Metal Gear Survive Reviews
Has flickers of brilliance, but the painfully slow and gruelling survival simulation routinely snuffs them out.
Thanks to overbearing hunger and thirst systems, unintelligent enemy AI, and an utterly forgettable story, Metal Gear Survive is the worst game in the series yet.
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.
Metal Gear's first post-Kojima outing plays fast and loose with the formula, with results that are equal parts brilliant and baffling.
A decent survival game with a rewarding, if uninspired, grind to its resource collecting and base management.
Metal Gear Survive has plenty to do, but the story mode is a dud and the endgame loops don't hold up
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.
Metal Gear Survive's punishing systems drag down what could have been a good survival game
Metal Gear Survive is both a bad survival game and a bad Metal Gear game.
Metal Gear Survive's team managed to make a game both bad to play and fascinating to examine. Survive finds itself in small moments but is lost to grinding, mindless gameplay.
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.
Most of the time, it's a game that goes out of its way to be repetitive, frustrating and dull.
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.
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.
If it had not been called Metal Gear Survive, this survival game would have been received in another way. However, many of the questionable decisions such as micropayments or permanent connection tarnish a remarkable gameplay based on The Phantom Pain.
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Metal Gear Survive offers some ideas in a way that does not fit into survival games, such as forcing the player to open the main menu every minute to follow the level of hunger and thirst, and enter into conversations that are worth nothing but wasting time and talking to a completely fictional story will not affect anyone like the main series And limited AI for the enemies, but in contrast there were ideas implemented excellently such as clouds of dust that provided an exciting atmosphere, and the complexity of the system.
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'Metal Gear Survive' turns survivalism into a theater of the absurd
Metal Gear Survive is a good survival game that need some balancing. An interesting good spin-off with is own dignity.
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"Metal Gear Survive" adds confusing, tedious busywork - and zombies - to the franchise.
It's an interesting and wholly engrossing exercise in survival that I enjoyed more with every hour that passed. Don't go into the game looking for any sort of Metal Gear gratification, and you'll come out relatively pleased with what's on offer.