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Metal Gear Online beta test: First impressions

Posted Aug 21, 2007 at 8:19AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Arctic, Beta Testing, Japan, Konami

With Metal Gear Online's beta testing recently commencing over in Japan's PlayStation 3s, we're sure plenty of fans would love to know how the game's looking so far.

With that in mind, we're reporting that NeoGAF Forums member Autumn Thread managed to get his (or her) hands on a beta pass, and was more than happy to debrief the rest of us.

For starters, the pack comes in at 650 MB, with users required to have a Konami ID to log in. There's also character customization based on what we're hearing, which ensures you've got plenty of leeway in how you want your character to look (Mullets ftw). Now, without further ado, here are Autumn Thread's first impressions:

The combat is really f**king cool, there's different lobbies, each named after an MGS character ; Snake, Otacon, Liquid etc (yeah, 95% of the people are in Snake lobby).
It's rather annoying to change to first person mode (L1+triangle) especially when you're fighting people. The box has made a return! It's pretty funny that I managed to kill quite from a cardboard box that totally didn't fit in with the environment.
There are only two maps in the beta. One looks like the arctic and the other is something like the middle east that we see in the trailers and gameplay footage.
Voice chat is supported as well as typing. To bring up chat window is left or right on the d-pad.
To change to the position on your back once laying down is triangle, tapping triangle and holding the joystick in whatever direction will allow you to roll in that said direction.
Grenades are cool, so are stun knifes.
No slow down, solid frame rate.
The camera control can be customised in the options menu, at first it was a pain. You can invert etc and if you so wish, have it player controlled entirely.
Difficulty wise, it's not hard to get the hang of at all. It took a bit of 'mashing' to find out how to roll onto the back of your character
The visuals are 'nice' but they seem to be a bit unpolished right now. I can't imagine MGO seeing the same presentation as MGS4 (I guess due to the restrictions that come with an online game?) but yeah, still very very nice. The character models are very detailed too.
There are stat rankings I think (I haven't really looked too much into it but looking at a screenshot I took, i see alot of 0000's next to alot of the players names followed by emblems). More interesting is the way you can customise how your character performs. Think of it something like the talent system in WoW I guess, you can alter how fast you run, skill with certain weapons and whatnot.
Some interesting things happened in a match I hosted. For one, I saw the power of the claymore first hand, people go flying, whilst burning. It's a really nice looking explosion.
This isn't something related to the game mechanics or whatever but some crazy ass player joined my game and actually killed people by sneaking up on them, strangling them until they were blacked out (you have an oxygen metre under the health bar) and then would proceed to head shot them. Crazy.

That's a rough idea of how MGO's looking so far in Japan. Check back as more features are discovered.

Via NeoGAF

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Pics straight from the Beta:

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# Claymore video... — Guest 2007-08-21 11:20

Here's a little clip of the claymore mine in action straight from the beta.

# ***** I forgot the link... — Guest 2007-08-21 11:27

http://www.nitroid.com/video/mgo_video01.avi

# 1 — Guest 2007-08-21 11:36

Hes right! Xbox 360 is trash. It break horrible system wast of *****ing money! PS3 is for the win!

# wow...shameful — Guest 2007-08-21 12:34

why is it that almost EVERY BETA'S INFO IS RELEASED ON THE WEB?

isn't in the beta agreement to NOT do wat this guy is doing?

# lol — Guest 2007-08-21 14:57

Since when has any1 cared about rules.

# proxy — Guest 2007-08-21 22:54

anybody tried it?

# Although... — Guest 2007-08-22 00:01

I don't know for sure, it seems like it wouldn't work because it requires a unique logon ID and password. Someone could try, but I doubt it would work.

# they should — Guest 2007-08-22 00:10

make it that therers only a certain amount of spaces on a server

# where..............?????????? — Guest 2007-08-22 04:57

where can i get my hands on this beta?? can anyone mail it to me ill pay!!!!!!!$$$$$ $

# :'( — Guest 2007-08-22 05:01

I want to play! :'(

# i need this in the us — Guest 2007-08-22 12:39

is this in us ps3s

# This Beta is Japanese Only... — Guest 2007-08-22 13:29

Anyways here are some more pics:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u129/COORIO/snipelol.jpg

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http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u129/COORIO/claymore-1.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u129/COORIO/backthing.jpg"

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