bare with me cause im really drunk at this point. i think that mgs revengeance is gonna be awesome in its own right. i like the angle its going for. i like the fact the once again we have raiden as the protagonist. i loved bayoneta and vanquish. i have the PAK figs for both. i think that id get any fig from this line because theey are all cool i really like the chick with all the three legged thingy arms. she seems so bad ass. i dont really get all the hate this game is getting. there will always be ss and bb games. let raiden finish his story. if he sucks then oh well. you know theyll always have some cool mgs stealth game in the works that will be true to the story like always. i dont really think this game will be so bad, hideo is smarter than that id like to believe anyhoow.
Just so you know, Rising isn't part of the main canon. It's a side-story just like the Acid games, Ghost Babel, Super Smash Bros Brawl, etc. Raiden's story had already ended in MGS 4.
It does look fun. But, there are also some oddities in the gameplay that make me wish that KojiPro was developing this one.