Can the oringial Rising be palyed without playing any other Metal Gear game? Its unique brand of crazy sounds awesome.
I hate the Metal Gear titles, like seriously the story is so full of psuedo-philosophical wank I literally can not bring myself to play those games. The story, the characters; its just horrible.
Having said that, I have finished MGR. Its not like your being Clockwork Orange'd with your eyeballs forced open to deal with a never ending barrage of cutscenes and the other crap Metal Gear games force upon you, its a bit more to the point but it is still a Metal Gear game so you get the game is trying to take this sort of semi serious tone with politics and war intermingled with the free market of private military corporations and characters that are completely laughable at best but the main game itself is pretty good. That last fight though with Captain America and his dribble, god I just wanted to cut his head off so he'd shut up.
It plays like a Platinum game. I mean, I felt like it was definitely the weakest Platinum game I have played, beside Bayonetta and Wonderful 101 the combat system felt too rigid and archaic. Going straight from MGR to Bayonetta was jarring for MGR because it exposed just how rigid it was and how the games combo sequences just didnt feel like they had the same naturally flow to them, also the camera angle could be frustrating as shit but it was a good action game in its own right. People say Platinum took over MGR and didnt have a huge amount of time to work on it so that may explain it but its still definitely worth playing.
MGR can be had pretty cheap and if you plan on playing on PC you dont need fuck all to run it really. Just dont expect Bayonetta levels of awesome. The game is mostly all about Zendastu more than combo and dodge offsets.