Kojima Productions, it seems, has found his own style. Every game with the words Metal Gear in the title should be sold exactly twice. So it was with Metal Gear Solid 3 - first came out Snake Eater, then expanded edition of Subsistence. So it was with Metal Gear Ac! D for PSP - two parts of the game differed little from each other. It looks like it will be so with Metal Gear Solid 4, the same engine and the story will release Guns of the Patriots, and networking Metal Gear Online. From recent releases neokuchennoy was only Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops for the PSP - a game about a difficult life of a young Big Boss. But she could not last long: in September complement Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus released in Japan in mid-November - in the U.S.. With the European release of Konami again, not in a hurry, it is expected sometime in 2008.
If you remember, the most interesting part of Portable Ops has been a great single player campaign - a fascinating, long, unusual, with a brilliant voice acting and first-rate music. History of Big Boss fit into the storyline of Metal Gear Solid and reminded about the greatness of "license" game series. All the more surprising that this remarkable campaign for some reason not included in the composition in Portable Ops Plus. Disc with the game in the U.S. costs only $ 20, while she Portable Ops Plus is positioned as a "multi-user addition" (do not be afraid of the word "supplement", the game works fine without the original Portable Ops). All that is on this disc - the new single player Infinity Mission yeah expanded and revised version of the multiplayer Portable Ops.
 | |  | One of the new heroes in Portable Ops Plus - Raiden in a suit from Metal Gear Solid 2. | | Rifle Famas - one of the new weapons to Portable Ops Plus. |
Previously, we gathered a team of soldiers in a single campaign, and then sent them to conquer the networking spaces. In Portable Ops Plus you can download data from the preservation of the original game, but you can search for recruits in the new regime Infinity Mission. The plot is not here, in essence, a collection of missions with a randomly created job. Such a regime is not a marker grade story campaign Portable Ops, and most likely a sad random dungeon of some Japanese RPG. In Infinity Mission four difficulty levels - Easy, Normal, Hard and Extreme, and the incentive to pass this all there is only one: the harder you have, the more skillful at hand you can get at your disposal.
The second major mode of play - fixed multiplayer. Frankly, correct, here was that, in the original Portable Ops multiplayer mode proved to be highly controversial. The fact that the online used precisely those soldiers who managed to get a player in a single campaign. If you are playing online games, had to part with someone of their own. If you win - could get one of the former enemies at their disposal. On the one hand, a great idea! Play with good friends was a pleasure.On the other hand, the public servers quickly anarchy. Enthusiasts in days dismantled the game to pieces and found a way to create soldiers with any desired characteristics. As a result, most network games gangs rampaged supervoinov. Now, with the release of Portable Ops Plus, the situation has changed little. Visitors online forums have already found a way to change the camouflage of the soldiers and it seems that once again learned how to clone the heroes. In any case, there is always a classic way of pumping gratis - play with yourself with two PSP.
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Not only that developers Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus is not correct many of the shortcomings of multiplayer gaming, so more and managed to break that last game works fine. For example, before the search for new soldiers could use the receiver GPS, and now this feature is missing in the game. Furthermore, until recently allowed to "pull" of new soldiers from each matched point Wi-Fi (function Access Point Scan). Now these soldiers do not want to join our ranks for good living. They begin to make demands to the team, and if your party does not satisfy them, will not join. But the trouble is not the case. The trouble is that recruits outstanding absolutely incomprehensible statements. When dealing with such a soldier, you can hear a phrase like «No chickens». What does he mean and how to induce such person to cooperate, it is not clear. As well as unclear why the developers had to spoil the work normally part of the game.
 | |  | Another new character - Old Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4. Unfortunately, Portable Ops Plus more nothing to do with Guns of the Patriots. | | If you forget, then Portable Ops - one of the finest games for the PSP. And in addition the schedule did not lost her looks. |
Among the other additions to new levels (including the hangar Metal Gear Rex from the first Metal Gear Solid), new soldiers (including Old Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4 and Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2), new weapons (such as French Rifle Famas) , new types of soldiers. In single mode the maximum number of soldiers in the team raised to two hundred. Voice (read by David Hayter) in addition no. Surprisingly, and control scheme has remained exactly the same as it was in the original Portable Ops - and yet even then it was clear that in the multiplayer key layout is clearly room for improvement. Added regime Boss Rush (Battle of the bosses of the story campaign), who somehow appears only if the memory card will be detected by the preservation of the original Portable Ops. Will be an additional multiplayer game called Shooting Range, in which teams must shoot down apart at the end. But in the end, the game somehow turns into a mindless pumping in the single and equally meaningless meryane features online.
 | |  | A rich choice of weapons in Portable Ops Plus is bad only one thing: whatever you chose to shoot from the analog "buttons" are equally uncomfortable. | | Most of the Infinity Mission you have to drag lifeless soldiers in the truck Campbell. Just so you can zaimet new, powerful friends. |
In the general case - a pipe. In Portable Ops was a great single player campaign and mediocre multiplayer. Portable Ops Plus would correct the deficiencies of multiplayer gaming, but instead for some reason we submitted more mediocre multiplayer. Even at $ 20 such acquisition does not justify the money. Let's better this way: this twenty defer to the exit Guns of the Patriots. Extra dollars to us on another occasion, after a fresh Metal Gear Solid 4 again have to buy twice.
| SECRET! |
In the Infinity Mission mode, you can open the four familiar heroes. Complete all missions on the level of Easy, and the team will be added Neykid Snake (aka Big Boss). Passage to Medium gives you access to the Old Snake and Hard difficulty level can get Raiden. Well, if you finish the game and the complexity of the Extreme, then to the order to join the mysterious owner of the truck with the soldiers, Roy Campbell.
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