Instead of the gravelly, sarcastic voice fans had fallen in love with back in MGS1, Snake was instead portrayed by Hollywood actor Kiefer Sutherland.

The most popular example of MGSV's deficiency in tone is most assuredly the absence of David Hayter as Snake. Why Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Is Better Than MGSV However, this does little to affect the ' Metal Gear-ness' of the game's tone, and for that purpose, it was Kojima Productions that was primarily in charge of the game's story. On the other end of the spectrum, Metal Gear Rising suffered no such challenges during its production period and managed to achieve a tone more reminiscent of core Metal Gear games than MGSV. In fact, the company behind Rising, PlatinumGames, is widely regarded as one of the best developers of stylish action games in the world, making it an incredibly wise decision to divert from the series' typical stealth formula to more robust, hack-and-slash gameplay. Related: Confirmed: Hideo Kojima Leaves Konami With Plans To Launch A New Studio Despite it being an incredibly well-polished title in terms of gameplay, its comparatively weak story and dialogue meant the spirit of MGS seemed awkwardly absent. Konami underwent a massive corporate restructuring that year, and the final product of Metal Gear Solid 5 clearly shows the results. MGSV's story is notoriously unfinished, and the series' creator and director, Hideo Kojima, had a widely publicized falling-out with the series' publisher, Konami, midway through its production. MGSV's shortcoming are not necessarily all purposeful decisions from the developers.

With that in mind, it's almost laughable how Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, an offshoot title made by a different company, stayed more faithful to the series without even being in the same genre. When fans finally got their hands on the series' final core entry, they almost universally felt disappointment in the many ways Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain failed to hit the same tonal and thematic notes. The way in which it discusses politics, philosophy and war with a mixture of purposeful sobriety and comical absurdity has never been matched, and perhaps never will. No video game series has a tone or a set of themes quite as unique as Metal Gear Solid.

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