00:00MGS4 was at the vanguard of the stealth action shift in 2008, but playing it today, the particular
00:05way that it mixes mercurial stealth and heavy weaponry is anything but routine. Old snakes
00:10sculch through active battlefields, bewildered by the growing mundanity of war as Kojima grapples
00:14with the undeniable appeal of getting in the sh**. This is a stealth game that doesn't mind if you
00:19play it like Call of Duty, but going loud comes at the cost of stressing Snape the f**k out.
00:23Maps are focused and linear, but brimming with options, guards, are reactive, consistent,
00:27emotive, and learnable. The years have gifted me patience for stillness, and MGS4 is extremely fun
00:33at a snail's pace. Slithering between guards six inches away from their boots, camouflaged as a
00:38patch of dirt, is a bitter thrill than crouching in tall grass in any modern Assassin's Creed.
00:43This master collection port is a genuinely thrilling object. Proof that MGS4 wasn't a mass hallucination
00:49that we all had in 2008, but a uniquely strange meditation on existential anxiety, of warmongering
00:55doomerism, automation, desensitized violence, and back pain. Trapped for eighteen years on a
01:00PlayStation 3. Konami has done good work here, though at times it's the bare minimum. You can
01:05now play MGS4 at 4k, yay, but at a lot 60fps, less yay. Still, Guns of the Patriots has gone
01:11so
01:11ignored for so long that it's hard to split hairs here. This is the best new way to play one
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