Maybe it could have been presented better, but the amount of exposition it throws at you right away is astounding.
I can understand how players of that era in particular gravitated so strongly towards it because the story it tries to tell has so many layers to it.
For an era when video game narratives were just starting to dig deeper, the first hour of Metal Gear Solid goes all the way down the rabbit hole. I’ve been warned many times about how much watching you do in a Metal Gear Solid game, but I still wasn’t ready.Įven so, there are aspects to this game that are undeniably cool. During the 45 minutes or so I played about…10 minutes of that seemed to be actual gameplay. Oftentimes, literally telling you, through codecs and through conversations with others. Do you need to know the particular’s of Solid Snake’s suit being difficult to move in but specially-designed to keep him cold in Alaska? Or how he smuggled cigarettes through a strip search by hiding them in his stomach? Did we really need a detailed explanation of how technology allows him to communicate with his peers back at the base through a specially-designed technology that vibrates his eardrums without the need for an earpiece? It’s so…extra.Īt every turn, the game is telling you how crazy it is. In reality, the game absolutely drowns the player in exposition. That is my best explanation of the initial premise in the most basic of terms. Oh, and possibly shut down their nuclear weapons operation if they happen to be working on anything fishy. You play as Solid Snake, a soldier on a mission to save someone important from a terrorist base. Metal Gear Solid takes place at some point after the Metal Gear games on the NES. Metal Gear Solid 3 introduced players to the legendary soldier himself, Big Boss.Set during the Cold War, Snake is asked to infiltrate Russia to investigate his mentor's defection, gather information about the proto-Metal Gear, Shagohad, and uncover intel about the Philosopher's Legacy (an unimaginable sum of wealth stockpiled by allied nations during WWII). After really appreciating them, I've found that these two Metal Gear Solid games contain that special quality of a game that you could've easily played over and over as a kid.Should do at least a bit of setup for the two other people who aren’t familiar with the franchise. I plead guilty to this way of playing on some occasions, but I'm very glad I held back on that for my first playthroughs of the games. Returning to an intuitive and intelligent mode of gameplay, Konamis game developers have spent the last. Boiled down to its basics, Metal Gear Solid is Mission: Impossible (albeit for the Nintendo 64) done right.
For now, you can be very grateful that there is no letter ranking system in MGS2/MGS3.Īs an achievement hunting website, people have been known to have a reputation of trying to get the achievements in a game as fast as possible, and then move on to something else immediately some angrily call it "not enjoying the game". Yep, Metal Gear Solid is an action/adventure game thats sure to fuel PlayStation sales this holiday season. If you have the disc version of the HD Collection, you should also have the disc for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, but that has its own, separate achievement list and isn't in the same "game". As you may have seen on the way to the opening of this walkthrough, there's quite a lot to do if you want to fully complete this game. Hello, and welcome to the walkthrough for Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.