Metal Gear Online

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Metal Gear Online Guide

Metal Gear Online is the multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 4, a fairly robust and well structured frag-orientated experience. This section of the guide aims to give you some basic tips on how to survive in online multiplayer, and on some of the more confusing areas of play.

Getting Started

Konami have implemented an odd registration system that requires you to make an account before you can play, regardless of your PSN details.

Either once you start Metal Gear Online from the Metal Gear Solid 4 menu or on another Internet browser you need to go to http://id.konami.net. From there you can register for multiplayer using two usernames (they can't be the same) using lowercase letters or numbers only. The password must be numbers only. You can then return to MGO and login before creating your character.

You can only have one character at a time and must purchase others for a somewhat pricey £3.99 (though you only really need one character anyway unless you have a sibling who wants to play too and are worried about them ruining your kills/death ratio). You can customise his appearance and combat outfit and then pick various skills to help you in battle in each of the four available slots (a bit like Call of Duty's perks). Through extended play and use of these skills they will be upgraded, though this takes a seriously long time!