Well, can't say I don't see why this game is so revered. A truly impressive achievement. The level of detail and complexity in every aspect is astonishing. So much effort and ambition has been put into this game that I can almost overlook the issues I had with it. Almost.

Unfortunately among the fantastic soundtrack, beautiful, detailed visuals, greatly expanded stealth gameplay and very competent story there is a fair bit of clunk, menu clutter and a sizeable amount of dissapointing bosses. These things did not ultimately take away too much from my enjoyment of Kojima's magnum opus, so I'll just take away half a star.

Truly the solidest of all the Metal Gears. Even if there is no Metal Gear present in the game. Or Solid Snake. Huh.