Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review (Strategy Informer)

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review (Strategy Informer)

Added: 20.01.2014 12:19 | 11 views | 0 comments

From Strategyinformer.com: "For many PC Gamers, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance marks a welcome return for Konami's popular franchise to the PC. But just as significantly it also marks the PC debut of Platinum Games, whose lunatic brilliance shone in titles like Godhand and Bayonetta. So how does Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance stack up to those titles, while shouldering the weight of the cumbersome Metal Gear Franchise? In fact it stacks up rather well indeed, the excess and style of Platinum Games' creative vision is a good fit for the Hollywood-meets-anime styling of Metal Gear and returning hero Raiden has long since graduated from the effete disappointment of Metal Gear Solid 2, having since transformed into a ludicrously growly voiced cyborg ninja. Thanks to his range of swords and free-running ability he is actually fun to control. In a break from Metal Gear tradition, where characters usually perform amazing feats of physical endurance and strength in cut-scenes before reve...