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Getting the Metal Gear Solid 4 Online betarunning is a giant pain in the butt. Yesterday I ran out and grabbed akey, and then downloaded the beta, installed it, opened it, saw anupdate, downloaded it, installed it, restarted the game, saw anotherupdate, downloaded it, installed it, was prompted for my Konami and Game ID,so I created one, the system rejected it, created another one, samething, finally created one, waited 30 minutes for Konami to send me ane-mail so I could confirm my information, confirmed it, and then when Ifinally got to play the game today I had to create YET ANOTHER NAMEthat my character would show up as on the screen.
It takes a good hour or more to get all this done. Luckily, the gameis worth it. I haven't had much time to play yet—just a few matches—butthe experience is there. I customized my character, picked my skills (Idecided to buff my shotgun, assault rifle, movement, and lock-onstats), and went hunting. If it has been a while since you've played a Metal Gear game, the tutorials are worth your time... the controls can take a little while to get used to.
The graphics are solid, although I'm not seeing anything that crazygoing on in either of the maps. I've been playing on Bloodbath, anindustrial map with catwalks above the ground, with plenty of places tohide. Turn off the auto-aim though. While it may help novices, anyonewith any amount of time playing shooting games will be annoyed at thelack of headshots. This is a very tactical game online, and the bestkills involve good maneuvering; the enemy should barely be able to geta shot off.
This is the first day, no one online has become uber-good yet, at leastnot that I've encountered. Lag also hasn't been an issue—surprisingconsidering that even in this early stage there servers are slammedwith players.
Once we've had time to play some more, expect a nice write-up of theexperience. For now, it's just good knowing the beta has finally begun.Judging from some of the early matches I've enjoyed, we're for abrutal, methodical, and very satisfying beta.
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