News flash: Europeans love Solid Snake. We'll bet you're surprised to read that, so we'll wait until you've regained consciousness to move on ... Okay, good.
CVG is reporting via the ever-reliable NeoGAF forums (we think it's
this thread, although that's unconfirmed) that the following scores have been given to
Metal Gear Solid 4:
- PlayStation Official Magazine (UK): 10/10
- PlayStation Official Magazine (US): 10/10
- PlayStation Official Magazine (Italy): 10/10
- PlayStation Official Magazine (Dutch): 9.6/10
- Level (Sweden): 10/10
- Joypad (France): 19/20
- Jeuxvideo Magazine (France): 18/20 [Update: Jeuxvideo has told us that it's MGS4 issue isn't even finished yet!]
As of this writing, the only confirmed score is the POM UK via Metacritic. And though we wouldn't be surprised if these ended up being the review scores (or pretty close to them) – the MGS brand has been known to rake in high numbers – it's just a forum rumor for now.
{ May 27th 2008 at 1:30PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Maverick Saturn @ May 27th 2008 12:59PM
Didn't think there would be as much hype for this considering its not a GTA4 type game.
But like GTA4, the talk is starting. Looks like it might just have a chance to ACTUALLY be a system seller. Saying that, talk is one thing, action is another.
pkpk523 @ May 27th 2008 1:42PM
yeah, if I didn't have one, this would be a system seller for me. I think a lot of PS3 owners or potential owners are waiting for that one title to make them say "yeah, this is worth it", and even non-MGS fans will be at least curious to see what all the hype is about if the game continues to get good press. Sony needs this to be a big game with all the recent announcements of upcoming 360 games.
On another note, after sending my 360 in for the 4th time, MS just sent me a free Elite! I could hardly believe it, and their buying me off might just work, despite my better judgement.
Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award) @ May 27th 2008 2:37PM
Well, that sucks. Because all I got after my fifth repair was a reminder Halo 3 was out now, a month of free Xbox Live to make up for the 6 weeks in the repair channel, and two hours on the [hone fucking with DRM issues over my $100 worth of microsoft space buck purchases.
Mromson @ May 27th 2008 5:58PM
This is not a Rumor. I posted the scans for each and every score, however - NeoGAF doesn't allow magazine scans.
Benny @ May 27th 2008 1:36PM
This just in: the Netherlands hates Sony.
lyrrad @ May 27th 2008 3:03PM
haha nice, what don't those damn dutch hate on?!
Korova @ May 27th 2008 4:15PM
lol. Yeah, i believe the ninjas have already been dispatched.
I believe the dutch complaint was that the game is too fast paced to play while completely high.
albinogoldfish @ May 27th 2008 1:38PM
this is shocking.....
I am shocked...I wonder if my roommate will go half ith me on a PS3 to pick this up...I haven't been this interested in MGS since the playstation 1 days...
Lars @ May 27th 2008 1:42PM
"the MGS brand has been known to rake in high numbers"
You could swap that for "good games have been known to rake in high numbers" and it'd be pretty much the same statement.
MGS may be quirky, but that adds to its charm if anything. Kinda like in GTA, how you can drive down the sidewalk, taking out three lamp posts, a mailbox, and knock over an old lady, while going 80 MPH past a cop and they just don't care. But tap their bumper and they'll be all over you.
Chimp @ May 27th 2008 1:43PM
People want to know why I have so many speakers in the room (7.1)...This game is the reason :D
SoulBlade @ May 27th 2008 1:44PM
I'm shocked that an official PS magazine (dutch) gave it a 9.6 instead of a 10.
I can't give a game w/ long ass cut scenes a 10. I know I can skip them, and I don't mind watching SOME scenes for story, but I'd rather the story telling involve me interacting with the game somehow.
Zootittles @ May 27th 2008 1:47PM
Yeah, it's been a sad trend with the Metal Gear games to have increasingly more cut scenes. Sorry, I don't feel it necessary to listen to David Hayter poetic ponderings on landmines for upwards of 90 minutes in his faux-gruff voice.
Hyams @ May 27th 2008 1:51PM
MGS3 has shorter cut scenes than MGS2...
LaughingTarget @ May 27th 2008 2:16PM
And MGS3 sold a quarter as many units as 2 did. Kojima was unconvinced it was because of the ludicrous story, but because if fewer cutscenes. In his crazy world, more cutscenes = more sales.
I don't see this as a system seller. The Metal Gear series was ruined for a ton of people because of 2, and 3 suffered for it. The bulk of the buyers likely already own a PS3.
Alex @ May 27th 2008 2:25PM
Maybe, just maybe, it IS only worth a 9.6. I have no doubt in thinking this will be good.
I'm an Xboxer, and in all/most Xbox magazines the Halo games have always scored highly, even though at their core they were only mediocre.
If IGN give it the illusive 9.8 or higher, THEN I'll believe that it's worth a 10/10.
And why are the idiot French rating stuff out of 20?
Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award) @ May 27th 2008 2:40PM
I'm sorry, we're complaining about cutscenes in a CINEMATIC ACTION game now? This is like bitching about Madden keeping a score. Besides, until you pussies dredged through adventure games of old or even Xenogears, you have NOTHING to say in this regard.
SoulBlade @ May 27th 2008 4:06PM
Fid - we're bitching about excessively long cut scenes like 90 minute ones. Chill.
Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award) @ May 27th 2008 4:12PM
Isn't that marked still as a rumor? Plus, the ending of MGS2 was nearly 90 minutes...
SoulBlade @ May 27th 2008 4:41PM
Yea - endings I guess can get away with it since the gamer is done, but even then... sitting through it just doesn't work for some of us. I guess if you can pause it and such. I'll admit I don't know the extent of the features, but if the game provided a video library option where you could watch the unlocked long cut scenes like a video w/ FF,RW,etc. then it could be cool.
But what I just don't like is playing a game - really getting into it - loving the gameplay, and then boom... you're hit with a long cut scene that takes you out of your rhythm. The story is cool, but I don't know how many gamers will actually sit through 90 minutes of it if the rumor yields true.
SoulBlade @ May 27th 2008 4:45PM
Well, according to Dan in a later post to this article, the 90 minute cutscene rumor was debunked. So there's hope after all.
Snipermike @ May 27th 2008 1:46PM
Even A Blind Squirrel Finds A Nut Every Now And Then
deadpool @ May 27th 2008 1:50PM
Five and Four Make Sausage Me Luxembourg Paella.
Hyams @ May 27th 2008 1:53PM
What The Hell Are You Talking About?
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ May 27th 2008 1:59PM
....
Ya lost me.
FOXHOUND @ May 27th 2008 2:26PM
Something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go - I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... suddenly there was intense light all around me - and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me?
LaughingTarget @ May 27th 2008 2:35PM
You got hit in the face with a basketball.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ May 27th 2008 2:40PM
you were abducted and buttraped by aliens.
Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award) @ May 27th 2008 2:41PM
Foxhound, You have to destroy the wall south of where you met Baker. Fission Mailed.
Hyams @ May 27th 2008 3:07PM
Foxhound, I was a North American Fall Webworm in my past life. Those were the good old days... What were you in your former life?
Korova @ May 27th 2008 4:27PM
Even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day.
Sam406 @ May 27th 2008 4:29PM
Turn the computer off right now!
The mission is a failure! Cut the power right now!
Don't worry, it's a game! It's a game just like usual.
Chameleon @ May 27th 2008 4:32PM
"You got hit in the face with a basketball."
i nearly fell out of my chair, kudos sir ....
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arrrgh @ May 27th 2008 1:48PM
This game looks amazing, but if the romoured 90min cutscenes are true, my attention span will end it :P
Arturis @ May 27th 2008 2:23PM
They are not true
http://www.omgmetalgear.com/article/82153/90-minute-cutscenes-in-mgs4-i-dont-think-so/
el serpiente @ May 27th 2008 3:49PM
Oh, but you can count on the buttbox boys bringing it up over and over and over and over...
The Sound @ May 27th 2008 1:49PM
I'm glad POM Dutch is the honest one....
This game could be a '10' out of '10', but I think 9.6 seems more likely a score for any game, and makes it seem like the hype wasn't too bad.
Though haven't all MGS games for consoles received really good, '9' or '90' + scores?
Hyams @ May 27th 2008 1:50PM
I really can't wait for this game.
4.5 @ May 27th 2008 2:26PM
I think you can.
deadpool @ May 27th 2008 2:36PM
easy 4.5. easy.
Hyams @ May 27th 2008 3:09PM
No really. I can't. That's why I'm spending my spare time building a time machine, so that I'll be able to play it sooner. Although, at the rate I'm making it, it won't be finished until June 13, making the whole endeavor pointless.
browntown @ May 27th 2008 1:50PM
This game is gushing with movie qualoty productions, this game is going to be an experience. Can't wait. This game wil deserve all the scores it gets, unlike gta4. GTA was a great game, but i don't think it deserved all those 10's, it was flawed, but i did love it.
baby sea tuna @ May 27th 2008 2:05PM
Like the other MGS games weren't flawed?
Wii60Warrior @ May 27th 2008 1:52PM
LOL...so it begins...
I bet theres gonna be like 100 parts for ONE single cutscene on Youtube...ridiculous.
Should make for a good movie though
Sang @ May 27th 2008 2:02PM
No, it wouldn't. Because the first three were games we forgave their ludicrous plots and melodramatic voice acting. If this, or any of the past, game were released as a 15 hour movie, it'd mocked and scorned.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ May 27th 2008 2:04PM
Have a point there. MGS would be a horrible movie.
Wii60Warrior @ May 27th 2008 2:18PM
Clarification Needed: I meant in terms of length...not content.
MGS as a series isn't exactly the greatest story of all time. Its more like a bunch of random ass mind fucks that exist for no reason at except to confuse people.
Sang @ May 27th 2008 3:10PM
Well, some of those mind fucks were pretty cool. I mean, a psycho AND a mantis? Amen, brotha'.
mas @ May 27th 2008 2:02PM
What???? The Official Playstation Magazine gave A PS3 exclusive a perfect 10 lol....Come on now thats like running round giving myself a perfect 10 of course i think im awesome cause im me There never has been a good MG game since the days of nintendo and never will be a good MGS game as long as they on the playstion
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ May 27th 2008 2:07PM
AAAH SHIT
RUN FUCKER RUN!!!!!!!!
THE MGS FANBOYS ARE GONNA SKIN YOU ALIVE!!!
baby sea tuna @ May 27th 2008 2:07PM
But you *are* awesome. Or, you would be if you learned about the wonders of punctuation...