Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

MPO is the fourth Metal Gear title made specifically for the PSP and the first one to retain the series' action-based play mechanics. It is the first canonical outing of the Metal Gear Solid series for a…

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Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 5 December 2006 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2006. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Portable Ops takes place in 1970, six years after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. It follows the soldier Naked Snake (David Hayter/Akio Ōtsuka) who is forced to fight off his former unit, FOX, after they instigate a revolt in a South American base. In his fight he meets Roy Campbell (David Agranov/Toshio Furukawa), a surviving member of the Green Berets team that was sent to investigate the affair. Snake's former teammates including his commanding officer Major Zero (Jim Piddock/Banjō Ginga), Para-Medic (Heather Halley/Houko Kuwashima) and Sigint (James C. Mathis III/Keiji Fujiwara) return as the support crew as they are suspected for treason alongside Snake. The main antagonist is Gene…

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is the 24th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. It arrived 9 months after Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence - Limited Edition. The next entry was Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Solid Collection in 2007. Its critic score of 90 is 9 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.

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How it was received

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 11 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops launched on 5 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Cheats and codes

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