You'd really think there'd be more screenshots of Naked Raiden floating around online.Īrsenal Gear's purpose is, I suppose, self-contained. This all contrasts with the MGS2 surrealist madhouse that is your capture and transportation to Arsenal Gear, which exists to. Oh wait! Zing! Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Arsenal Gear The level is practically a catwalk for the new enemies, except with more stringy, vicious creatures who seek only to further themselves. Confusion is applied carefully and bearably to the game by making a debut together with a trail of clues that let you know everything will be revealed soon.Īs the player continues along with nothing to shoot, the tension increases, and when the Flood are finally revealed the player takes them in with every ounce of attention they can muster. Sent into a swamp, at night, to rescue a squad of marines that have dropped off the radar, the player has no idea what they're walking into or why there are no enemies to shoot. For a good time imagine that Guilty Spark on the right there is actually behind Master Chief and 20 feet tall.īungie therefore made Guilty Spark a level about exploring the unknown. Unlike the Covenant, who demonstrate care for their own survival, the Flood are suicidal, angry and hungry and both look and sound like something you'd find in the vegetable drawer of an abandoned fridge. In the case of the Flood, that means the fear and panic they cause.
This level's purpose then is to maximise the impact of the new enemy by taking what makes them special and amplifying it. Being enemies with different attacks, weaknesses, appearances and barks they add more variety to the game, and later on when you encounter the three-way Covenant/Flood/Master Chief battles, they add a little more depth too.
As much as people might dislike the Flood, Bungie's reason for including them is fairly obvious.
I stole that term from Epic, but I reckon they stole it from someone else so it's okay.ģ43 Guilty Spark also exists to introduce the Flood. Where Constantine's Mansion exists to trip the player up on their own assumptions and return them to the mental darkness where the game thrives, 343 Guilty Spark is there as an enforced diversion from the action or 'palette cleanser'. Another level very carefully placed to shake up players with some unexpected fear and tension, though Guilty Spark is different.
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