Good addition to the MGS series
Metal gear solid portable ops for the PSP is one of the greatest psp games available, its a must have for any PSP owner or any MGS fan.
The story of portable ops follows the events of MGS3: snake eater where you play as naked snake AKA Big Boss where you must dismantle a nuclear threat ignited by his former unit FOX. It helps if you have followed the MGS storyline up to now but newcomers will fit in here to.
The gameplay of MGS PO is amazing considering its on the PSP. You can bult up your own army from getting rival soliders to join your side you can then use them in various Units such as Medical, technical and more. The main units are the sneaking ones who are the ones who actually carry out the mission. You can have spy units whihc you place on various places they then collect info for your squard such as a weapon may be discovered at that location then you can go and get it. Technical unit lets you devlop gadgets such as thermal googles NVG, mine detecors and a load of other stuff and the medical staff help you to heal faster. Your army can be as big as 100 soliders! As well as that you must work together with Roy Campball (should seem familar) whom you meet at the beginning of the game. you can do all the stuff you could on other MGS games like wall hug, jump out shots, crawl, aim and shoot in first person mode, hold up and much more. The famous CQC returns from MGS3 however is a bit tricky to master considering the controls.
The gaphics are great for a portable game from the characters to the buildings and environment. Sanke still looks great and still has his eye patch... The levels could have been a bit bigger but considering who many different ones there are doesnt pose too much of a porblem.
Now then sound... this is the reasons it didn't get a 10. Although the sound is great from footsteps to gun sounds and the good voice acting in the cut scenes, there are places its just doesnt exsist. firstly in the famous CODEC scenes n all other MGS games you can hear the voices now theres dead silence and you have to read everything, thihs is the same for the briefing screen with Roy 'talking' but you actually having to read the text again. Other little bits include when you have someone and are intergating them snake just always says 'talk' and then the hostage scream, but at the bottom of the screen its actually tells you what they meant to says such as 'don't kill me..' instead of them actually saying it. If the sound was more worked on this game would have been excellent.
The PSP game comes with online play! A feature which most PSP games don't have i was looking forward to playing MGS online.... it didn't dissapoint with a varity of modes and the works including personal scores and ranking online is very fun and can kill a lot of time, unfortunatly nowa days the servers don't seem very crowed.....
Overall this game is great for well anybody, its way better then the other crappy MGS acid games for the psp. If you can afford it get it! The story is very deep and last a while and with reply value for side missions and excellent gameplay it just says 'pick me up before you go go'.
