Metal Gear games have been famous for pioneering the stealth genre, with players generally starting out with a single simple weapon as they’re called upon to sneak past guards and then on to better armaments and guns. So an organization called Desperado Enforcement is sent in with its own supercharged cyborgs to kidnap the leader and stir up an international boiling pot.Īfter he and his team are smacked around a bit and shown to be ill prepared, it’s time for Raiden to get some updated tech enhancements and fly into a raging quest for vengeance … or revenge … or revengeance? That fevered pursuit is also where this new game starts feeling a lot different from its predecessors. They prefer unrest and a flourishing war economy. There are other powerful forces, however, who don’t want an influential leader doing silly things such as curbing crime rates and opting for peace. It’s four years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and this “raised to be a soldier” cyborg is part of a private security firm tasked with keeping an African prime minister safe and sound. In this game the usual protagonist Snake takes a backseat to a cybernetically enhanced battler named Raiden who reemerges from Metal Gear memory to take the lead. But this latest creation from famed game director Hideo Kojima is still something of a departure from the Metal Gear ways of old. Based on any of the other nine games in this long-running series-along with its various portable gaming adaptations-you could easily be thinking, High-tech warfare, giant biped walking tanks, katana swords, genetically manipulated soldiers, and a hard-to-follow ongoing story of political intrigue and worldwide power plays.Īll of those gaming touchstones still apply to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

As soon as I mention Metal Gear, many gamers will have a number of distinct things flash to mind.

Metal gear rising: revengeance