From: SHINE GET 64 | #008
yeah it's easily the 2nd best Metal Gear.
See, the problem with this opinion isn't that you think PW is a good game.
It's that you think it's better than THREE other real MGS games. That's just ridiculous.
From: ZFS | #017
You spend much less time watching cutscenes than in any other game in the series
This doesn't mean the game is more gameplay-driven.
The thing that makes MGS an amazing series and a timeless classic of the video game medium as a whole is how you can play the game for the first time, and you get this epic 15 hour cinematic experience, and then you can play it again, skip cutscenes, and get a really crazy deep 5 hour arcade action experience. It's a best of both worlds philosophy that, as far as I have seen, only MGS has done successfully.
PW doesn't use that philosophy at all. It breaks up the pacing of the story with all these extra time-consuming missions that add nothing, and you have no reason to replay the game once you're done, because without the story, only the super simplistic and boring and repetitive AI and level design is left.
In that sense, PW's gameplay is far less important to the game than the main MGS games.
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