A british magazine has had an in depth preview as well as playing the latest build of the game, here are my views which i have copied and pasted from another site where I originally posted them. They had a ten mintue in game video of the latest build too and I've watched it.
I've just got back from watching the MGS video, what can I say, BLOODY BRILLIANT. The relections in the water are stunning, the snow effects are great the way it melts on your scope when it hits, really really good. The shadows are present, I noticed them on both Snake and the soldiers. *slobbers*
Well the video is of some one just messing around in the dock and helipad area (he has no clue what to do though), the video does look brilliant but it isnt the best of quality, abit grainy to tell how good the visuals really are but the textures are great, from the walls and floor. The Snake model is brilliant, detailed outfit with folds in the right areas his face is modelled brillianty with shadows in all the right places much better than the SOL model and in the preview they say that pillars and other structures are fully solid models and can be shot through when shot at enough leaving less areas solid hiding places. The chap who was playing knocked an enemy out and picked him then went into first person mode and used him has cover, the textures on the soldiers clothes were also pretty good ie folds on the masks and clothes. Alot of the gaurds were armed with clear bullet proof sheilds which look great and also make it harder to knocked them out using the M9. A great video, I cant wait to see more