Editorial Review: Metal Gear Solid is one of the most successful, and maybe one of the best, PlayStation games ever. These virtual reality missions expand on the training of the special forces unit your character in MGS came from.
You, as the Virtual Reality embodiment of Solid Snake of MGS fame, can go through specific training for each of the weapons in MGS, combat simulators, and even a photo shoot. That's right, while you're working through the VR missions (most of which are mini-puzzles), your reward is that you get closer and closer to the game's female characters in a photo session. You can also unlock extra missions, eventually becoming able to play as a ninja.
The best part, though, is working through the higher level training missions, where the skills you thought you perfected in MGS are really put to the test. With 300 missions packed into this game, you better start training now. --John Cocking
Pros:
Short levels mean you can play during your lunch hour
More Metal Gear Solid action
Combat training with plastic explosives
Cons:
Hierarchical progression of levels can bore expert players
Mostly valuable as an add-on to Metal Gear Solid
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - VR Training
In 1998, Hideo Kojima single handedly changed the scope of gaming with one game: Metal Gear Solid. Within Metal Gear Solid, there were ten VR Missions. Surprisingly, people spent a lot of time with these VR missions, trying to clear them as fast as possible and honing their skills. When word of this got out, Konami developed Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions. A game that consisted of nothing but VR missions for the gamers that wanted them.
If anyone expected any story out of VR Missions, you'd probably wonder what they were thinking, because VR Missions doesn't have a story. The game is exactly what it says it is: VR Missions. Metal Gear Solid VR Missions consist of over 150 missions. At first you can only do very basic missions, including the same ten that were included in Metal Gear Solid. As well as training with weapons. The more missions you complete, the more that will open up, including missions that can get into the bizarre, like fighting a giant soldier and super soldiers.
In terms of variety, Metal Gear Solid VR Missions does a great job. There are so many different varied missions here to keep you busy. You'll also be able to unlock the Ninja and a couple of other secrets, although, none of these things is very lucrative. While it's great to play as the Ninja, the controls are a little sloppy, and there are only three incredibly short missions. As I said, however, there are a ton of VR Missions here to keep you busy for a long time.
Visually, VR Missions is on par with the original Metal Gear Solid, the only real problem being that they didn't opt to create more different looking levels. So much of the stages look fairly generic, save for a few missions where you'll find yourself in some familiar looking areas from Metal Gear Solid. You can only stare at virtual space for so long. Much of the music sounds very good though. While the soundtrack isn't exactly huge, it plays a good part in letting the player know that through and through this is not an action game. It is definitely a puzzle game.
There are two things about Metal Gear Solid VR Missions that can cause some alarm, though. The first being that many missions are fairly short, meaning that this game only really serves as an expansion of Metal Gear Solid. It's a mystery why Konami didn't just start packing it in with the original game after a while. It never really happened. The second huge problem is that the game advertises that it has 300 missions. What they don't mention is that many of those missions are the same. You'll undergo one mission and then be expected to do it again in a Time Attack. To the developers this serves as two different missions, but it's the same mission. The only difference is that you'll be doing it with an additional challenge.
As a puzzle game, Metal Gear Solid VR Missions is fantastic. It gets repetitive having to do some of the same missions over and over, and it may only really just be an expansion of one of the bonuses in Metal Gear Solid, but it still serves as a fantastic game for those who crave to do more VR Missions.
Rating: - MGS Ratings depends on below
It is fun most of the time some of it is a drag haveing to unlock every thing but if you have the guide then the rating is 5*'s. It is great if you like MGS it is a 4 but if you don't like every thing about mgs it's a 3.
Rating: - More VR Missions please...
Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions - Circa 1999
GOOD:
- Great way to hone your Metal Gear Solid gameplay
- If you loved the VR training missions in Metal Gear Solid
BAD:
- Graphics are pretty dated
- No story, think of the game more like a great big Metal Gear VR test
- If you hated the VR training missions in Metal Gear Solid
WILL IT FIT YOUR TASTE:
- Only VR training missions
- Hundreds of missions and training exercise to perform
GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Metal Gear Solid's VR Missions
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- The Cyber ninja is a playable character, if only for a few missions
Rating: - Almost as good as Metal Gear Solid (psx)
First of all, 300 missions sounds like alot, but after playing it for a while you realize that you have completed more than you thought. You are training in a VR world with Solid Snake, and other characters, like Meryl, and the Ninja. Although the Ninja only has 3 missions they are pretty fun. You can use alot of different weapons in different areas. But the reason I gave it only 4 stars is because the first one has a really in depth story and this one is just training. I recommend that you play the first one to really have fun with this one.
Rating: - ok but not great
i think metal gear solid was THEE greatest video game ever and so i had to have this addition. i was a little disappointed. some of the msssions are a little drab. the really good ones, where you play the ninja, do not happen till late in the game and so the fun is short lived. some of the missions are so basic that i blew through them in no time and others so boring that i could finish them in my sleep. this was not awful but not great and that leaves you with three stars
- VR Training
- ok but not great
