Video Game Reviews, Articles
Gamers have mixed feelings towards expansion packs and downloadable content these days. After all, a sizeable portion of downloadable content seems to be comprised of useless outfits, painted guns and cut-content, in hopes of squeezing out as many pennies from…
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It has been said that all good things must come to an end, and I guess that applies to things that really could have been done in half the time if we hadn’t waffled on quite as much as well…
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As our epic walkthrough draws to a close, we discuss the real, REAL meaning of MGS2 (other than suppression of information), Otacon’s sordid family life, why the internal areas of Arsenal Gear are named after whale anatomy, what a night…
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As we hurtle towards the conclusion of our frankly epic deep dive on Hideo Kojima’s PS2 masterpiece, the true story of Metal Gear Solid 2 is revealed in our penultimate episode. Lurking just under the surface of the glossy military…
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The Metal Gear crazy train continues off the rails at speed as we enter hour 5 of our increasingly rambling retelling of the PS2 classic storyline. In this episode, the leader of the terrorists who seized Big Shell is finally…
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What is it? Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops was Konami’s first attempt at putting a proper Metal Gear Solid game onto a handheld console. Although not considered canon, it features Snake and a number of the usual cast in the…
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*SOME AUDIO ISSUES* Our Kojima video game odyssey continues as we delve deep into PS2 classic Sons of Liberty. This episode, Metal Gear authority Paco Rodriguez tells us how Raiden and Snake were inspired by King Kong and Godzilla, what…
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Hour 3 of Paco’s grand retelling of the PS2 game story picks up where we left off last time: with the introduction of the members of Dead Cell. As we push past the veneer of military thriller normality that Kojima’s…
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Paco continues to flesh out the story of the second game in the MGS series, revealing more of the behind-the-scenes decisions and influences that shaped it in the process. Picking up after the events of the PS2 game’s tanker prologue,…
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Resuming our journey through the video game representations of Hideo Kojima’s psychoses, we invite die-hard Metal Gear fan Paco to talk us through the story of the sequel to 1998’s Metal Gear Solid. The lovable Spaniard gives us behind-the-scenes nuggets…
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Paco’s epic re-telling of the Metal Gear Solid (1998) story. Part two. With, y’know, spoilers.
Paco unleashes his passion for the Metal Gear Solid franchise in the first of a series of episodes where he attempts to educate Lee on the finer points of MGS lore and persuade him that the later ridiculousness in the…
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5. Grand Theft Auto Gangster Friday – Craig Conner Chief a Grand Theft Auto… Oh my days, I love this. Whenever I think of my childhood in the nineties, I think of this song. My childhood friends and I would…
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What is it? Metal Gear Solid V is the latest instalment of the hit Metal Gear Solid series developed by Konami. It pulls together all the things that have made the series so great over the past two decades, with…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Vdg3G9IAE Let’s play through the ENTIRE Metal Gear saga in chronological order! Warning: MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!