Metal Gear Rising Revengeance’s release date is right around the corner and we’re pretty darned excited to find out whether it’s going to a) completely freaking rock, or b) be a blemish on the phenomenal name of Metal Gear Solid. We’ve already discussed a few of the issues regarding Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and some of the areas where the game could fall flat on its face (including unintuitive controls and cutscenes that seem to continually interfere with gameplay). So, on this page let’s play the nice card and look at some of the elements of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance that are absolutely awesome.   10th Coolest Part of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance—Raiden No matter what anyone says, there’s on way in which Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is truly brilliant, and that’s Raiden himself. Raiden is, without doubt, one of the coolest video game characters of all time. I mean, really, who the heck doesn’t want to play as a ninja cyborg with a sword as Read more [...]

8th Coolest Part of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance—Bosses Metal Gear games have always had some of the absolute best bosses in gaming. My personal favourite MGS boss has got to be Psycho Mantis, the weird freak who telepathically takes control of your pad and forces you to unplug it (now that’s inventive video game design, people!) Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is certain to follow the brilliant boss designs of previous games in the series. And if you don’t believe me, check out this boss chick who quite clearly is touching herself. . . see. .  .touching herself. . . Anyway, with the new gameplay mechanics afforded by the brand new combat system, there are a ton of ways in which boss fights in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance might play out. Clearly, with this self fondling boss chick, you’re going to have to charm off her many arms. . . what else will we have in store from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance’s bosses? We’ll have to wait and see.     7th Read more [...]

 6th Coolest Part of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance—Gray Fox Many months ago, Hideo Kojima stated that he would have preffered to have had Gray Fox as Metal Gear Rising Revengeance’s main character, but the studio were happier using Raiden. It’s clear to see why Hideo Kojima is such a big fan of Gray Fox. Not only way Gray Fox in Metal Gear games long before Raiden was, but in many ways he’s a more interesting character. Older games and emulator fans will remember how cool Gray Fox was all those years ago on the MSX. To be fair, he’s a character that deserves more attention than he gets. Well, at least with Metal Gear Rising Revengeance we get the Gray Fox skin.    5th Coolest Part of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance—Inferno Armor The Inferno Armor was recently revealed as a bonus for gamers who preorder Metal Gear Rising Revengeance through Amazon (though apparently is also available through GAME in the UK). According to the Inferno Skin trailer, the skin improves Read more [...]

2nd Coolest Part of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance— The Reinvention It would be weird to make a list of the coolest things about Metal Gear Rising Revengeance without at least mentioning the fact that Konami took the creative risk to completely reinvent one of their top franchises. Whether or not Metal Gear Rising Revengeance ends up a success or not shouldn’t overshadow the fact that the creative effort in itself is impressive. Too many companies hold on to their franchises too tightly, afraid to change the slightest things. Metal Gear fans can count themselves lucky that Konami at least have the balls to try something new.   The Number 1 Coolest Thing About Metal Gear Rising Revengeance – The Sword Was there ever any doubt that this list would end with the sword? Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is entirely about the sword, about beating the unholy hell out of people with it. MGR’s sword could go down in history as one of the coolest video games weapons of Read more [...]

Konami have gambled a lot on Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. After all, the Metal Gear franchise is one of their biggest sellers. More than that, though, Metal Gear is the face of Konami, and being the face of the company, they need it to be a success if they’re to please fans and shareholders and keep the Konami stock trading prices high. Sadly, the Metal Gear Rising Revengeance demo is far from stellar. It’s scrappy, lacking finesse and polish, and from a video game design point of view, it’s simply lacking. Obviously, the final version of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will be much better than the demo. But for now, there appear to be ten key faults that will make Metal Geer Rising Revengeance a disappointment for fans and send the Konami stock trading price plummeting. Click next to begin the top ten reasons why Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will be a disappointment. 1   2    3   4    5     6     7     Read more [...]