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Friday, October 21, 2011

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (No. 3 PSP Best Game)

Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Konami
Year Released: 2006


Every time he says it, we all laugh, roll our eyes and nod knowingly. Sure, Hideo Kojima, this is really your last MGS game. With Portable Ops, though, he took the series in a decidedly unique, clearly PSP-focused direction. It was still about stealth, sure, but broken down into smaller areas and with the dynamic of trying to build a private army through capture. A multiplayer component made the almost Pokemon-esque way of collecting, capturing and trading valuable members of other players' armies seem somehow fresh -- even the act of finding Wi-Fi access points that would reveal unique additions to your personal army was turned into a button-mashing mini-game as only Kojima can do it. Oh, and it probably doesn't help that even now, almost three years later, the game still looks damned good on the PSP.

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