Picking up MGS IV today at lunch. Anyone midnight it, and started playing through? Looking forward to the experience, but I'm not totally sure why. Most all of the reviews agree that if you are a Metal Gear fan, you will like this one, too (Tycho may have said it best.) I enjoyed the previous games enough, though not enough to play MGS 3. Think I'm more curious about the entire package, and how Kojima is molding the medium to his vision. If this truly is the end of the line for the series, you would expect he pulled out all the stops. Of course, now being free of the franchise, with it's restraints and expectations, perhaps his next project will encompass a purer form of what he believes can be done with a "video game".