Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone and iPod touch released
Konami's Metal Gear Solid has finally been released onto the App Store as Metal Gear Solid Touch ($7.99, App Store), a touch shooter set in the universe of Metal Gear Solid 4.
Players use the iPhone or iPod Touch's touchscreen to take aim, and then fire by tapping. For smaller or more distant targets, the user can pinch-zoom to use a sniper rifle and take out targets more precisely. Alternatively, players can take cover by leaving the screen alone altogether.
The game features 12 stages, filled with powerups, civilians and explosive barrels, and pre-rendered graphics that give the game a distinctive feel, coupled with its slightly jerky animation. Players can use 'Drebin points' earned from completing stages and exchange them for iPhone wallpapers, of which there are 40 to choose from.
Tucked away in the app's description is the fact that this version of Metal Gear Solid Touch is only the first half of the full title (or as Konami like to put it, a "special advance release edition". When the second half of the game is released, purchasers of this edition of the app will be able to update for free.
Players use the iPhone or iPod Touch's touchscreen to take aim, and then fire by tapping. For smaller or more distant targets, the user can pinch-zoom to use a sniper rifle and take out targets more precisely. Alternatively, players can take cover by leaving the screen alone altogether.
The game features 12 stages, filled with powerups, civilians and explosive barrels, and pre-rendered graphics that give the game a distinctive feel, coupled with its slightly jerky animation. Players can use 'Drebin points' earned from completing stages and exchange them for iPhone wallpapers, of which there are 40 to choose from.
Tucked away in the app's description is the fact that this version of Metal Gear Solid Touch is only the first half of the full title (or as Konami like to put it, a "special advance release edition". When the second half of the game is released, purchasers of this edition of the app will be able to update for free.
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This stood out and unfortunately, it turned out to be the case:
http://macblips.dailyradar.com/video...r_solid_touch/
I'm beginning to see how these franchises on the iphone are going. Basically spend about 2 weeks making a basic game based off the most simplistic games of a past era like duck hunt, whack-a-mole etc. put the characters and music from a popular game in it and boom, money for nothing.
This is absolutely nothing like any MGS title. It's not even as deep as MGS Acid and that game sucked. If they wanted to save money, why not just port the PSone version of MGS over? The iphone can handle that level of graphics.
If this is the best that major studios are willing to do for the iphone, it has no hope as a proper gaming platform and will just be another phone that has some games nobody wants to play.
This stood out and unfortunately, it turned out to be the case:
http://macblips.dailyradar.com/video...r_solid_touch/
The game play looks a bit tedious.