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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PlayStation 3
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PlayStation 3 is a stealth-action game starring a visibly aged Solid Snake. In a world where private armies wage war, he once again faces Liquid Ocelot. You travel through areas where other factions are already fighting and seek a way to carry out your mission. Charging straight at every enemy is often far from the wisest approach.
Snake can crouch, crawl and take cover against surfaces. His OctoCamo copies surrounding colours and patterns when he remains still lying or standing against a surface. The Solid Eye helps you assess the environment and potential threats. You first observe where people are looking and where cover lies. Combat allows firearms and direct confrontation, but careful movement can prevent a firefight before anyone notices your presence.
Between playable sections, conversations and long cutscenes take considerable time. Familiar characters and earlier conflicts acquire new significance, so knowing the series helps with its many references. You play Snake's campaign alone. The original Metal Gear Online service has ended and is not among the promised features here. Standard, Platinum and anniversary packaging do not change the core of this PS3 story; a cardboard-cover listing describes packaging, not a new campaign.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
This copy is offered with a cardboard cover. That describes the packaging of Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3 and does not add a separate campaign or other games.
Manual
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Kojima Productions developed Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots under Hideo Kojima. Konami released it for PlayStation 3 in 2008. The story followed Solid Snake's experiences in earlier Metal Gear Solid games and placed him in a more militarised future. The idea of war as an ongoing economic activity gave the conflict a different scale from a single military base or isolated mission.
The aged Snake also made that past visible in the protagonist. At the same time, his equipment offered new ways to pass through environments unseen. OctoCamo linked camouflage directly to walls and ground surfaces, while battlefields let you move between existing lines of fire. Long conversations and cutscenes remained important storytelling tools. The game thus combined technical aids for moment-to-moment stealth with an extensive conclusion to established storylines.
Trophy support and an option to install the entire game arrived in 2012, alongside the earlier chapter-by-chapter installation. Konami linked this to Metal Gear's twenty-fifth anniversary. Existing copies could receive those features through an update at the time, and an anniversary reissue appeared too. This did not turn it into a sequel or a new campaign. The listed products remain versions of the same PS3 adventure. Original online content and later collections must be considered separately from this solo campaign.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection bundles earlier adventures on PS3, including Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3. You encounter events and characters that return in the fourth game. MGS4 uses more modern battlefields and OctoCamo, following an older Solid Snake. The collection offers several earlier stories; MGS4 focuses on an extensive conclusion to its own storyline.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain lets you explore larger areas on PS3 and prepare operations using equipment, companions and your own base. MGS4 divides its campaign more clearly into chapters and interrupts stealth with longer story scenes. Both allow unseen actions or force, but The Phantom Pain gives more room to repeatedly planning individual missions.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist gives Sam Fisher different ways to approach secure locations on PS3. Light, sound and choosing between evasion and attack matter greatly. MGS4 adds OctoCamo and battles between other armies. The presentation also differs: Blacklist builds its missions around a terrorist threat, whereas MGS4 connects them to an extensive series of prior events.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution combines stealth and shooting with conversations, upgrades and different building routes on PS3. You develop Adam Jensen's capabilities. MGS4 gives Snake a defined story and military tools within its chapters. Both reward observing before acting, but Deus Ex makes developing your abilities a larger part of your approach.
Dishonored has you infiltrate secure places as Corvo using weapons and supernatural powers on PS3. You choose routes and can avoid many confrontations. MGS4 mainly uses military technology and camouflage instead of teleportation and other gifts. The setting changes the approach too: Corvo explores a plague-stricken industrial city, while Snake travels through various conflict zones within a war economy.
