Metal Gear Survive Reviews

Metal Gear Survive is ranked in the 17th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10.0
May 22, 2018

Metal Gear Survive reveals itself to be a decent title if you're willing to forgive the litany of things it does wrong. The concept is solid, even if the characters can't deliver the tale appropriately. The sneaking and quick item construction elements slightly make up for a weak combat system that makes killing Wanderers a chore. The base-building and crafting is fine, but the other survival elements are overdone to the point of tedium. It isn't a great survival game, and it's not something that Metal Gear fans would flock to, making it a title that can be best described as niche.

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6 / 10.0
Mar 7, 2018

It all boils down to whether or not you should buy the game. And I think that’s the worst part about it, is that there’s really no real reason to buy it. There are many more zombie shooter survival games out there that does this a whole lot better. Why buy Metal Gear Survive?

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Andy Kelly
Top Critic
59 / 100
Feb 26, 2018

Has flickers of brilliance, but the painfully slow and gruelling survival simulation routinely snuffs them out.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 1, 2018

There's a weird, enjoyable story in Metal Gear Survive for players who make it past the game's grueling opening hours, and there are flashes of a great survival game. But with a threadbare connection to the 30-year history of Metal Gear and a comparatively shallow game made in the shadow of The Phantom Pain, it's hard to recommend enduring the whole thing.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2018

Most of you have probably already made up your mind about Metal Gear Survive. I think Survive has some redeeming qualities and, had it focused firmly on its multiplayer, I may have enjoyed the experience more. As it stands, there are just so many better titles in the survival genre, it's hard to recommend this game to anybody. I'm sad to say that Metal Gear Survive has squeezed any ounce of hope I had for this series I only recently got into.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 5, 2018

Not Quite Hitting The Mark

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5.5 / 10.0
Feb 25, 2018

if we ignore all this, the game contains a very good idea, yes it needs some final technical touches that might make it better but that never prevents it was enjoyable and offer you a different and new experience, all the mistakes we have encountered and the problems that we have encountered can be ignored and repaired through updates to balance enemies and consume resources and others, we've seen a lot of games that return from death and that change from its format after a period of release

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 11, 2018

Metal Gear Survive rings hollow, a vapid facsimile of a once-great franchise undone by Konami's fixation with the almighty dollar.

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5.5 / 10.0
Feb 27, 2018

Verdict Building off the foundation of Metal Gear Solid V, Metal Gear Survive had some potential that was mostly squandered, though still far from being an awful game. The co-op missions with friends can be fun and the game itself performs well enough, but the tedious structure of the game and the inclusion of awful microtransactions make Metal Gear Survive one you might want to think about skipping.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 9, 2018

the best chance of survival that this game has, is by throwing it in as a PlayStation Plus/Games with Gold title later down the line.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 1, 2018

Though it's not totally devoid of positives, Metal Gear Survive suffers the curse of being wholly unremarkable in pretty much every way. Bland survival gameplay, unoriginal ideas and unresponsive melee combat make for a tedious experience. Metal Gear Survive is certainly a functional game, but someone forgot to add the "fun".

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
5 / 10
Feb 26, 2018

Not the Metal Gear fans will be used to in terms of either quality or action. But despite a few interesting highlights, it's just too boring to get very angry about.

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5 / 10
Feb 24, 2018

Metal Gear Survive's punishing systems drag down what could have been a good survival game

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5 / 10.0
Feb 24, 2018

Metal Gear Survive should have been a free-to-play game just like Grasshopper's Let it Die or an actual Metal Gear release. It doesn't accomplish either aim.

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5 / 10.0
Mar 9, 2018

Metal Gear Survive is alright. It strikes such an almost perfect balance between mind-numbing tedium and rage-tinted fun that if you're willing to let it take you, there's a very compelling experience under all the brown and grey textures - just don't expect it to do justice to the franchise under which it shuffles.

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GameMAG
Vadimeys
Top Critic
5 / 10
Mar 9, 2018

Instead of a great cooperative action game we got a dull project about monotonous shooting at stupid enemies during base defense. What a sad finale of Metal Gear series.

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Feb 23, 2018

Metal Gear Survive is a brave move for Konami and a decent survival game – it's just not particularly fun. If you like the more abrasive side of the medium, give it a go. Everyone else should probably stay away…

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Daily Dot
Top Critic
Feb 23, 2018

There are intimations of an interesting story in Metal Gear Survive, as well as a handful of creative moments within the FOX Engine. But overall, the game feels incredibly average, and seeing it through to the end quickly becomes a chore.

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5 / 10.0
Feb 28, 2018

Metal Gear Survive is a good idea that finds itself crippled by an overwhelming mob of bad ideas. It's interesting but ultimately handicapped by a ruthless application of unnecessarily brutal constraints that serves to diminish what should have been a fascinating spin-off.

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Feb 27, 2018

"Metal Gear Survive" adds confusing, tedious busywork - and zombies - to the franchise.

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