Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (commonly abbreviated to MPO) is a stealth action game directed by Masahiro Yamamoto and produced by Noriaki Okamura and series creator Hideo Kojima. Portable Ops was developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The voice acting is still fine like in other Metal Gear games.
 * 2) You can play online with your friends.
 * 3) Good controls for a PSP game.
 * 4) Recruit allies during combat is an interesting feature.
 * 5) It makes some improvements over its prequel.
 * 6) You can capture your enemies to make them your allies.
 * 7) Good storyline.
 * 8) Great graphic novel inspired cutscenes.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) You can only control one ally and they can't hide in boxes.
 * 2)  Team aspects involve too much micro-management.
 * 3)  Limited inventory puts unnecessary burden on item-carrying.
 * 4) The M870 shotgun is ridiculously overpowered and is incredibly effective against half of the bosses (namely Python, Null and Gene).
 * 5) The storyline has pitfalls and too many slowdowns.
 * 6) Although for the most part well done, some of the special recruiting missions have proven to be tedious, with Raikov and Sokolov being the only ones who are given any hints at how to recruit them in the actual strategy guide, and even then, only the first part with Sokolov's recruiting missions.
 * 7) Recycled Premise: A retired war hero is called back into action in order to stop his former unit, who are now rogue. This is the same exact plot as the original Metal Gear Solid, only with Solid Snake and FOXHOUND replaced by Naked Snake and the original FOX unit.
 * 8) The story retcons a lot of the established storyline and lore to the point where the game's canoncity is ambiguous. This is most likely why Kojima considers the game non-canon.

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