Basic light and heavy slashing blade attacks slice enemies when you tap the respective buttons, but truly amazing combos emerge when you vary the inputs. Jack the RipperRevengeance's sword-based, two-button combat is powered by Platinum Games' trademark stylish action. The tale is far more streamlined than the titles in the convoluted main series-to its benefit. That said, Revengeance's storyline, like previous Metal Gear Solid games, has its surprises. Story-wise, that's all you'll need to know to avoid enter spoiler territory. He's tasked with protecting an African dignitary travelling in a motorcade, but all hell breaks loose when a rival private military company kidnaps the V.I.P. Sporting a high-frequency energy sword, cybernetics, and a darker demeanor, the new Raiden is a futuristic samurai-like warrior who works for Maverick, a private military company. Raiden-the long-hated, whiney protagonist who replaced series mainstay Solid Snake in the controversial Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty-fronts Revengeance, and he's essentially a different character.

Joe-like sci-fi tech, codec calls, cardboard boxes, unnecessary cleavage, and military themes that give Revengeance the Metal Gear touch. Four years later-an eternity for Metal Gear fans-the game finally arrived on console, but with many changes: There's a new title, Platinum Games took over the development duties from Kojima Productions, and the gameplay lost many of its stealth elements in favor of high-octane, sword-based action. Metal Gear Without The Solid (Snake)Famed video game designer Hideo Kojima first revealed Metal Gear Solid Rising (the game that would become Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) at a Microsoft E3 press conference in 2009-roughly the halfway point in the last console generation's life cycle-when it was billed as Metal Gear Solid: Rising.

Metal gear rising: revengeance