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If you follow a franchise long enough, you're bound to see strange spin-offs into completely new genres. Kojima's game went on to become series canon, while Snake's Revenge became apocrypha - an interesting curiosity, but nothing more.īest bit: Actually getting to fight a Metal Gear in an NES game David Roberts 18. Kojima began work on a true sequel, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, which released exclusively in Japan six months after Snake's Revenge. It was made specifically for North America and Europe because of the popularity of the first game, and series creator Hideo Kojima had no knowledge that it was even being worked on until well into its development. It even has a few interesting gameplay twists of its own, as you can actually interrogate enemy commanders for information by hitting them with a canister of truth gas.īut Snake's Revenge isn't really a Metal Gear game. As a follow-up to the NES version of Metal Gear, it's actually surprisingly decent, providing more of the same stealth gameplay with an all new story. Snake's Revenge isn't low on this list because it's a bad game. Unless you're so desperate that you absolutely have to have a Metal Gear fix available at all times, it's best to pretend MGS Touch doesn't exist.īest bit: Deleting this garbage app from your phone David Roberts 19. That's about it.Įverything about MGS Touch feels cheap - characters and environments look like they've been poorly Photoshopped out of MGS4, enemies fall down in three jarring frames of animation when shot, and the gameplay is far too basic to be engaging. Occasionally you have to zoom in to shoot a distant enemy or switch to your rocket launcher to take out a lumbering Gekko. Enemy soldiers appear on each stage, and you swipe your finger on the screen to aim and tap to fire. Loosely following the plot of MGS4, Touch takes the series' trademark open-ended stealth action and converts it into a bland, uninspired shooting gallery. There are ways to convert popular console franchises to mobile devices without sacrificing what makes those games so special, but everything about Metal Gear Solid Touch screams soulless cash grab.