Metal Gear Solid (GBC) Review

The coolest cover EVER!

Its 1:37 am right now and I'm freaking bored. So what do I do? grab my DS, open the gameboy emulator and play MGS on it. after that I realized I can do a quick review of one of my favorite handheld games ever! Not only is it one of my favorite handheld games ever, but it is also without a doubt the best handheld action based MGS ever (better than the two on PSP imo).

Presentation

Sleck and stylish in every way. This is one of them games that  has the look of an older gen but the feel of a newer gen. This looks like a 5th gen game shrunk down for 3rd gen hardware, but NOT on a bad way (like most of the time). This is done in a very good way actually. This game has the  menu, gameplay elements, VR missions, and characters of the PS1 classic. You really can't get any better than this on the hardware, top  notch.

Graphics

Colorful, fluid, and down right amazing for the hardware. The animations are beyond what I thought could be done on the game boy color. The environments have such nice color to them. Everything just looks great. I really can't even type anymore, since I have no critisms about them, top notch.

Sound

What MGS can do on CD based hardware is so increadable. What it can do on 8 bit game pack hardware is just breathtaking. Grab your head phones, cause these are some 8 bit ssounds you wont want to miss. The music is down right beutiful. Espically level 1. taken directly from MG2:solid Snake. Damn, just so good. The sound effects work perfectly. Like the graphics, I have no criticism for the sound.

Gameplay

That's right, a cover system

 First, the very basic (but utualized oh so cleverly) controls. The D pad moves. Start crawls. A is attack. B is action. And select brings up commands.
Ya, the GBC only has two action buttionns, start, select, and a D padd. But man this game uses them to the max. Select brings up your comands. When you bress it, time stops (like in the PS1 game) and pressing up or down on the D pad selects you items, left or right selects your weapons, start activates the codec, and pressing select again cansels it. Its so nicly done and is just amazing. Snake can now move 8 ways (rather than 4 ways in the MSX games) and can use basically the same cover system as MGS. This is not only better than the original MSX games, but it also nearly matches the PS1 game.

Overall

Just to cool

to strait up quote IGN,  "This, folks, is a Game Boy Color game done right. It's clear that the right team was put to the task of bringing the classic Metal Gear to the Nintendo handheld. I want every official Game Boy Color publisher and developer to look at what Konami has done on the system ¿ and then look at the sales figures. I guarantee you this will be one of the top selling games for the Game Boy Color ¿ and this will prove once and for all that, yes, you can spend quality time and resources on a Game Boy Color title and still make it pay off in the end. Absolutely brilliant."
      You may notice I didn't bring up the story, well like most MGS's its amazing. Play this game yourself, its just that good. This is one of the  VERY few games I say is truly perfect.