Metal Gear solid: Portable Ops did a great job in bringing the Metal Gear Solid franchise to the PlayStation Portable. The game made most use of the PSP’s hardware and software capabilities to deliver one of the best games ever on the PSP.
A year later, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops + was released, not exactly as a sequel, but as an expansion. It took the already existing features of MGS: Portable Ops and improvised. After many additions and subtractions, Portable Ops + was released.
The expansion was meant to add to what the gameplay is, and make it more pleasurable to play. Tons of new features were added to Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus, such as Boss Rush mode, which lets you take on the entire bosses one after the other. Then there’s infinity mission, which puts snake in randomly generated missions on different levels, each with their own set of objectives to complete, getting progressively more difficult.
The good thing about this is that players can quickly go through multiple locations and get lots of items, or even soldiers, as Portable Ops plus, unlike the original portable ops, lets you expand your army to up to 200 soldiers, and that number can be filled up with the soldiers from the original game. The army can be divided into four- Medics, Technicians, Spies and your personal four-man team. Since each team can only have up to eight members, this encourages players to scout for the best available in each team on a regular basis.
The downside to this expansion is that many features, some really good ones; from the original Portable ops have been removed. The ops can use experience points gained to level up their skills, which poses a problem in multiplayer, as hardcore mgs gamers will have a clear advantage over other casual gamers. This can be overcome, but is still a sort of hindrance, as players can permanently lose their character to others in a multiplayer game.
The game is probably on the must-buy list for all those MGS fans out there, but not for others. The original game was leaps better, and more fun to play. The changes that this expansion makes could have easily been implemented as a downloadable patch, but $20 for it just isn’t worth it.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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