MentalNoiz
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For those of you out there who are thinking of buying this, here are some mini-impressions that will hopefully help in you're decision process . BTW, Everything is shown to you in video form, so you can see how they performed an action or move in those segments of the discs .
Disc 1 :
The entire disc is a playthrough on Extreme by a skilled player whose name I forget (its in the credits though). He(or she) does things that are quite amazing, tactics I had never seen before, or read about, obviously it may not be the same for you though . The way they dispose of The End was quite funny . I believe this player also holds the world record for the Foxhound rank speedrun . A nice thouch is they rewind the video after the player does a technique to get around gaurds, or dispose of a boss etc, so you can understand exactly how they did it .
Disc 2 :
Basic & Advanced Action : A screenshot will explain it better I think, but first, there are again things shown in here that were new to me, had not seen before .
Weapon & Equipment : Basic & Advanced tactics for all of you're equipment, rifles, handguns, grenades, TNT, scope, sonar, Boxes etc etc etc .
Strategy with Area & Boss Battle : Like the first Disc, but using different techniques . The video in the "Strategy with Area" is not nearly as complete as the first disc, kind of like a highlight reel (lasts 13 mins) . The "Boss Battles" section is complete however, the entire battles .
Disc 3 :
Legacy of Patriot : Some hilarious outakes taken from gameplay throughout the game .
Secret Factor : Hidden R1 scenes, disposing of a certain boss early, secret gameplay tactics against bosses, gaurds & more .
Find out the Snake : A game where it appears you are supposed to find the snake on a 9x9 picture grid taken from various enviroments from MGS3 . Haven't played this much at all .
War Photograph Gallery : A selection of pictures (some funny) taken from the game . These aren't gameplay shots, as they have the camera placed in areas the game doesn't allow, must be from a development box .
Trail of the Snake : A camera runthrough of all the enviroments you traversed in the game . In various FPS's you can enable "noclip" to run around the game & move the camera around the enviroments as you please . Its like that . Non-Interactive though .
Extra Footage: Have you ever wanted to Karaoke to the Snake Eater song while a montage of cutscenes is shown ? Well now you can ! There are two versions . The first is with lyrics, and the second is just the music, no lyrics .
Disc 4 :
Audio Commentary : Most (but not all unfortunately!) of the cutscenes played from the start of the game to the end, while Kojima, Shinkawa (and others?) comment . I wish I knew Japanese, I'd love to understand what they are saying . Its still worth having though as you get the cutscenes in good quality . As hinted to earlier, the only negative is the disc does not contain all of the cutscenes, maybe 75% ?
Poly-Demo Theatre : Same as above, minus the audio commentary .
Final Thoughts :
It is an enjoyable disc set, the only thing that would have made it tops is for Disc 4 to include all of the cutscenes but that isn't a huge deal . There is a whole of of content here which should provide you with laughs, enjoyment, and appreciation for the work that went into MGS3 .
On a quick side-note : I ordered this from Play-Asia who impressed me a whole lot with how well they packaged the shipment. This was my second overseas purchase ; The first was from CDJapan who dropped the ball and shipped my Silent Hill : Lost Memories in a flimsy as can be box thing, which arrived damaged, ugh . Anyhow, it was great to see it arrive so well protected .
Take Care
Here are a few examples of the quality of video from Disc 4 :
Disc 1 :
The entire disc is a playthrough on Extreme by a skilled player whose name I forget (its in the credits though). He(or she) does things that are quite amazing, tactics I had never seen before, or read about, obviously it may not be the same for you though . The way they dispose of The End was quite funny . I believe this player also holds the world record for the Foxhound rank speedrun . A nice thouch is they rewind the video after the player does a technique to get around gaurds, or dispose of a boss etc, so you can understand exactly how they did it .
Disc 2 :
Basic & Advanced Action : A screenshot will explain it better I think, but first, there are again things shown in here that were new to me, had not seen before .
Weapon & Equipment : Basic & Advanced tactics for all of you're equipment, rifles, handguns, grenades, TNT, scope, sonar, Boxes etc etc etc .
Strategy with Area & Boss Battle : Like the first Disc, but using different techniques . The video in the "Strategy with Area" is not nearly as complete as the first disc, kind of like a highlight reel (lasts 13 mins) . The "Boss Battles" section is complete however, the entire battles .
Disc 3 :
Legacy of Patriot : Some hilarious outakes taken from gameplay throughout the game .
Secret Factor : Hidden R1 scenes, disposing of a certain boss early, secret gameplay tactics against bosses, gaurds & more .
Find out the Snake : A game where it appears you are supposed to find the snake on a 9x9 picture grid taken from various enviroments from MGS3 . Haven't played this much at all .
War Photograph Gallery : A selection of pictures (some funny) taken from the game . These aren't gameplay shots, as they have the camera placed in areas the game doesn't allow, must be from a development box .
Trail of the Snake : A camera runthrough of all the enviroments you traversed in the game . In various FPS's you can enable "noclip" to run around the game & move the camera around the enviroments as you please . Its like that . Non-Interactive though .
Extra Footage: Have you ever wanted to Karaoke to the Snake Eater song while a montage of cutscenes is shown ? Well now you can ! There are two versions . The first is with lyrics, and the second is just the music, no lyrics .
Disc 4 :
Audio Commentary : Most (but not all unfortunately!) of the cutscenes played from the start of the game to the end, while Kojima, Shinkawa (and others?) comment . I wish I knew Japanese, I'd love to understand what they are saying . Its still worth having though as you get the cutscenes in good quality . As hinted to earlier, the only negative is the disc does not contain all of the cutscenes, maybe 75% ?
Poly-Demo Theatre : Same as above, minus the audio commentary .
Final Thoughts :
It is an enjoyable disc set, the only thing that would have made it tops is for Disc 4 to include all of the cutscenes but that isn't a huge deal . There is a whole of of content here which should provide you with laughs, enjoyment, and appreciation for the work that went into MGS3 .
On a quick side-note : I ordered this from Play-Asia who impressed me a whole lot with how well they packaged the shipment. This was my second overseas purchase ; The first was from CDJapan who dropped the ball and shipped my Silent Hill : Lost Memories in a flimsy as can be box thing, which arrived damaged, ugh . Anyhow, it was great to see it arrive so well protected .
Take Care
Here are a few examples of the quality of video from Disc 4 :
. If not, look into a DVD player that is Region Free or something like DVD Region Free(software solution) for you're PC DVD Drive .
