Metal Gear Solid and her equally confusing and long-winded sequels have always prided themselves on excellent gameplay, beautiful presentation, and mind-numbingly long and confusing cut-scenes that leave you scratching your head in a drooling stupor by the time the game lets you play again. According to PSW magazine, Metal Gear Solid 4 will be continuing this trend, sporting cut-scenes that may top ninety fucking minutes.

At least, according to the magazine, the story is well worth the 90-minute gameplay intermissions:

MGS4’s story is massive. The videogame equivalent of all three Godfather movies on one disc,” says the mag. As you’d expect, you’ll spend a lot of time watching cut-scenes, so if you found previous games’ story exposition laborious, then you’d better find yourself a nice cushion and plenty of teabags in readiness for MGS4’s. They can be skipped, but you’ll be missing out on some of the finely crafted examples of FMV footage anywhere in gaming.

Now while the “extended” FMV sequences are one thing that will have fans divided, the fact that there will be a mandatory 4.6GB install to the PS3 hard drive, further continuing the trend of boneheaded moves on the part of developers who have yet to realize that installs should be optional, not mandatory. Hell, I’m starting to run out room here!

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patroits will be released on PlayStation 3 on June 12th.

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