Metal Gear Survive

No Kojima, no problem?

- Samuel Roberts

Metal Gear Survive is great fun, and I’m only as far as the co-op lobby. Here, you and three buddies get to dick around with all your characters’ gear. I’m the first to work out you can shell other players with mortar fire. I jog away from my comrades and let rip. The mortar whistles down and knocks two of them off their feet, and I burst out laughing.

I then jog over to punch one of the other players in the back of the head, but fall over in an oil slick another player has laid down. Standing up, someone else hits me from behind. A teammate then mortars me and I fall over. An ironic punishment.

That was the most fun lobby ever, then, and the demo makes a pretty good first impression, too. The inventory controls for Survive are slightly too busy. Different d-pad buttons give you access to weapons or objects like fences and gadgets, and it’s difficult to remember which button does what. But the amount of options open to you is impressive.