Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops - Sony PSP

Came new & sealed as described.

This is a terrific PSP game not to mention a terrific Metal Gear game. Kudos to Kojima for being willing to support the platform and for doing so with a game rooted in canon. The game does a terrific job of both providing an entertaining narrative as well as excellent gameplay despite the PSPs lack of a second thumbstick. This game serves as a prequel to the original Metal Gear games (on the MSX system) as well as Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2. It is essentially a sequel to MGS3: Snake Eater, following the exploits of Naked Snake prior to his ascension as Big Boss. Im not sure why this game is so rare and difficult to obtain. Japanese publishers like Konami tend be more inclined to discontinuing a game, however, this game is an essential piece of the Metal Gear saga as well as one of the biggest selling and best reviewed PSP titles ever. The good news is, with the forthcoming release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Sony has finally made this game (as well as its expansion Portable Ops Plus) available for digital download through the Playstation store. For those unable to obtain a reasonably priced copy of the UMD version, I highly suggest you download it for a mere $15. As a PSP owner, youll be glad you did.

Really great game and understand what big boss was like right after mgs 3.

Its extremely fun, the lack of the a second analog kinda bugs me though thats expected with a psp because if youre used to using a second analog or rations or other items and that item isnt there for ones like MGS2 or 3 it kinda screws with you but its really fun nonetheless.

V. Good product & service

Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops is one of the top games for the psp, and there is a good reason for that. Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops has basically the same gameplay as Metal Gear Solid 2, but in a portable sense. You can control a league of somewhere around 300 soldiers with sneaking units, spy units that provide better map details, and medical and technical units that increase the equipment selection available to your teams. The storyline continues from Snake Eater, and gives you a good idea of the events leading up to Outer Heaven and Metal Gear Rex. If you like Metal Gear, then youll like this game.

This game is great. I think in my opinion this has pretty good gameplay. I love the MG series. The controls can be a little iffy but you will get use to it. If you love the MG series you should add this to your collection.

The graphic is good, but for me it is a slow game, I dont recommend this game for persons like shooting and actions....

This game is terrible. This is coming from a big fan of the MGS series (you can read my glowing review of Snake Eater for instance). The camera and the controls are what do the most damage to this game. Without two analog sticks, controlling the camera without moving is almost impossible (and even if you take two hands or modify the controls to do just that it fights you the entire time making the effort wasted). needless to say where the camera automatically points is almost never in the direction youre interested in. The controls pioneered in the second installment of the series are very poorly carried over here. The aforementioned camera is a huge issue, but the lack of the two shoulder/trigger buttons hurts this game. A MGS-1 style game probably could have made an excellent PSP game, but alas, they opted for a control scheme not suited to the limitations of the PSP. The analog nub doesnt ave any speed control to it (not sure if this is the PSP or the games failure to take advantage of it) making the analog portion refer to directionality only. This makes fine-tune aiming difficult, and on a moving target impossible. (This is further complicated by the low resolution of the PSP). This means that due to terrible camera and awful handling/controls, both sneaking and gunplay (the only two kinds of gameplay in the game) are tedious and unpleasant affairs. Even if the controls were perfect, or this was ported on to an actual console, this is still the weakest game in the series. Level design is obnoxious, (ie 5+ minute long vent crawls with nothing going on is a common feature). The game repeatedly beats a dead horse with forced repetitious ojectives. Example of a typical level: - Upon beating the previous level you are given a 3 minute dialogue about the next mission objective. When you select the next mission, you are given roughly the same dialogue about the mission objective again. Upon entering the mission you immediately get a lengthy raido message about the mission objective again. Upon entering the room with the objective, it does 20-second cinematic pan of the objective, and you get a radio message about the objective. Once you approach the objective, you get a radio message about the objective again. You blow up the objective, and then get a radio conversation about blowing up the objective. After completing the mission, you then have a dialogue sequence again about how you blew up the objective. The MGS series is known for being overly verbose, but this game is almost a parody of it. Its only saving grace is that every second youre in a dialogue means its one less second you have to be playing with the games awful controls. Finally, theres the load time. Every time one of these dialogue sequences comes up, theres loading. dialogue sequence ends? Theres loading. Restart level? more loading. I have the PS-Store downloaded version (ie not the mini-disc) which I think would make loading less of an issue. God help you if you have the mini-disc. Do yourself a favor: dont ever play this game.

I do enjoy the MGS series quite a bit, and Ive tried numerous occasions to enjoy this game and try to play it through, but it just doesnt do it for me as much as the other games in the series. First, I made the mistake of wasting my money on Portable Ops Plus, thinking it was updated version (Like MGS2 Substance and MGS3 Subsistence) instead its more like VR Missions. Anyway, I finally realized my mistake and purchased this. The graphics look fairly good. The cut scenes, although not animated like the other games, are still halfway decent and watchable. The controls are much different from the other games, and after months of having it, I still cant get used to them. Im constantly finding myself hitting the wrong buttons at critical moments. Also, the enemy spots you far too easily. It is almost impossible to be sneaky. Aiming the gun is another pain. I have to admit I havent gotten very far in the game, and I have tried numerous times, but I just find myself wanting to play the other classic games. I would say its not for everyone.