When I play videogames I usually rate them based on two criteria: story and gameplay. A good story is always first. I have played games that are unfun to play just because of how good the story was. Fun gameplay is next because no matter how dumb a story is, if the game is fun than I will play it. Metal Gear Rising: Revengance falls firmly in the second group. Ignoring the archaic word, (yes, revengance is a real word, look it up) this game's story is full of ridiculous shit. You play as a cyborg ninja named Jack but codenamed Raiden. You see, Raiden used to be a child soldier who grew up in Liberia. He worked for a man named George Sears, codenamed Solidus Snake, who went on to become president of the united states in the early 2000s. I will go into more detail on him some other day, he is a whole other ball of crazy. Anyway Raiden grows up to be pretty well adjusted all things considerded, and he joins a U.S. special forces unit called FoxHound. Some shit happens in a different game that i will review later. Fast forward to 2018. Raiden now works with a private security company called maverick. He gets attacked by a different PSC named Desperado while on a job in africa. This is where shit gets awesome. The first thing you do is get into a sword fight with an "Unmanned Gear," UG for short, that is three stories tall. You get into a fight with a giant robot. While you are a cyborg. Awesome. After you stomp it's shit in, you have to go same the president from some cyborgs and only you are a bad enough dude to do so. Next you fight on a train with a cyborg named sam who has a red sword so he is better than you. After you get your shit stomped in you get a new cyborg body and proceed to wage a one man war with Desperado. You fight a robot dog who becomes your dog-shaped-robot-buddy, a lady cyborg with a shitload of hands, a dude cyborg who you have a lot of trouble cutting because of magnets, a big guy cyborg who uses giant scissors, sam again, a giant spider-bot (that you defeat by cutting off one of its giant sword arms and having a giant sword fight) opperated by a U.S. senator who has "Nanomachines, son," and finally that same senator but now he is on foot. The story is dumb. You start in Africa, then you go to Abkhazia, the sewers of Mexico, Denver, Colorado, then finally Afghanistan. And it turns out the whole thing was an extremely complicated assassination attempt on the U.S. president. And something about using virtual reality to create child soldiers. That's just the story. Gameplay wise, you get to run around, cutting dudes and robots in half to get their left hands and their gatorade filled spines. All cyborgs and robots have these special healing and repairing apparatus inside them, usually attached to the spine, and when you cut them (the dudes) just right you grab the spine and crush it in your hands to absorb the electrolyte juices. They also glow a light blue color. One of the coolest things about this game was the ability to slow down time for precision cuts. This ability made it so you can cut dudes in cool ways. If you wanted to recreate the black knight you can. Not many games allow you to do that. In conclusion, i enjoyed this game and i highly recommend anyone who has 6 hours to kill should pick it up. I think used it goes for like $15.
Tl;dr: this game is dumb and fun.
Requested by me, again
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