GAMEPLAY

METAL GEAR SURVIVE

It has the feel of a player-made map from Far Cry 2. After the drawn-out tedium of the tutorial phase of the game,

Survive does come out of its shell a little as you fall into the comfortable routine of base-building and materials gathering.

The greatest feature Survive keeps in its sparse arsenal is The Dust, a dangerous zone where the majority of the game’s resource-gathering and zombie-battling action takes place.

The four-player co-op centered around base defence is also quite fun, but these moments of few and far between in this murky quagmire of a game devoid of personality and rife with busywork and tedium.

Metal Gear Survive strikes me as a sign of a series that is systematically having its charm chipped away for reasons beyond the scope of this review.

A definite one to avoid, unless you are particularly prone to masochism.