Metal Gear Survive Reviews
So much of Metal Gear Survive is repeating the same thing over and over again in single- and multiplayer. Defending the same points from the same zombies. Exploring the same zones for the same materials. Mining the same resources for the same small amounts of gear. But after learning the ropes and learning to set your own personal goals within that loop, there's an odd comfort in the formula, and I can see myself returning to expand my end-game base out of my own completionist urges. Survive might not compare well to the tactical espionage action that's defined the Metal Gear series we know and love, but its oddly hit-or-miss combo of some solid old ideas and some clumsy new ones has at least some appeal.
The major problem of this game is having on its title the name of Metal Gear. Seems like It has nothing to do with the franchise and while it has some good ideas as game in the end the final product it's disappointing.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
An uncanny addition to the Metal Gear franchise, Metal Gear Survive survives as a survival game but doesn't deliver as a Metal Gear game.
Fans of survival games may like the Metal Gear Survive for it's good action and stealth elements. But for those that loved Kojima's Metal Gear games Metal Gear Survive won't offer anything interesting.
Review in Persian | Read full review
The hardcore fans are likely to reject the not amazing story of Metal Gear Survive, however, the gameplay is exactly what you might expect from Metal Gear franchise – the military action and the possibility of stealth. Add the intense pace of the second half of the game and the enjoyable bosses and you'll end up with a slightly above average, if repetitive, title.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
The concept of Metal Gear Survive works, but some annoying mechanics and the soullessness diminish the fun.
Review in German | Read full review
_____________________ “I expected some microtransactions, but it's an exceptionally greasy implementation.
Metal Gear Survive has some really interesting elements, yet comes across as shallow in some areas.
Metal Gear Survive has plenty to do, but the story mode is a dud and the endgame loops don't hold up
With some tweaks and changes, Survive could be great, but as it stands, it's just good.
It would be easy to write off Metal Gear Survive.
It's nothing more or less than fine.
While standing on the ground played by Metal Gear Solid V, Survive offers a different take on the series. A bold one nonetheless, but not as unique as we expect.
Review in Swedish | Read full review
This Metal Gear spin-off surprisingly sets itself between a hardcore survival and a 3D tower-defense game, which will hardly satisfy most gamers. If you survive the first ruthless hours, you could realize Metal Gear Survive's true potential, delivering a long and tough survival experience. Unfortunately, Konami's greed for micro-transactions break the game's balance and is way too prominent to appear as a small feature.
Review in French | Read full review
A Metal Gear game in name only, Survive is a decent – though often frustrating - survival game with a few unique tricks up its sleeve. While the Metal Gear name brings with it a certain weight of expectation, as long as you don't go in expecting Metal Gear Solid 6, you'll be fine.
Fans of classic Metal Gear games will probably find little of interest here; their overall impressions of the game ought to be mediocre – Survive simply fails to captivate. The magical atmosphere known from Snake’s adventures is nowhere to be found. However, the new MGS should appeal to enthusiasts of survival – there’s a lot of it here. If you like exploration, gathering and crafting, give it a shot.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Metal Gear Survive feels like a prototype, an idea on paper that was quickly turned into a game and strapped to a retail rocket without proper consideration of what the Metal Gear name means to people. Konami has every right to use the IP and FOX Engine tool of course, and frankly there's no reason not to. Kojima didn't make all the Metal Gear games by himself. But this feels like the team dumped a bunch of menu-based systems on top of the mechanics, without figuring out why and how they should all work together. It is like they were looking to other games in the genre for ideas, then adding extra complexity for the sake of standing out a bit. It's part dull, part frustrating, and part utterly confusing. In short, Metal Gear Survive is just another middling survival game, with a name-drop that doesn't do it any favors.
Survive does many things right and wrong but it doesn't deserve to be called a "Metal Gear" game.
For those willing to bear the brunt of its inexcusably poor opening and subsequent first few hours — and can even find it in themselves to excuse the nagging stats requiring a near-constant influx of food and water — Metal Gear Survive does deliver a few good ideas along the way buried beneath its mediocre world and often grind-focused, loot-based item-gathering.
Metal Gear Survive is a mediocre survival game, and that's it. All the great things about the Metal Gear franchise are gone and all you can find here is hour after hour after hour of repetitive survival gameplay. This is how you kill a franchise.
Review in Persian | Read full review