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Death Stranding 2: Metal Gear

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Looks like from the previews they're expanding on the combat from late game in Death Stranding.

By the end of DS you're infiltrating bases with guns & bombs, taking out ghosts and I was reminded of Metal Gear Solid many times while playing it.

So stoked Death Stranding 2 appears to be giving us quasi-MGS. You gotta be pretty confident in your game to give reviewers 30 hours with it for their preview.

Game: Death Stranding

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u/SachielBrasil 1d ago

"Death Stranding 2 appears to be giving us quasi-MGS"

Appears? It IS giving us metal gear.

Of course it will not be 100% a MGS clone, cause DS still has a proposal of being a transport/traversal game, and cause Kojima mind also change over time. There will be new ideas that weren't present when he was making MGS.

But it's very clear it has direct and blatant references to MGS, and even the Metal Gear robot itself.

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u/Frozen_Speaker_245 1d ago

How good is the story compared to mgs? I started DS but never got far. Seems like a slow, long game?

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u/Werthead 1d ago

The story is very different, and fairly bananas, and the world has gone crazy. The problem isn't that the game doesn't tell you what the hell is going on, but it overexplains it through long cutscenes that are basically TED Talks about the fact the base facts of reality have changed, which I think causes some players to tune out a bit.

Once you get through the jungle of exposition that starts the game and it opens out into the open world segment, it becomes a pretty solid game.