✓ Same family of stealth-action games: adventure storytelling, puzzle design and strong narrative focus
≠ Stands apart with shooter, third-person shooting and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation
Hundreds of very short training challenges stripped from the original Metal Gear Solid — sneak past guards, clear a room, solve a weapon puzzle — set in abstract wireframe rooms with no world attached. It is the pure mechanical core of the game and nothing else. There is no story to speak of, and this PC release is a widely criticised port that many players replace with a community fix.
Where it drifts furthest from The Pirate Queen: With Lucy Liu: tone.
It predates The Pirate Queen: With Lucy Liu by 25 years, with what that implies technically.
