![]() ![]() You play as Raiden in this latest in Kojima’s desperate attempts to convince the world he’s cool whether he’s successful in that endeavour is down to you. Attaching their name to a Metal Gear project already tells you this game is going to be a little different to the norm, but you might not be prepared for just how much this attempts to break the mould, and I suspect a large part of whether you enjoy Metal Gear Rising will come down to how readily you can accept those changes.Īs you might guess from all the preamble, Metal Gear Rising is an action game proudly made in Platinum’s signature style. Platinum’s name certainly comes with a fine pedigree by the time of Rising’s release they’d garnered some fame for titles like Bayonetta and Vanquish, both frantic and stylish action games. Indeed, he’s made sure of that, from plastering his name across every game to being part of a huge controversy when he eventually left both Konami and the future of Metal Gear hanging and uncertain, especially given its parent company decided to push forward with this venerable and loved series by releasing themed pachinko machines and a lack duck multiplayer zombie survival game that for some reason get to wear the Metal Gear branding.Īnd yet, in the middle of Metal Gear’s height came Metal Gear Rising, a game handed over to Platinum rather than staying solely in Kojima’s hands. It’s impossible to separate Metal Gear from its creator and director, Hideo Kojima. ![]() ![]() If there’s one thing that had helped define Metal Gear up to the point of Rising’s release, it was that it stood as a testament to the merits (and flaws) of the auteur project. Released Feb 2013 | Developed: Platinum | Published: Konami Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PC, PS3, Xbox 360 ) Also it’s about a bloodthirsty samurai cyborg man and his robot murder dog. Metal Gear Rising takes all that and dials it up to 11 in the maddest way possible. It’s a series which lives in a kind of mad singularity between cerebral, depressing, and utterly absurd. Across the course of the franchise it’s dealt with ideas such as the dangers of nuclear proliferation, the widening grip of military development on nationstates, and the reduction of soldiers to simple tools devoid of humanity and commodified as loyalty is stripped down and turned into a controllable force to fuel the never-ending grinding churn of a global war economy. If you know anything at all about the Metal Gear franchise, you’ll know it’s a series known for helping to popularize stealth games, for bringing movie-style production and sensibilities to gaming, typically in the form of lengthy cutscenes and the occasional big action set-piece, and for its wrangling with complex, difficult philosophical questions and concepts. The fact that Metal Gear Rising exists baffles me. ![]()
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