i agree, raiden is a phony. i cannot believe that anybody wanted to play as him, and it would be unbelievable if he even had one fan. the girls wanted a younger character so they made raiden the main character. the really funny thing is even the ones who wanted a younger character complained about raiden. if you think of buying this one, buy the subsistance version, hopefully you can play the whole freakin game as snake. seriously, i don't have a ps3 so either snake comes to another system like the wii (which will probabally never happen unless you buy it from the virtual console for and use up a huge chunk of memory like 4gb of space, or have it in like 5 disks and not use the motion controls, instead, use a gamecube controller. seriously, this may never happen, we were lucky to get the twin snakes for gamecube. my guess is we will have to go through playing as horrible raiden in mgs2 on the wii again that is if they do make one for the wii. nintendo has a better chance of having a metal gear solid game than x-box since the twin snakes was brought to gamecube while x-box was out. sorry about that, got carried away.