
Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, Swap, Swap 2, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Verified”)
Present aim: Survive
MGS3 is an effective recreation. It’s a fantastic recreation, even. There, I stated it. Though consistently altering my camo and coping with nature on this recreation actually checks my persistence, it’s nonetheless the form of stealth problem that would summon me to my break. And regardless that this story, I dunno, ain’t my factor, goodness if it isn’t entertaining. And whereas the Grasp Assortment’s model might not really feel just like the MGS3 I performed within the ‘00s, it, and MGS3 broadly, nonetheless has that alluring Steel Gear magic.
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There’s a remake of this traditional title arriving subsequent month, and I’m actually to see what MGS3 may be in 2025. I’ve a sense of us would possibly discover the sport tougher than they could keep in mind it. You’ll be able to actually draw a line from MGS3 straight to Dying Stranding. Managing battery meters, suppressors that put on out, needing to consistently are likely to your stock, what you’re carrying, what’s in or out of your backpack, coping with stamina—MGS3 was doing these things lengthy earlier than Dying Stranding was a child in a pod.
So to wrestle as soon as extra with a recreation that’s typically left me feeling very prickly, and to get a dose of the unique’s magic earlier than the remake, I’ll be leaping into the fictional Russian jungles as Bare Snake but once more. — Claire Jackson