Quinton Flynn returns once again to voice Raiden, but his performance gets occasionally schizophrenic half-way through the game sometimes he sounds like Raiden and other times he sounds like Mark Hamill as the Joker trying to do an impression of Kevin Conroy as Batman. The audio is generally strong, although there are a few eyebrow raising moments here and there.

If you own both consoles, pick your poison, but single console owners can rest easy knowing that neither version is catastrophically crippled compared to the other.

On the other hand, the cut scenes get much more breathing space on the Blu-Ray disc of the PS3 version, and so have higher detail and generally look sharper and better, whereas the 360 version can occasionally look a bit more muddled and jaggy. We’re not taking Bayonetta levels of lagging, but if you’re a pure performance hound, the 360 version is the way to go. Unfortunately, Platinum’s past difficulties with the PS3 rear their head here from time to time, so while the 360 version-which was used for review-maintains a steady framerate with little to no screen tearing, the PS3 version occasionally lags behind. When we get to the visuals, we see a crisp, clean, good looking game that generally performs well. Raiden, of course, recovers from this, and with a sense of burning humiliation and failed duty, he goes off to uncover the cyborg conspiracy and find out who’s trying to snuff out the peaceful development of various nations and fan the flames of war once again. Things go disastrously wrong when an African leader under Raiden’s protection gets killed by some top class cyborg mercs, one of whom is good enough to cut off Raiden’s arm and take out his left eye. The Patriots have been defeated, Snake makes no appearance whatsoever-though is obliquely referenced from time to time-and Raiden is now working with a “good” private military corporation, Maverick Security, which only does protection work, and NGO assistance, never taking on the role of invader or aggressor. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance takes place a few years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4. And arms, legs, cybernetic spinal cords and the occasional torso. The game was handed off to Platinum Games, best known for Bayonetta and more recently, Anarchy Reigns. Now he’s back in his own game, but with Kojima taking on more of a supervisory role. Things took a turn for the surprising when Raiden returned in Metal Gear Solid 4 as a bad ass cybernetic ninja who easily tore through the kind of mechanized foes that gave Solid Snake a run for his money. After a somewhat dubious debut as an effeminate, angsty product of child soldier training in Metal Gear Solid 2, the fans cried out in dismay as Raiden took centre stage over Snake. Hideo Kojima just won’t give up on Raiden.

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