Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops | PlayStation Portable | PSP

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About the Game

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is the first real Metal Gear game on the PSP, unlike the two preceding Metal Gear Ac!d games with turn-based strategy gameplay. It's been six years since the events in Snake Eater .

Story & Setting

Missions themselves range from recon to rescue to demolitions and beyond.

Gameplay & Core Systems

The controls will be familiar to anyone who has played previous console entries in the series. Snake can peek around corners, sneak up behind guards... they even carried over CQC (Close Quarters Combat) from Snake Eater. What really sets Portable Ops apart (aside from being on the PSP) is the pacing, and a few changes to the gameplay mechanics. The ability to play through the game in segments really lends itself to the handheld format. While Snake starts out on his own, he can enlist disgruntled guards, frustrated technicians, stubborn doctors and more.

Standout Features

• Gathering supplies is also essential due to the main new mechanic found in Portable Ops: recruiting.
• These soldiers can be used in your "Sneaking Unit" (the team you take into battle for each mission), or in one of the many support units, with certain soldiers having a more natural talent for certain areas.
• Medical: If you put someone who has medical bonuses in your Medical unit, they can produce rations, help your troops recover faster between missions and more.
• Technicians can create new items for your team, and Spies can steal ammo and give you intel on specific maps, which can open up new side missions or allow you to grab some heavy weaponry.
• Snake: You can only take four troops into a mission, and usually one of them has to be Snake.
• You can only control one character at a time, while the rest of the team hides safely inside boxes (usually right by the entry point).
• On the field, the soldier you use can make a big difference.
• Many times you can totally bypass a building's defenses just by playing as a guard.

Modes & Ways to Play

The game supports multiplayer for up to six player simultaneously, over WiFi Ad Hoc and Infrastructure, with game modes such as Team Death Match, Death Match and Capture Mission.

Player support includes Ad Hoc, Infrastructure, Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS), and Team.