All five parts of my feature-length review/playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3. Featuring sketches, guests, opinions, Life, the Universe and Everything.

The above player should play all of them in order and you can change between them using the guide. Direct links for mixing and matching at your leisure:

I’ve been wanting to do a video review since before my text review of MGS4 was published and Metal Gear seemed like the perfect foil. I’ve been planning out the scenes as I was writing the review and, as time passed without biting the bullet and going ahead with production, I kept story-boarding again and again.

This is probably why I originally envisioned the video as a normal fifteen-minutes-tops review and ended up with this personal epic. There were so many ideas I just couldn’t bear to cut, which inflated the project to five different parts, one for each of MGS’ acts.

Even when shooting started however, I thought I’d wrap the shoot, edit and publish the thing in less than a week.

Ha!

Anyway, there is a bit of drama surrounding my inaugural video review (that is actually a playthrough) but, long story short, we ended up with this gargantuan critique, that has a combined runtime of one hour, twenty minutes. I love it.

It’s still shorter than MGS4′s ending cutscene.

Trailer:

Behind the Scenes: