Play it on: PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Swap, Swap 2, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Verified”)
Present objective: Survive
MGS3 is an efficient sport. It’s an ideal sport, even. There, I stated it. Regardless that continually altering my camo and coping with nature on this sport actually assessments my endurance, it’s nonetheless the sort of stealth problem that would summon me to my spoil. And despite the fact that this story, I dunno, ain’t my factor, goodness if it isn’t entertaining. And whereas the Grasp Assortment’s model might not really feel just like the MGS3 I performed within the ‘00s, it, and MGS3 broadly, nonetheless has that alluring Metallic Gear magic.
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There’s a remake of this traditional title arriving subsequent month, and I’m actually to see what MGS3 will be in 2025. I’ve a sense of us may discover the sport tougher than they may keep in mind it. You possibly can actually draw a line from MGS3 straight to Dying Stranding. Managing battery meters, suppressors that put on out, needing to continually are likely to your stock, what you’re sporting, what’s in or out of your backpack, coping with stamina—MGS3 was doing these items lengthy earlier than Dying Stranding was a child in a pod.
So to wrestle as soon as extra with a sport that’s usually left me feeling very prickly, and to get a dose of the unique’s magic earlier than the remake, I’ll be leaping into the fictional Russian jungles as Bare Snake but once more. — Claire Jackson
