Speaking of which, Revengeance's telling of its story is long and detailed, a point which we'll get onto later, but for now all you need to know is you play a cyborg ninja trying to unravel a conspiracy in a world dominated by private military companies and arms manufacturers, who are quite happy to sacrifice the human soul in their ongoing attempts to weaponise the human body.Īlmost every character you encounter, including the lowest level grunts, are cybernetically enhanced in some fashion, and the playable character, Raiden, is a prime specimen of these technological advancements, able to run at the speed of a motorcycle, deflect bullets with his sword like a human windscreen wiper, and carve up opponents ten or twenty times his size without breaking a sweat, although that could be because his sweat glands have been engineered to secrete liquid awesome. For the most part though, Revengeance tells its own tale, so the series' on/off relationship with the PC won't impact on your understanding of the plot too much. Revengeance is a continuation of the Metal Gear story, chronologically the latest entry into the canon. But in terms of sheer spectacle and satisfaction of play, it makes your Call of Dutys and your Battlefields look as dull as Ed Miliband's socks by comparison. It could be better still, as that uncompromising nature sometimes works against its expertly engineered combat system and brilliantly conceived action sequences.

Not only is it a good port, it's a good port of one of the most refreshingly unrestrained, unhinged and uncompromising action games we've played in years. It's a sad state of affairs, as it means PC gamers are missing an entire culture of gaming from their history, and their experiences of bona-fide classics like Dark Souls or Resident Evil 4 may have been tarnished by a half-hearted transition.Īfter being released on console last year, Konami and co-developers Platinum Games recently unleashed the bizarrely titled Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on the most enduring of platforms. Japanese games don't get released very often on PC, and when they do the ports are all too often clumsy, rudimentary things.

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