I like to go for no-kill playthroughs.

Everytime I go into an area, my objective is sneak in there, hold up every guard, get their items, and interrogate them to hear what they have to say.

Then I CQC and push them to the ground. Then I leave.

They don't know I left.

Chasing "The End" around the fields was pretty fun. He's pretty harmless, you just gotta act fast with the cure option. Love sneaking up on him while he's sitting and snoring then CAP CAP CAP CAP with my AK, then when he runs away, it's sniping time! So far I think he's the easiest boss of the Cobra unit.

Oh yeah I cheated.

I recommend tranquilizing bosses. For not killing them, you get



For beating The End without killing him, you get

Try to put info like this in spoiler tag cause someone may want to discover it by him self =(

About the bosses:

Sorry about that. I figured that wasn't something plot-related or hidden.

But I'll be more careful next time.

I've edited my previous post to include Spoiler tags.

Has anyone tried to play the Duel Mode? Normal Mode is pretty chellenging to get the top score, but I finished that all with highest score. The Special Mode is really tough (some of them.) I only got the high score on a few of them.

I've been busy in that mode myself and have gotten about as far as you. You are right though some of thoes specials are pretty darn hard. (right up there with European Extreme). But to this day though I still find the battle against Volgin the toughest battle in the game by far. If anyone has any good strategies for laying waste to this disturbing and powerful boss, plese post them here or PM me. ^^

I know that alot of people find the final battle hard, but I've done it so many times I can make them look like a joke.

The Fear Battle:

Spoiler (highlight to read):

Was it just me, or was the Fear realllllllly easy? Like, beat him in 1 minute on the first try easy? All I did was stay in first-person mode, took out my mk22 tranq gun, watched where he jumped to (stealth camo wasn't too invisible), and shot him twice on each branch. He didn't even have a chance to shoot at me.

Here was my method to deal with Fear

I think The End and especially The Fury are hilariously easy on normal difficultly.



CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

THE END:

I found all bosses easy on normal difficulty. It saddened me that I defeated them so easily.

In the battle with The End,





Because

That's interesting. I should try that when I go through the game a second time.

The first time I fought The End, I was there for about 30-45 minutes because I didn't know any tricks for fighting him. I still found the battle fun. At that time, I didn't have the thermal goggles at all, so I had a hard time finding him.

I was near a cliff area just looking around, and noticed something shining at the cliffs on the other side. I used the scope and saw that The End hadn't spotted me yet. I remember running out of ammo for all weapons except for the handgun, so I had to use that to shoot The End even if he was on another cliff. It ended up working though.

You guys should really try to beat the bosses in the Special Duel Mode.
You don't get any thermal goggles or anything for the fight with The Fear or The End. In fact, the fight with The End doesn't even let you have the Directional Microphone to hear where he is, plus he's constantly on the move and not sitting in one place for long. One headshot from The End, and you're dead. The konami code to show his location doesn't work for duel mode.

Oh =P didn't know =) Any news about the covers?

Well, I just got the ending credits for this game. It's been fun. And also somewhat quite sad. I have to say I did roll a tear or two just after the VERY last battle, and the subsequent scenes as well.

Okay, I'm pretty sad trying to understand these type of games but at the VERY end after the credits

Also with EVA,

All in all, I think I liked this MGS game the most, followed by the first game, then SOL. They're all very well done, but this one takes the cake. It's got a lot of varied environments to keep you interested and it doesn't have to make you run around back and forth (1st game) and having to revisit old places over and over again (both 1st and 2nd game). I didn't like being couped up in the Big Shell.

I don't really know about playing this game another round anytime soon. I get this feeling of "regret" after beating pretty much every game, especially RPGs, or no matter how "fun" or light-hearted the game might be.

Back to that term paper due for tomorrow. :edgartpg:

Ocelot was

OCELOT!!!

Funny, I thought Ocelot's special ability was shot-banking (only with his revolver, though). The third guy is Raikov.
On a related note, I think an interesting bonus for the online mode would have been levels based on previous games in the series...

I think you've mistaken him for Gurlukovich. He was the one that wanted to restore power to "mother Russia." Ocelot said he had no interest: "Like I said I came to take it back. Returned, to the Patriots!"

My memory has failed me.

Now this word is popping into my head. Why.



And...

Those words are another name for..