Screenshot: Konami / Claire Jackson / KotakuPlay it on: PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Change, Change 2, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Verified”)Present objective: SurviveMGS3 is an effective recreation. It’s an excellent recreation, even. There, I stated it. Despite the fact that continually altering my camo and coping with nature on this recreation actually checks my endurance, it’s nonetheless the type of stealth problem that would summon me to my smash. And regardless that this story, I dunno, ain’t my factor, goodness if it isn’t entertaining. And whereas the Grasp Assortment’s model could not really feel just like the MGS3 I performed within the ‘00s, it, and MGS3 broadly, nonetheless has that alluring Steel Gear magic.Learn Extra: Enjoying Steel Gear Strong 3 With out Strain-Delicate Buttons Is Giving Me Literal Phantom PainsThere’s a remake of this traditional title arriving subsequent month, and I’m actually to see what MGS3 might be in 2025. I’ve a sense of us may discover the sport more durable than they could bear in mind it. You’ll be able to actually draw a line from MGS3 straight to Dying Stranding. Managing battery meters, suppressors that put on out, needing to continually are inclined to your stock, what you’re carrying, what’s in or out of your backpack, coping with stamina—MGS3 was doing these things lengthy earlier than Dying Stranding was a child in a pod. So to wrestle as soon as extra with a recreation that’s usually left me feeling very prickly, and to get a dose of the unique’s magic earlier than the remake, I’ll be leaping into the fictional Russian jungles as Bare Snake but once more. — Claire Jackson