Metal Gear Rising is excellent and you should all buy it.

[greed]

Even those of you without PS3s or 360s.

The game perfectly nails the tone of the best Metal Gear games, the gameplay is incredibly fun and really rewards skill, the parry mechanic in particular is excellent. It's loaded with great codec calls and secrets and replay value. And the whole damned cast is amazing from your codec buddies to the villains. Hell as of this game, Raiden is now my favourite Metal Gear protagonist. Yeah. MGS3 is still my favourite Metal Gear game though, but this is close.

You can invade Denver and slaughter most of it's police force with a staff made of cyborg arms. You can use this staff as a stripper pole and have Raiden tear people apart while doing a spin on it Bayonetta style. You can suplex a Metal Gear RAY. You can cut bosses into hundreds of pieces. The final boss is insane and beautiful and perfect in it's insanity.

So in conclusion buy this game people. It's the best thing Platinum's done since they stopped being Clover and the best thing Kojima's been associated with bar MGS3, and in both cases it's close.