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Solid Snake has jumped genres for the first time in his illustrious career with Metal Gear Acid, a strategy game that's arriving just in time for the launch of the new PlayStation Portable. Acid supplants the familiar stealth action gameplay of the Metal Gear series with...tactical card-battling? Yes, strange as it may sound, Acid's satisfying turn-based strategy is a great fit for the series' trademark high presentation values and quirky narrative style. It's not an easy game to get into, and if you're just looking for a portable stealth action Metal Gear, you'll need to keep waiting. But once you get a handle on the core mechanics, you'll find in Acid a rewarding game of strategic stealth combat coupled with a quirky, intriguing storyline and some neat points of nostalgia for the longtime Metal Gear fan.
The game seems to take place outside of the main Metal Gear timeline, since almost all of the characters are new. Poor old Snake is never able to get any rest--he's once again called out of retirement to handle yet another sticky situation, this time by a commander named Roger. Mercenaries have overtaken a corporate-sponsored research facility on the African Lobito Island, demanding that a secret military project called Pythagoras be handed over to them. Their bargaining chip is a hijacked airliner currently circling the skies, which happens to contain a senator who's a front-runner in the upcoming American presidential elections. By the way, this plane has been hijacked by a couple of murderous talking dolls. What the hell is going on here? Snake is sent to infiltrate the Lobito complex to find out. With the help of Roger and a child psychic named Alice, he's tasked with recovering Pythagoras and defeating the mercenary group. In true Metal Gear fashion, this is only the beginning of the tale. The storyline wends its way all over the place throughout the game, pitting multiple factions against each other and introducing new characters at a rapid clip. Some of the players in the story may not be what they seem...even Snake himself. Metal Gear Acid tells its story with still artwork and text, rather than employing the same sort of over-the-top cutscenes and voice that helped make the series famous.
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