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Game entry

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

2005 · Action-adventure, FPS, Survival, Strategy · PlayStation 2 · Konami

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence holds position no. 253 in the world ranking on GameForever, with 1,769 ELO points and 56% of duels won out of 255 played. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Call of Duty 2: 3 duels settled, 1 to 2. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 10 out of 149 (2005).

World rank

no. 253

ELO score

1,769

Wins

56%

Duels played

255

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About Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence continues the Metal Gear Solid series tradition of follow-up enhanced, international version releases.
Subsistence's online multiplayer component, titled Metal Gear Online, consists of five tournament-style game modes, each with a capacity of up to eight players. This mode pits players, each playing as a generic soldier against each other in deathmatch battles and variations of capture the flag, using stages, items, maneuvers, and units (such as the KGB, GRU or Ocelot Unit) from the main game.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,769 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 250 Silent Hill 2 1,771
  2. 251 Sleeping Dogs 1,770
  3. 252 BioShock 2 1,769
  4. 253 Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence 1,769
  5. 254 Counter-Strike: Source 1,769
  6. 255 Batman: Arkham Knight 1,768
  7. 256 God of War 1,768

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The standing

Where Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 10 out of 149 (2005).

Where Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 253 5,035
Action-adventure 40 329
2000s 69 1,308
2005 10 149

The community

The debate

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  1. Save_Gerlach

    Compare it to Half-Life 2 Episode Two and honestly there's no contest for me, one is a tight narrative experience and the other drags in places, I know I'm biased since this series is basically why I got into gaming but I stand by it

  2. ArcadeWarden2

    Man, some evenings I just stare at this ranking and remember being a kid who thought it was untouchable.

    IronPlayer

    Same thing happened with my group growing up, everyone treated it like gospel and I never quite got why myself

  3. bdickinson

    gonna be the guy who says it, ranked 321st and honestly some of that is deserved, the camo system is genius but the inventory menu fumbling gets old fast when u just wanna eat a snake and move on lol

    QuestDragon2005

    Fair point on the mise en scène, though the boss fight itself still holds up for me

    LuckyNinja2000

    Genius camo, clunky menu, still beats most shooters people rank higher

  4. NovaWolf1994

    Is it really aging as well as people claim here?

    BossNinja1986

    Does it really hold up against something like Far Cry 4 in pure pacing terms?

  5. Cosmo_Runolfsdottir

    the boss fight with the sniper alone deserves a higher spot than this honestly, one of the best in any game i've played

    RogueNinja62

    Ce fameux boss du sniper, tout le monde le cite pareil, j'ai fini par voter contre lui plus par lassitude que par conviction

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