3 Reasons Not to Miss Konami’s Metal Gear Survive

Back in 2017, Konami’s Metal Gear Survive was regarded as one of the 50 most anticipated games of the following year. It is a game that centers on a fight for survival in a world that is infested with zombie-like beings and other monstrous creatures. When it was finally released in the first quarter of 2018, fans were left mystified but still wanting for more.

We outline here the top three reasons why no PC gamer should miss Metal Gear Survive. You’ll hear from industry expert reviewers such as Heather Alexandra of Kotaku, Michael McWhertor of Polygon, and Leon Hurley of GamesRadar.

The first half is an intense single-player campaign.

Though the game opens with a lot of plot questions, it delivers a fairly exciting single-player campaign. In a surprising innovation, the single-player portion is only a setup to enter a much larger world. The single player section takes up half of the game. Michael McWhertor of Polygon says, “Metal Gear Survive’s single-player campaign is a bewildering, cheesy trip. It’s full of twists and turns, some of them genuinely surprising.”

Leon Hurley of GamesRadar echoes McWhertor’s sentiment as he says, “…this is an enjoyable and rewarding survival game. There’s a satisfying grind to its demands—get food, gather the wood, iron, rags and so on you need to make weapons, fences and other gear. It’s basically a more grown up version of Don’t Starve, right down to accidentally setting things on fire.”

Heather Alexandra of Kotaku, for her part, says that the game at various points presents an interesting fight for survival in a hostile and unforgiving dimension. There are rounds wherein the challenges that the player faces become so stimulating in the sense that they require a whole lot of insightful strategizing and careful planning.

Monster characters are designed by a popular artist.

Reviewers say that the most exciting moments of the game involve characters that are designed by Masahiro Ito, who is the famed designer of the game Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head and bobblehead nurses. Mcwhertor pays particular attention to the game’s ultimate villain. He says,   “Designed by artist Masahiro Ito, the creator of the Silent Hill’s iconic Pyramid Head and bobblehead nurses, the big bad of Metal Gear Survive is an unexpected terror that establishes the game as more of a stealth-horror hybrid.”

The multiplayer levels demands tactical and strategic skills.

Those who want challenge will really appreciate the surprises in the multiplayer half of Metal Gear Survive. In this part, a team of at most four players must ward off at least three waves of increasingly difficult antagonists.

Each round requires quick thinking and a great deal of cooperation between players. In fact, you can craft weapons out of items that other players have gathered, as long as you are able to access them in shared in-game repositories.

Released in 2018, Metal Gear Survive is an interesting game that rightfully demands the high-powered and advanced features of modern-day gaming laptops. Gamers must pay attention to the minimum graphics and consider whether their computer can deliver the excellent sound required for navigating stealthy parts.