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Yeah, I know, once again I'm late for the party, but who the fuck cares?

The Metal Gear franchise is well known for its staelthy gameplay, deep characters, complax plot and beautiful visuals. The series' most known protagonist is Solid "Badass Motherfucker" Snake, who made his debut in the 1987 Metal Gear - the original.

But who the fuck cares about this franchise's histroy, eh? :P Today I'm talking about Metal Gear Rising... Revengeance (Christ, that name...), a spin-off made by Platinum Games after being asked so by Kojima - the creator of Metal Gear. When it was first revealed back in 2009-2010 that Kojima is going to make a new Metal Gear without Snake__ everyone said "No Snake???! SNAKE?!".

The game was to feature slow-mo (i.e. Bullet time) swordplay with the ability to mix stealth and fast-paced action, starring a character called Raiden, who served as the main dude in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Stupidity and a major NPC in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Pussies. Wanna know how good this went? Not very much; Kojima's team didn't know how to mix two different worlds, and so they called up Platinum, who wiped out the stealth in favor of fast-paced, insane action.

The result? Pretty much the greatest hack n' slash game of this generation.

Story

Metal Gear Rising: Redumbass is set four years after the events of MGS4, circa 2018. Since the events of this game, the world's nation began to use PMCs (private military companies) for many reasons. Those companies have also started to use cyborg tech to make their soldiers stronger.

You play as Raiden, who's also a cyborg... ninja (just. don't ask...) - Just play MGS2 and 4 if you want to know his history.The premise tells you that Raiden returns to the battlefield in desire of providing money for his family, as well as... "SAVING THE WEAK". I can mock on and on the story for being a big hole in the ass at first sight, but after replaying it several times, checking many aspects of the narrative and going to laugh a few hours at the game's final boss (SPOILER) Uncle Sam, I can safetly say, this is INDEED a Metal Gear game.

I wouldn't spoil the story that much, but it does has several twists that left me with a wide open mouth, most notable the discovery of the main villians AKA Uncle Sam and the Bald Santa of the brains. But overall, in the end the whole plot made sense - they just wanted to use war as business AKA starting a party!!!!!

Now, there are several reasons I consider Rising's stroy is inferior compare to its older brothers:

• It lacks emotional impact
• It feels rushed at the first moment, too long at the second.
• Most characters receive short screen-time.

But don't get me wrong, Rising features a well written story that includes dark themes that really makes it feel like Metal Gear such as: revenge (doesn't really hitting the bull's eye), usage of child soldiers, war as business, effects of high-tech gear on people's life, and effect of murder on the main character.

And I must admit this possibly one of the best stories ever in terms of coolness and badass-ness. Even if this IS the weakest plot in the series, it still have the Metal Gear spirit within it!

8.5/10

Graphics

For years the Metal Gear franchise was known for being a visual masterpiece, being the most detailed and beautiful among its peers. For the first time ever, Metal Gear has lost this title.

Yes, Rising is not as good looking as other games in the game, but it's still one of the better looking action games, especially when it comes to the action scenes. Each action scene looked... EPIC. They all were much more detailed than other things in the game, with a clever usage of different angles to make Rising feel like an action film... more than a REAL action film!

The same can't be said on the game's environments: most of them look dull, gray - in short - generic. Don't get me wrong, they are not "ugly" in the bad way of the word, but they don't stand out and almost none of them make the "wow" effect.

Character models, on the other hand, are very detailed and every movement looks so flexible and realstic (as far as realistic as you can get from a Metal Gear game).

There are still several pop-ups and screen-tearing, though.

9/10

Sound

Rising has a an excellent score, filled up with rocky and metal pieces that pump you up during fights. The score comes to new heights during boss battles, and each boss fight has its own unique music, which is often a deep message that helps to describe this boss. For example, Monsoon (the boss of the forth mission) has a background music that describes his nihilist view on the world and mnakind.

Voice acting is also very well done with some notable performances such as Crispin "Motherfucker" Freeman as Sundowner (I mean, the guy's awesome, remember Alucard from Hellsing?), John Kassir as Monsoon and Quinton Flynn finally understood how to make Raiden's voice badass.

10/10

Final Verdict

• +Story with a Metal Gear feel...
• -...but lacks emotional impact
• +Badass and cool Raiden
• +Awesome boss fights
• +Best soundtrack ever?
• +/-Voice acting
• +Blade mode
• +Challenging and demands skills...
• -Camera is worst thing to happen to Rising
• -Several glitches

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• Story: 8.5/10
• Graphics: 9/10
• Sound: 10/10
• Gameplay:
• Lasting Apeal:

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• Final score: ?/10

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This blog is off-topic (i.e. unrelated to GTA), and was simply made for entertainment. Got that? NOW SHUT UP AND READ!

Music is important to every game as it builds the game's atmosphere and, in most of the time, the story itself... or it can be just an excuse to turn off the sound. Anyway, no matter what, every game needs one piece, one tiny instrumental track, that will serve as its ace. And that's being the 'main theme'. A 'main theme' is the leading track in a game (or any other type of media), and more than often, the 'parent' piece for other tracks (not always the case, though).

In this blog, I come up with 10 main themes that in my eyes, are the best in the gaming industry.

Numba 10:

"Main theme", from Call of Duty: Black Ops

I made myself a complete hypocrite, the first theme on this list is a Call of Duty theme. But, regardless of what I think about the CoD series in general, I simply love this theme and its game, CoD: Black Ops; BO was a unique FPS, by being one that focused on story rather than the action. but don't get it wrong, it's still violent as hell.

Anyway, this theme song is just awesome. It like the game tells you "go and dick around Call of Duty. NOW!". Nah, go play Bioshock.

Numba 9:

Number 9 is: The Lost of Us, from The Last of Us (duh!)

A rather new addition to the list is the main theme of The Lost of Us. the highly acclaimed PS3 video game that was released a couple of months ago.

I don't know why, but I like this theme song ever since I got the game. It has this sad and lonely feeling, whispering to the player that this is not a happy game, there gonna be blood, deaths, emotions.

Still, you can't deny the fact that TLOU is simply one of the best games ever made.

Numnba 8:

"MORTAL KOMBAT", from, well... "Mortal Kombat

Before we had games like "Tekken" and "Dead Or Alive", "Mortal Kombat" and "Street Fighter" ruled the fighting genre. I think it's pretty obvious why the MK theme made it to the list.

So yeah, just listen to the theme and enjoy.

Numba 7:

"5OUL ON D!SPLAY", from Gran Turismo 5.

I think that a lot PS3/GT fans will kill me for putting this so low, but this is my list and I can do whatever I want. ^^

Anyway, I don't think many theme songs have actually lyrics - and I don't mean just yelling "Mortal Kombat!" or "AHHHHH". I mean full lyrics, with lines and not just repeating the same word again and again.

Numba 6:

"Main theme", from "Skrim".

I'm not sure why that is on the list, but, hey! what can I do, it's a stronger base...

I don't have something smart or special to say on this one. Apart from the fact that it is epic.

Numba 5:

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