I purchased it today, and I played it until my controller ran out of juice. This game is absolutely amazing. So far, it has been the perfect blend of story and gameplay. Certainly it has many cutscenes, in fact, it puts Xenosaga games to shame (and that's saying something), but this movie like atmosphere really drags you into the story and makes you care what's going on.
I've noticed that MGS4 is a great deal more accessable than previous installments have been. The stealth factor is still all here, but so far, at least in the first Act, there is an enormous amount of leeway as to how you want to proceed. You can rush forward, gunning PMC's as you go... though that's very dangerous to do... or you can slowly move forward taking out each PMC you come across using a wide variety of weapons... or you can sneak past them, taking your foes down with hand to hand combat when necessary.
The Octo-Camo suit is awesome. Amazing. Astounding. You can blend into the environment with ease, and if you want to play around with it, you can actually use the octo camo system as a way of changing Snake's outfit to a color of your preference. Like the color of that wall over there? Go lean up against it, wait for the suit to change color, and then you can go into the options menu and save that color in the system's memory. Snake will wear whatever color you set until you either reset the system, change color manually, or blend into a different surface. It even stays whatever color/camo you set during cutscenes. The scene where Snake is held up by the rookie? My Snake was wearing a pure white Octo Camo suit... pretty sweet if you ask me.
I could go on and on about how amazing this game is, but I'll leave that until later...
Cheers.
