MGS2 has such a painfully bad plot that I broke my controller in anger.
SPOILERS AHEAD, but then again the plot is so retarded you may do well going in prepared:
-Snake buggers off and gets replaced by whiny ass Raiden after an hour of play with no explanation at all
-it turns out that the entire human genome project was a hoax, the explanation "well have you ever COUNTED the genetic code?", sweet-crap, I haven't visited Taiwan that doesn't mean you can just say it's a made up country. This is up there is fake moon landings and x-files. This was all apparently an attempt to see how our genes/memes determine who we are but it comes across as just the ramblings of a stoner with a pre-high school knowledge of genetics.
-Right so there is a third clone, his name is Solidus, his is inexplicably older than Snake and... he was the President of the United States. WTF!!! Oh yeah, and democracy is fake, yeah, President's are elected by some secret society called The Patriots who somehow thought that a cloned mercenary super-soldier would make the perfect puppet-leader, who to spite looking over 65 was only born 30 years ago! More super-stupid than super-secret.
-There are also a whole load of fuctard stupid conspiracy theories like The Patriots control the internet, scientific journals as well as every official power in the world and can manipulate the mass media to suite any agenda, autonomously and instantaneously. That is so ridiculous such a machine could not be built even if everyone co-operated completely with it.
-BTW this was all told to Raiden by a 10 year old girl while she also says that she designed the code for this super computer that controls the world. I thought this was all some sick joke by Kojima, I kept wondering 'Where is the real game, this can't be it!'
-Raiden's back story is just about as engaging and interesting as a PBS commercial, I still wish he would feck off and die so I can play as Snake. "I was a child soldier" gee with all the power of the PS2 they decide to illustrate this through a grainy slide show and audio monologue, talk about un-engaging?
-It turns out that Otacon had sex with his mom, that doesn't creep me out at all nor make the game as awkward watching porn with my extended family
-Dead Cell is like the fat tribute band to Foxhound who is missing a few members and while their imitation is poor, their original work is pathetic.
-the plot is vauge and wandering, you arrive on this rig with no clue at all and no clear objective and is like that till this stereotypical black cop tells you to go on this bomb hunting quest. 'Is this really his Metal Gear' I asked.
-the oil-rig itself is as bland as a shopping mall, good graphics for 2001 the styling is like some Michael Bay movie.
-most of the plot is just read out to you in talking head cutscenes in what has the be the dictionary definition of basal exposition only this is not to lead onto a story-based gameplay but this is simply to lead to an action sequence then another cutscene with yet more monologuing
-I'd be fine with Raiden being gay, but he clearly has a girlfriend, that makes him worse, a mincing pussy who whines to his girlfriend like a bitchy emo teenager on his cellphone very time I use the Codec. How many people have asked the voice actor of Raiden to record answer phone messages? The correct answer is none, with David Hayter's Solid Snake voice being the most popular voice part of our time.
The gameplay was so messed up I thought the entire development team must have been trying deliberately to kill the franchise:
-you spend an entire level running around naked, unarmed and clutching your genitals.
-and the President fondled Raiden's balls after mistaking him for a woman
-one of the bosses just shoots at you from behind the most shameless invisible wall in gaming history. I mean is is a 30 by 40 foot room and she deflects my bullets, so of course I'm gonna try hand to hand combat but NO!! Instead you are just supposed to run around in circles for five minutes till a cutscene has Snake rescue me and again I wish I was not stuck with this pathetic character.
-Another boss fight had you running around spraying bombs with a fire extinguisher, it was just ridiculous. I mean the second boss in MGS1 was a brooding shaman in an M1 tank.
- 7 lame boss fights in MGS2 compared to the 11 classics in MGS (not including the 4 "boss rooms" where Snake is forced to fight guards in special circumstances)
-half the gameplay is almost a DIRECT COPY of MGS1 and even admits as much in the ending
-the new metal gear Rays are easier to kill than the Gekkos in MGS4
-you get a samurai sword yet only have 5 minutes of actual gameplay to use it (queue the hour long cutscene) before the game is over, no you don't get it on the next playthrough.
-Enemy AI is woefully shite. You feel bad for shooting them as it's like shooting geriatrics they are so stupid.
-the stealth is a joke, it is impossible to hide and sneak past the enemy with the terrible camera so the tranq from 100 feet is the usual response.
In my opinion, THE WORST GAME OF IT'S GENERATION!!! and I dare anyone to say otherwise, and don't say graphics or complex story (Complex is not the same as good), it was a complete turkey.
