The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, you heard me - fuck this game, man. What a disappointment.

Don't get me wrong, the game did look beautiful and there was some pretty decent gameplay, but essentially it seems that the creators' time and effort were spent mainly on showing the player how much time and effort they spent. They tried to squeeze about 50 hours of story into 12 hours of gametime and it really didn't work out at all. "Ooh, look at all these pretty posters, hey, i can hold up the guards and steal each of their unique dog tags...Oop! Time for another 45 minute cut scene - has it been 30 seconds already?" I mean, jesus christ, I've seen <i>movies</i> involving less sitting and watching than this game.

And can someone tell me whose bright idea it was to make Snake a playable character for less than a third of the game? Why wasn't this man fired immediately upon the mere suggestion of such a blasphemy, let alone executed like a stray animal in the street? And as if the elimination of Snake wasn't bad enough they have you play out the remainder of the game with this pitiful and annoying bastard named after a mortal kombat character. But I think they realized that the introduction of "Raiden" to replace Snake, while enough to drive the average gamer to the <i>brink</i> of madness, was just not quite sufficient to put one into complete hysterics. Hence the addition of Rose, Emma, and the nude scene.

But anyway, Newsradio is on and I really don't feel like attempting to be clever any longer so, in summary: MGS2 sucks. DMC is better. Fuck Raiden. Fuck swimming and fuck stupid whores who can't hold their breath. Fuck the fucking Codec. Snake rules.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yup. This game is a fucking disappointment.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Boo hoo. Skip the cut scenes.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>That's why you can skip through cutscenes and fast forward through the codec. And if you hate Raiden, stick to the Tanker mission.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Seems like Kojima pulled out all the stops for this one. I'm just thankful to Yevon that I can at least skip the codec conversations now.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Hold on a minute. You've played the first MGS. You remember how fucking lame it was, plot-wise. Did you really think the sequel would be any better?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, you still need to know what the fuck is going on or what's the point of even playing?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, the plot itself wasn't that bad, per se...It's just that I was expecting a game, not an interactive movie</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>You can find a summary of the plot if it's so damn painful to watch. And the ending makes little sense anyway, so it won't matter if you skip it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Which the first MGS wasn't? Come now, Gentz.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>A little late, but fuck you, Black Lotus....and, Stephen? ...uh...fuck you too</div>