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Series: Metal Gear Solid 2
Craftsmanship: 7.2 out of 10 - Chick in hip-waders! - Extremely tippy - Accurate videogame likeness - Under whelming
Playability: 4.5 out of 10 - Holsters easy to rip off - Accessories are tiny - Fits in with the other MGS2 figures - Suspenders can be snapped off (No, her pants do not fall down!)
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Olga and Metal Gear Ray (MGS2)
There’s a picture of me at age five wearing a pair of my dad’s hip waders (boots that go up to mid-torso and are kept on by suspenders). I’m holding the straps up over my head and my eyes are just visible. It’s one of those “cute” pictures that almost everyone has buried somewhere in their family albums. This is why it’s so surprising to see an action figure that emulates my hip waders picture.
Olga just looks silly – period. In fact, she’s totally under whelming in just about every category – except for her ties with the hit Metal Gear Solid 2, which is enough to bring her above average. Everything is adequate from the articulation to the paint because the sculpt so captures the video game likeness and there are no liberties taken to make her seem less silly. So I can’t fault McFarlane for nailing the likeness, but the articulation decisions are only average. One of Olga’s feet has a seam joint while her left foot has a hinge. Accompanied with the hinged knees (her left knee is actually double jointed!) and near ball-joint hips there are many stances possible – most of which are suitable action poses but she’s so damn tippy she won’t be standing long enough for you to stand back and admire your creativity.
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She comes with good accessories but you’ll lose them fast, especially the small laser sight for her handgun. The gun and knife fit well in her hand, more so than any other figure in the series. Olga also comes packed with the torso for Metal Gear Ray – which encourages people to buy her simply to finish Metal Gear Ray. (More on Ray later.)
Olga falls apart almost as well as Fortune. Here’s a list of pieces that can be easily torn off (by accident): her cap, knife holster, radio, gun holster, and suspenders. All can be lost quite easily too. Rough play is out of the question. (I’ve already Krazy |
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Glued her gun holster on three times and that isn’t even putting her through tough tests.) The articulation is good enough to allow many fantasy situations or recreating scenes from the video game. But who is really going to play with a slip of a girl in really big boots? She’s about as much fun to play with as Metal Gear Ray.
If you’ve bought all the MGS2 figures you’ll want to cap off your display with the bonus 7th figure, Metal Gear Ray assembled from the pieces packed with the figures. Thankfully, it’s very easy to assemble, unlike the nightmare scenario with Interlink Spawn. McFarlane has nailed the likeness, but Ray looked silly in the game, and looks sillier in action figure form – looks kind of like a goat-footed walrus. The front flippers are very loose (at least on the review figure) so getting Ray to actually stand for more than about three seconds is nearly impossible. The bendy tail, which is big and thick, can alleviate some of this. The head opens up like a sunflower just like it should. If you can get him to stand, he makes a good figure to prop behind your display of Metal Gear Solid figures. But playability… well, you’ll have to use your imagination. Even my son grew tired of Ray quickly. The final verdict is that I wouldn’t buy all the figures just to build Ray – it’s just a little bonus (no matter how silly looking).
In the end, Olga and Metal Gear Ray are just average figures with below average playability. One for the fans of Metal Gear Solid.
- Omni
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