in love with it as you sony hypnotised droid.

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hotshot127 - 568 days 5 hours ago

but they'll make sure to post this in a hurry.........

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hotshot127 - 568 days 5 hours ago

you saying again?

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Ali_The_Brit - 568 days 5 hours ago

and when NG2 flopped your mum breast fed you again, due to your low age

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Ali_The_Brit - 568 days 5 hours ago

yeh your right 8/10 IS a great score :)

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LenHart - 568 days 1 hour ago

so nothing unusual

we already knew that MGS4 would be getting scores like these from eurogamer,1up,gamespot and EDGE

However MGS4 has got 10 from many websites. It will be getting 10 from many websites as WELL

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n4gzz - 568 days 5 hours ago

well some people like grid better than mgs4. Hell even dynasty warrior is better than mgs4 for some people. :D
I love dynasty warrior 3. I put that game on my ps2 and after 5 min i am sleep :D. It has proven very healthy sleeping tablet for me. I have been doing this for over 2 years now. Can't beat that
haha

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 568 days 5 hours ago

So heyheyhey

How do you know? Did you play both games? Probably not. Well EGM did.

Go buy the mag and read what they have to say. They might be right and didn't buy into too much hype. Who knows. I am buying EDGE a lot as some other mags also and they write pretty good articles/reviews you know.

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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 568 days 5 hours ago

before you talk sh!t like usual thefart just try play the demo.

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butterfinger - 568 days 5 hours ago

EGM did? You're probably right, what score did they give it?

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Beg For Mercy - 568 days 4 hours ago

get the f@uack out dude your a xbox fanboy, but anyway its sad because on every pic they leave a caption complaining about this mk droid is useless textures really bad up close fu@k edge magazine

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 568 days 5 hours ago

Well depends. I think games that lack a multiplayer should get some points less indeed. Actually they should review the SP & MP seperately. Bioshock didn't have MP might have been a reason to rate it not so high. Can't remember exactly why it got an 8.

Well enjoy Bioshock 1.5 years after the 360 owners played it. I've seen a lot of 1 year after remakes on the PS3 right now. Lost Planet for example, you played it 1 year later and got a less game. NICE

This game might end higher then a 360 exclusive up till now. But you forgot to mention this is the only game hitting on or over 9.0 out of 10 on the PS3 1.5 years after its release. Which is kinda sad. The 360 has more of them.

MGS4, well I've heard that many reviews are talking about the fact that if you're not into MGS games up till now, MGS4 won't be for you. Which isn't a very good thing actually. It doesn't bring so much for games and especially all gamers that way.

A question for you: you say EDGE isn't doing their reviews well then?

Not only that, you can bet Gears 2 at the end of the year will hit high again, so don't worry, 360 owners will have their party soonish.

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butterfinger - 568 days 4 hours ago

"Not only that, you can bet Gears 2 at the end of the year will hit high again"

GeOW got an 8 from EDGE as well, so I guess it will be hitting just as high as MGS4.

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gambare - 568 days 1 hour ago

and they gave an 8 to it

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ATLRoAcH - 568 days ago

Actually, P:ToM said MGS4 will be appealing story and all to those who have never played or who didn't like the old metal gears. In the beginning of the review the reviewer states that he is NOT a Metal Gear fan. With that said he goes on to talk about how MGS4 has taken a spot in his top 10 list and how MGS4 will be remembered as a legendary mark in gaming even when we're all dust. These guys (EDGE) just didn't favor the game as much as everyone else will. The review is opinion. Also the reviewer for P:ToM beat the game twice. The first review copy wasn't a completely polished version so he played it again when he got the copy thats the quality of the retail version we'll all be playing. Metal Gear games always have people who go into the game hating on everything because they didn't care for a previous Metal Gear. Oh and it seems that an 8 out of 10 is pretty damn good for these guys.

Bioshock won't be like Lost Planet. All those bad port days are over. I will enjoy Bioshock why thank you.

That all being said I'm sure Gears of War 2 will be a great game and is something for you 360 guys to look forward to. Wow, did you see what I just did? I got my point across without being an immature fanboy jerk. You should try growing up and comment on news that pertains to you. You know you would look pretty smart if you never said anything at all.

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Jeppe - 567 days 20 hours ago

@Mart
"I think games that lack a multiplayer should get some points less indeed"

Well, we are all different. I'm not into multiplayer games at all. I avoid them. I like good single player games like far cry. I can't see why games like that should deserve less points..

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butterfinger - 568 days 4 hours ago

doesn't have the EDGE review up yet. Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to jump on the conspiracy theories:P

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

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butterfinger - 568 days 4 hours ago

@ whoever disagreed with facts, you're pathetic.

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LarVanian - 568 days 5 hours ago

Maybe you should play the game and see, you jackass. Ever think of that?

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Ali_The_Brit - 568 days 5 hours ago

not really, considering it has got two 8/10's and what.. a bunch of 9.5/10s ?

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heyheyhey - 568 days 5 hours ago

maybe........ the game got 9.9 from IGN

maybe........ these biased, dumbass mags and sites are getting biased MGS-haters to review the game

you WANT the game to deserve an 8, but unfortunately for you- it doesn't

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