Metal Gear Online

Metal Gear Online was switched off last Tuesday, I’ll be honest, I’m far more upset about it then I thought I would be. As a big Metal Gear fan (and have been for well over a decade) I hated that I missed out on the original Metal Gear Online, a multiplayer mode that came bundled with the Subsistence version of Metal Gear Solid 3. I took part in the beta (I was even one of the hundreds of thousands that failed to get into the game the first time they tried to launch the beta), I played for over 160 hours and some of my fondest PS3 memories come from this game. You’d be forgiven for making an observation: Metal Gear Online wasn’t an MMO. You’d be correct in the strictest sense, but in my mind I’ve never seen a community like it and, honestly, I don’t think I ever will again.