Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1151 Ratings

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  1. Ibanez89
    Feb 14, 2014
    3
    This game would have been a whole lot better if there was a better blocking system.
    All you can do is parry and even then its pretty hard when you have heaps of enemies attacking you at the same time. Due to this, you are forced to run away and kite them 70% of the time which to me, kills the momentum and self satisfaction of a relentless combo. This also makes balance an issue as well,    This game would have been a whole lot better if there was a better blocking system.
    All you can do is parry and even then its pretty hard when you have heaps of enemies attacking you at the same time. Due to this, you are forced to run away and kite them 70% of the time which to me, kills the momentum and self satisfaction of a relentless combo. This also makes balance an issue as well, since it is just way too difficult to take on more than 2 enemies with minimal defense.
    Also I am pretty sure blade mode is broken for pc because at points I saw the sword not doing anything up close.
    Story is decent, dialogue isn't so much.
    I guess I should give this more of a chance, but at this stage I wouldn't say its great, yet not terrible either.
    End rant.    … Expand
  2. Sciffer2012
    Jan 28, 2014
    1
    A slow paced gameplay for a Beat-Them-All, not a buy.

    I felt while playing that the developper were unhappy to kill MGS style, and where going to give player what they actually enjoy in a game that is not what they were use to. I played on Pc with an Xbox controller, and had actually issue with it right at the start, This game has been port but not intended to feel like a beat them all    A slow paced gameplay for a Beat-Them-All, not a buy.

    I felt while playing that the developper were unhappy to kill MGS style, and where going to give player what they actually enjoy in a game that is not what they were use to. I played on Pc with an Xbox controller, and had actually issue with it right at the start, This game has been port but not intended to feel like a beat them all to met.

    Fighting has actually been the first issue, you are not playing an agile character, so you need to be sure of what you intend to do in any situation because there's not much movement option you can use to move your ass out of a bad situation.

    Camera has been the second one, the camera is actually too close of your character which will make you loose him in close space and make you unable to look around you when you switch to blade mode. Obligation for you to use target mode to set this to a better level.

    To complete, this game has some nice feature and some great idea had been re-use from MGS but the gameplay really put this game way down in my list of favorite beat-them-all, Even if the game is affordable, really feel like a bad one.... Can't exit while on Title Screen... Really !?    … Expand
  3. Jools86
    Mar 8, 2014
    2
    I have to give this a 2 as there is no strategic mechanic built into this game. Pure luck. I have finsihed Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and I can tell you there is no learning curve in this game. No block, just an absurd parry which doesn't work half the time.

    Monsoon is where I gave up FYI.
  4. Viandante
    Jan 16, 2014
    1
    THIS SUCKS ON SO MANY LEVELS IT HURTS MY FEELINGS[

    Forget Metal Gear. I started this game with an open mind, knowing it wasn't the tactical game other MGs are, but I immediately felt a disturbance in the force. Let's begin... PC PORT When the game opened, a window greeted me. "Oh, it must be 1999," I thought, "maybe I opened my SNES emulator!". Then I realized it was my latest    THIS SUCKS ON SO MANY LEVELS IT HURTS MY FEELINGS[

    Forget Metal Gear. I started this game with an open mind, knowing it wasn't the tactical game other MGs are, but I immediately felt a disturbance in the force. Let's begin...

    PC PORT
    When the game opened, a window greeted me. "Oh, it must be 1999," I thought, "maybe I opened my SNES emulator!".
    Then I realized it was my latest purchase, and I hurried to the customize menu.
    That's when things began to go wrong.
    It doesn't feature the resolution I play with, which is 1920x1200, so I had to play a 1920x1080 windowed. There are indie games that are more flexible than this one.
    In pain and hurt by this, I start the game.

    FIRST BLOOD
    After a slow tutorial you learn the game has basically two buttons you must smash to go ahead, plus an "activate for effortless movements" button where you don't have to do **** to go over obstacles and a "stop time and cut sh*t" button that lets you sushi up your enemies.
    I was thinking "This game f-ing plays itself". But I didn't know it got worse.

    I started a mission and - behold! - smashing buttons on my controller got the job done.
    I tried to parry, but it was the same key as the hit button. I have a xBox controller: I have 10 keys I can press and you force me to use the same button for hitting and parrying. Nice job! I don't feel like an idiot at all, having to use just a couple of buttons to play the game.

    THE F- YOU CAMERA
    The camera earned its own section. You can rotate it BUT IT ALSO FOLLOWS YOU.
    That means that if you are trying to fight, let's say, a boss that moves fast, you may center the camera on him while you dodge his attacks just to see it move away, pointing to you.
    It doesn't care if you need to know where your deadly enemy is, why would you?

    Dark Souls has been out for so much time one would hope people learned how to do a decent third person action game.

    LEVEL DESIGN
    The level design is plain. Just plain. Follow the road, don't explore too much (or we will put an invisible wall, just to remind 2014 is here but nothing changed, mofo), just go straight ahead.
    Really nothing to say here.

    CUTSCENES
    When you realize how many cutscenes there are just in the first hour of game you'll this game plays itself.
    That's the pattern: go ahead, kill a couple of minions, now kill a bigger one, CUTSCENE, walk 20 meters, CUTSCENE, ninjarun 40 meters, hit a guy, CUTSCENE.
    It's worse than the other Metal Gear games. Kojima, write a movie already!

    THIS GAME PLAYS ITSELF
    Under 3 combat buttons - check!
    "Press me to do everything while chasing enemies" button - check!
    Refill life when killing even stupid minion - check!

    And just when you think it can't get worse, someone over your codec goes "Yo Raiden, did you know you can SCAN THE AREA AND KNOW WHERE ENEMIES ARE, EVEN BEHIND WALLS? AND DID YOU KNOW THAT SCAN REVEALS WHAT YOU CAN CUT?" and just surprises you. The game just stopped being a game and started being a... don't know. I don't really know.

    IS THERE ANYTHING GOOD?
    The graphics are great, sounds are great as well.

    CONCLUSION
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. I bought it because I wanted to let Kojima & Co. know there is a market for pc games, and because I'm a Metal Gear **** But if I could travel back in time, instead of killing Hitler or warn my young self about that motorbike accident that would shatter my arm I would slap myself every time I was thinking about buying it.

    Seriously guys, go do drugs instead, it's a more intelligent choice.    … Expand
  5. Bad_Andy
    Jan 13, 2014
    1
    terrible writing, boring plot, bad characters, all twitch combat no strategy. The graphics are pretty but this is probably one of the worst games I've played recently.
  6. Indissentient
    Jan 11, 2014
    0
    Camera automatically steers away from the enemies to show you low-res textures on the wall (even when I manually control camera with my mouse, it still screws me over because returning the camera back onto the enemy takes time in which enemy delivers the blow). Camera has negative acceleration for no reason whatsoever.
    Parrying mechanic completely counter-intuitive. It requires conscious    Camera automatically steers away from the enemies to show you low-res textures on the wall (even when I manually control camera with my mouse, it still screws me over because returning the camera back onto the enemy takes time in which enemy delivers the blow). Camera has negative acceleration for no reason whatsoever.
    Parrying mechanic completely counter-intuitive. It requires conscious effort to wait for attack and then release direction keys, press them again and press attack button to parry, which can't be performed by reflexes and breaks the flow of the game.
    What made me drop this game is difficulty spike at blade wolf and complete lack of checkpoints in that fight on top of that.
    Then, blade mode. Why do I have to use WASD to aim? Well, because with gamepads you can't use right stick and attack at the same time. BUT I'M PLAYING ON PC WITH A KEYBOARD AND MOUSE.
    This game screws over so many important details that it negates anything good that there is about it.    … Expand
  7. jaredmergel
    Jan 15, 2014
    1
    Some of the worst controls I have ever used. Camera is all over the place. Overall Physics suck. Feels like it was made by high school students knowledge. Waste of my money.
  8. NikKotovski
    Jan 9, 2014
    4
    The graphics is lame, the physics is even lamer. The battle here is not about combos, it's about clicking right and left button a zillion times. So it's lame too. And even movement here is lame, thanks to the automatic obstacle overcoming system. So basically all the gameplay in this game ends up in pressing WSAD and 2 mouse buttons. And the character does everything for you. What's theThe graphics is lame, the physics is even lamer. The battle here is not about combos, it's about clicking right and left button a zillion times. So it's lame too. And even movement here is lame, thanks to the automatic obstacle overcoming system. So basically all the gameplay in this game ends up in pressing WSAD and 2 mouse buttons. And the character does everything for you. What's the point? Where's the gameplay?
    But even that was not the worst part for me. What made me quit this game is that I had to kite mad kicking cow-robots in the very beginning of the first chapter, 5 minutes each. Is it a fighting or what? I always thought that fightings are about doing combos and dodging enemy attacks, not running around enemies and hitting them from time to time for hours. This is not interesting at all!
    The only good thing about this game are cutscenes. They are really cool. But this is a game, not a movie. So IMHO it's not worth wasting time and money.    … Expand
  9. WestLil0
    Jan 9, 2015
    0
    If you like a lot of slash and run, buy this game. Because it doesn't have anything else going for it. It is quintessential Japanese a la Godzilla destroys Tokyo. Very hokey and cheesy for sure. No plot and definitely not worth it. Originally designed for PS, the PC controls are very difficult to handle and certainly detract even more, if you do enjoy this kind of game. Not at all like theIf you like a lot of slash and run, buy this game. Because it doesn't have anything else going for it. It is quintessential Japanese a la Godzilla destroys Tokyo. Very hokey and cheesy for sure. No plot and definitely not worth it. Originally designed for PS, the PC controls are very difficult to handle and certainly detract even more, if you do enjoy this kind of game. Not at all like the earlier versions of Metal Gear (I particularly enjoyed Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeros even if it was a bit short. The side missions made it worthwhile). But this Metal Gear...I say bypass it! I spent my money, take my advice. Don't spend yours.… Expand
  10. miked007
    Jan 12, 2014
    2
    I will give the game a 2 because the graphics are very good, as far as having anything to do with metal gear as I recall it , it surely doesnt. This game is nothing more than devil may cry right down to the backstreet boy looking character with cyborgs instead of demons, just another linear run through hack and slash pos, at least DMC had way cooler upgrades and skills. There is no stealthI will give the game a 2 because the graphics are very good, as far as having anything to do with metal gear as I recall it , it surely doesnt. This game is nothing more than devil may cry right down to the backstreet boy looking character with cyborgs instead of demons, just another linear run through hack and slash pos, at least DMC had way cooler upgrades and skills. There is no stealth play at all, you are in approx 2025 ad running about with a sword hack and slashing cyborgs, lol downright pathetic and a slap in the face to the name metal gear, in short if you like games like devil may cry (not that it was a bad game itself) you may like this game, if you are a fan of the metal gear series and the stealth killing, planning, and having to think to play a game, look elsewhere this is not that game anymore, dumbed down to the core.… Expand
  11. Tessara_Vejgan
    Mar 1, 2014
    3
    Pretty boring game with a lame story. You basically run around slicing people and thats it. Camera angles are disastrous and you cant lock on to enemies making the fights frustrating specially against bosses and parrying doesn't seem to work either.
  12. zuppadipini
    Oct 23, 2017
    0
    +finisce
    -sistema di controllo orribile soprattutto la scivolata a volte attacca a volte resta ferma a colpire il vuoto come se avessi premuto il tasto di attacco e poi usare le granate e il lanciarazzi o un arma secondaria e incredibilmente difficile per motivi sbagliati quando premi il tasto per le armi secondarie devi aspettare 20 minuti ora che le tira fuori l'arma, poi mirare con    +finisce
    -sistema di controllo orribile soprattutto la scivolata a volte attacca a volte resta ferma a colpire il vuoto come se avessi premuto il tasto di attacco e poi usare le granate e il lanciarazzi o un arma secondaria e incredibilmente difficile per motivi sbagliati quando premi il tasto per le armi secondarie devi aspettare 20 minuti ora che le tira fuori l'arma, poi mirare con l'arma secondaria e difficilissimo
    -storia tra il banale e la merda assoluta
    -grafica vabbe decente non schifosa ne incredibile
    -quick time event troppo difficili col gamepad

    english

    + only six hours of campaign
    horrendous control system especially the slippery sometimes attacks it stops hitting the vacuum as if you had pressed the attack button and then used grenades and rocket launchers or a secondary weapon and incredibly difficult for wrong reasons when you press the key to the secondary weapons you have to wait 20 minutes now that pulls out the weapon, then aim with the secondary weapon and very hard
    -story between banal and absolute ****
    - decent graphics are not incredible
    -Quick time event too difficult with the gamepad    … Expand
  13. Ochetazinco
    Feb 25, 2014
    0
    Not only does this game go up to just 1080p as I've heard, it's not real 1080p, it's up-scaled 720p, so if you're expecting that you could max out the game just like any PC game, you will not. 1080p looks choppy because it is stretched 720p to fit a 1920x1080 resolution, and you will have two big black bars at the bottom and on to the right of your screen, the image does not cover theNot only does this game go up to just 1080p as I've heard, it's not real 1080p, it's up-scaled 720p, so if you're expecting that you could max out the game just like any PC game, you will not. 1080p looks choppy because it is stretched 720p to fit a 1920x1080 resolution, and you will have two big black bars at the bottom and on to the right of your screen, the image does not cover the whole monitor, because it is console 1080p meant for TVs not the full 1920x1080 pixels for a computer monitor!!!!… Expand
  14. xyra
    Feb 8, 2014
    0
    BLADE MODE ON THE PC IS BROKEN
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  15. arislaf
    Jun 8, 2016
    0
    Don't buy this game. Controls sucks long time, scenario is boring, too much cut-scenes, fighting is boring, graphics are not so good, music is boring, generally it is a mix up of dmc, with prince of persia, written by a 10 years old boy. Sure it is a Japanese hack n slash, but from the worst ever.
  16. gruia
    Mar 7, 2014
    2
    Gosh this plot character design and dialog is so unattractive. Mechanics are okish, but im not impressed.

    overall mediocre project. waste of time and resources.
  17. LatentPotential
    Dec 25, 2015
    2
    Played for 15 minutes. Let me tell you, I have no problems wading through **** to find a gem, but sometimes you can tell that wading through **** can only yield more ****.

    Worst camera I've ever seen. Horribly boring combat (and I'm a fact of God of War type games). People that rate this high are basically Kojima worshipers. His games suck dick. Get over it. This one sucked me in    Played for 15 minutes. Let me tell you, I have no problems wading through **** to find a gem, but sometimes you can tell that wading through **** can only yield more ****.

    Worst camera I've ever seen. Horribly boring combat (and I'm a fact of God of War type games).

    People that rate this high are basically Kojima worshipers. His games suck dick. Get over it. This one sucked me in with the GoW type combat. I paid $7.50 and it's not worth half that. This game is wank.    … Expand
  18. golforoosh
    Dec 11, 2014
    4
    this game have a bad control and camera for pc .the combos are not so various and interesting(unlike DmC).the blocking system is broken (you cant realize when you are attack and when you must stop attacking and parry). this game have a lot of cutscene . Graphic quality is poor even in max setting and texture is poor too . Riaden character is like a badass one and his gear have a prettythis game have a bad control and camera for pc .the combos are not so various and interesting(unlike DmC).the blocking system is broken (you cant realize when you are attack and when you must stop attacking and parry). this game have a lot of cutscene . Graphic quality is poor even in max setting and texture is poor too . Riaden character is like a badass one and his gear have a pretty good design. you may have problem with exiting the game alt+F4 recommended after save.… Expand
  19. NerdWithOpinion
    Apr 2, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. !!!MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!

    Yeah, yeah, let's give a game 10 out of 10 because funny Jetstream Sam memes and music is a bit good. This game is terrible, I don't know about consoles, but PC port is beyond garbage, I don't care about your "Kojima is genius" **** since this game is a slasher and in this genre gameplay must be a top priority, and here, well... Raiden, even thought he is a cyborg and has super speed, feels like a snail with all this endlag. Cutting humans is a bit fun since all you have to do is heavy into blade mode, chop their... I don't know what that is... and get that dopamine from slaying an army in a couple of seconds, but when it comes to something more serious, it seems they just decided to slap giant robots with hyperarmour and tons of HP on a battle system that is clearly designed for a quick slash against weak opponents. Bosses, where do I start, they all want to be flashy but all you have from them is frustration, you want to know why, because... CAMERA. Camera in this game is awful, it's a slasher for god’s sake, and it has one of the worst camera positioning I have ever seen in my entire life, it always tries to auto aim onto opponent, it has a FREAKING DELAY for some reason ON A PC VERSION, sensitivity is always going from extremely high to "I literally moved my mouse from one side of table to another, and camera didn't move at all", this game thinks it's smarter than the player who plays it, and worst of all, you can't turn it off. You will have to get used to this awful camera, and worst part, some bosses are unbeatable because of that, example MoonSoon, he has an attack when he goes into smoke and attack from different angles, sometimes he attack face to face, so you can easily parry him and escape being comboed for half of your life, and sometimes, he just goes from a back, and no, your reaction won't help you, as I mentioned before you can flick your mouse as hard as you can, camera won't move at all, and why is it essential, because parries in this game, related to camera, so yeah good luck with that, this is also a reason why fights against crowds are complete hell, because your camera even if you don't want it, always sets some sort of enemy target and when clashing a lot of enemies you will often experience camera going earthquake mode since it always changes its target as a result you will have your camera shaking, going from place to place, and it will also give you problems with movement and parries, good luck, because this is the only thing you can rely on in a fight against same MoonSoon, just hope all his attacks when he goes into smoke state will be face to face. Then we have parry itself, who the @%#* thought it would be a good idea to make a gameplay essential mechanic require two buttons to be pressed at exact timing, most of the time it doesn't work, because for it to work you have to press "W" + M1 which is also a Light Attack forwards, yup, you probably guessed it, most of the time, instead of parrying you will just attack air, and get punished, because well-made game.

    Now to the story and characters, can someone please explain to me why "Kojima is a genius", story is boring, "Make America great again", and "Memes"... Half of the characters are just cliché types from some Anime weeaboo **** we have a "Girl with tough past who became killer because world is cruel", we got some philosophy dude who no-one gives a **** about because he comes in to say his monolog and dies after boss battle, and of course he sounds smart just because everyone except him are complete idiots with 12-years old personalities. Jetstream Sam, is he that good? He is ok, typical "cool" guy who everyone will like because he is "bad guy" but actually, a "good guy" and he is like has this deep "ideals crisis" so a bunch of edgy teens will relate to him. But does he deserve all the attention he got, no. And how could we forget about Senator MakeAmericaGreatAgain Armstrong, who... could've been an interesting villain but was turned into some freak with ideals and goals of 12-years old who just discovered politics and tries to act cool and mature by saying some cliché villain phases so that our hero can sound rational and smart compared to him.

    So summing it all up we have, a Slasher with terrible battle system that could've been good, but was used incorrectly, awful camera IN A SLASHER that has a core mechanic that RELIES ON CAMERA, we got boring story and characters. Why is this game became so popular, because 12-years olds who make memes with "Bloodshed" and other mediocre boss themes from this... "game"...

    Should you give it a try after all the hype it got all of a sudden in 2022? 50/50 since It is terrible on PC for sure, but maybe with controller or on console it will give you better experience, main problem for me was camera, maybe with controller it will be less noticeable and somewhat playable, but if all you have is mouse and keyboard, don't, just don't.    … Expand
  20. mtb_stritecz_cr
    Sep 10, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 10 струйно-поточных Сэмов из 10. Каждый саундтрек западает в душу. Каждый персонаж имеет свою мотивацию, что придает им харизму. Кодзима гений)… Expand
  21. Grim13
    Nov 25, 2014
    3
    lol I actually had one of the game's Steam Forum Moderators mock my annoyance at having to modify the game's .ini files to get past some of the games gamebreaking bugs.

    Apparently, actually expecting a game to function properly on the platform I've purchased it for is a wildly rebellious idea these days.
  22. CuteOfDeath
    Jun 27, 2022
    2
    This game would've been AMAZING!... if it wasn't for the most unforgiving, janky, and outright **** controls. The game makes you learn parrying, which is tied to GOING FORWARD and ATTACKING! both actions are tied to other very common moves, which makes the whole mechanic very unreliable. All would've been ok, if parrying wasn't mandatory to progressing through the game. The second boss youThis game would've been AMAZING!... if it wasn't for the most unforgiving, janky, and outright **** controls. The game makes you learn parrying, which is tied to GOING FORWARD and ATTACKING! both actions are tied to other very common moves, which makes the whole mechanic very unreliable. All would've been ok, if parrying wasn't mandatory to progressing through the game. The second boss you encounter, literally forces you to parry all of his very fast attacks to do even slivers of damage. The game even has a slow motion in one of his attacks so you can parry easier, which doesn't help, because the parry mechanic doesn't work. I was playing on medium difficulty mind you, the "baby mode" meant for everyone. I guess that means I'm bad at the game right? I did everything HITLESS going through the game, but the second boss is just a road block of janky mechanics. Don't buy the game, it might've been a good game before in 2014, but right now, it's a bad and old game.… Expand
  23. sakeskol
    Apr 18, 2023
    3
    Pros:
    -Raiden's and some enemies' designs
    -Satisfying blade battles -Good musical themes Cons: -Generic story (nothing special, close to boring) -Vr missions (especially dlc vr 29) -Zandatsu (cutting spots are messed up, autofocus too) -Camera -Bland meme characters. Good for 13 year old kids. -Framedrops (at pc) -The game doesn't come with a punching bag, you have to buy your    Pros:
    -Raiden's and some enemies' designs
    -Satisfying blade battles
    -Good musical themes

    Cons:
    -Generic story (nothing special, close to boring)
    -Vr missions (especially dlc vr 29)
    -Zandatsu (cutting spots are messed up, autofocus too)
    -Camera
    -Bland meme characters. Good for 13 year old kids.
    -Framedrops (at pc)
    -The game doesn't come with a punching bag, you have to buy your own.

    All in all the game feels cheap. generic and unfinished.    … Expand
  24. somovbiu
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
    This game misses everything good about Bayonetta and becomes a very forgettable meh.

Awards & Rankings

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#33 Best PC Game of 2014
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#27 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#76 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    May 11, 2014
    87
    Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is great looking, great playing action explosion, and the PC version is the best version. [Feb 2014]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Apr 7, 2014
    80
    Raiden reaps what the action filled gameplay sows and if it wasn't for the clunky camera and lackluster plot, there would be nothing to complain about. [Issue #239]
  3. CD-Action
    Mar 5, 2014
    80
    It might be unpolished, but it still is a gem among slashers, especially on a platform that lacks this kind of game. [03/2014, p.72]
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