METAL GEAR SOLID: THE BEAST IS BACK. WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge–ready to launch himself onto the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it passes below. Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear.

Metal Gear Solid [Raymond Benson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This explosive Metal Gear Solid novel ventures beyond the thrilling videogame and delves into the dark heart of Solid Snake’s world! Highly skilled former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake is called out of retirement to do what he does best–neutralize a crisis of epic proportions.

But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes. Two years later, a young, unproven agen METAL GEAR SOLID: THE BEAST IS BACK.

WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge–ready to launch himself onto the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it passes below.

Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear. But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes. Two years later, a young, unproven agent code-named Raiden must penetrate the mystery of what went so insanely wrong that night.

In a labyrinthine superstructure in New York Harbor known as the Big Shell, enemies, allies, secret agents, and double-dealers converge: Russian commandos, a cyber Vamp, a long-legged, leather-clad, rifle-bearing beauty named Fortune, a deformed, finely manicured bomber called Fatman, and a mysterious Mister X. Somewhere in the maze, as well, is the president himself–his biometrics coded to a bomb that can take out Manhattan, his loyalties unknown.

Now the rookie Raiden is fighting his way to one discovery after another, including the rebirth of Solid Snake himself and a nightmare organization with a history, a plan, and a terrifying superweapon hidden in plain sight. The only thing I can really give the book props to is that it's easy and quick to read. It had flashes of funny writing, but even that wasn't enough to boost this novel from bad to average. I've never even played a game in this franchise, but this novelization makes me want to go and play it because it would be a lot more fun than reading about it! I'm very certain this is just the book form of the game, but that doesn't excuse Benson from writing like an uninspired amateur. Nevermind the fact th The only thing I can really give the book props to is that it's easy and quick to read.

It had flashes of funny writing, but even that wasn't enough to boost this novel from bad to average. I've never even played a game in this franchise, but this novelization makes me want to go and play it because it would be a lot more fun than reading about it! I'm very certain this is just the book form of the game, but that doesn't excuse Benson from writing like an uninspired amateur. Nevermind the fact that things that make sense in a game do not automatically make sense in a book!

The novel also gets bogged down with useless explanations, terrible descriptions (sometimes even contradictory!), and way too much 'going from point A to B or wherever aka I no longer care'. It all just felt like useless padding to me.

Normally the saving grace would be either the plot or the characters. I got neither. The plot is goofy, it's silly and crazy but I got none of that in the novel. The writing just turns the goofyness into absurdity or idiocy if it isn't being dull. The characterization leaves much to be desired. Snake and Raiden (when in their pov) just read like the same person. Both having leering male gazes makes it even worse.

Having detailed descriptions of the women, and making their physical beauty the most important thing is just infuriatingly disgusting. Take for example Emma, she's a genius and then we get a comment somewhere along the line of 'beautiful and smart'. It reads like the fact that she's brilliant is just an afterthought, which really undermines her strong points and makes Raiden look like a pig. But above all of it everyone either feels like crazy (and not in a good or fun way) or stupid. Data mine studio 3 tutorial pdf. Like really stupid in a way that makes you want to scream and knock some sense into them.