Video Games : Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (PSP)

Rating: - Well worth it if you're going online.
First off this isnt a sequel. Think of it as a expansion or add-on. The sole purpose of portable ops plus is to expand on that highly addictive habbit of gaining more soldiers for your teams and to that end great soldiers of the past games are now avaiable. Old snake, roy campbell, raiden, SEAL's, genome soliders and much more are available. If you loved recruiting new soldiers from the past MPO you'll love this.

Single player 4/5: It's not a campaign so dont get any ideas. Basically you can import your whole team over from portable ops or start off fresh if you wish and then go into infinity mission. It is seperated into 4 difficulty levels adding 5 new stages each. The basic point of the stages is to get to the red advance point from the old MPO stages (hospital, patrol base etc.) But during these stages you have to find weapons and soldiers to add to your fighting force. You also have to complete special missions with certain rules to progress. It's over very quickly but if you want to get some of the great new soldiers you will have to venture in to extreme mode which is suicidal. Finally you can have 100 extra soldiers in your team and 4 new teams are placed in the sneaking squad. Take these new soldiers and weapons and move into online mode...

Online 5/5: This is where MPO+ really shines. Many new stages have been added to enjoy and all the classics are brought through. Many new aspects have been added and old ones tweaked. The chat system is much improved and it is easier to kill people. The weapons and characters are much more balanced and the environment is improved. If you want to show off those snazzy new soldiers then this is the only place to do it but its well worth it. Theres the same amount of people online as in the original and you can fight the origional MPO users seperately but with lots of restrictions placed on.

So if you loved recruiting soldiers from the original MPO and you have online then this is a must have. For only around 10-15 pounds its worth it.

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Rating: - It's great if...
This game takes the online aspect of the original Portable Ops and expands it. The online aspect on the original was a great addition, but training up your recruits was a long arduous task, this game is focused solely on making it easier to get better recruits and train them up faster to take online and battle against opponents.

This game has no storyline, it's a stand-alone game which is meant for the purpose of online play.

The offline play is called 'Infinity Mission' where you go from one stage to the final stage (up to 20 stages depending on difficulty). You achieve different ranks for how well you do. It's monotonous but easier than in Portable Ops.

If you liked MPO online, you'll like this, more arenas, more battle types. If you're not going online, then it's probably not worth buying.

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Rating: - cany good
it has a very bad aiming system
it has dull areas
fairly fustrating
more of a part two than a full blown sequel
if youve got the first mgs po you can import reqruits
the wheels on the trucks are in the shape of a hexagon
doesn't have a story unlike the past games in the series.