It's a good game to play for those who aren't familiar, with certain key characters that pop up in Metal Gear Solid V, such as Paz. The first two Metal Gear Solid games were largely linear stories that tackled each section by offering players a choice of how to engage. Metal Gear Solid 3 took the concept much farther by throwing players into the jungle and forcing them to rely on the environment in order to complete their mission. As such, it was the beginning of the series, moving away from the traditional formula into a more open-world approach.
By today's standards, it still feels condensed, but for fans who had mastered Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 , it was a welcome improvement. It also marked the shift in narrative towards Big Boss, as opposed to Solid Snake. Clearly, the most ambitious Metal Gear Solid game of the bunch, The Phantom Pain is the culmination of everything Hideo Kojima set out to accomplish with the stealth-action series.
It was the first game to offer players a completely non-linear approach when it came to mission directives and goals. Unfortunately, the game lost a lot of exposition in the process. The story took a backseat to gameplay as gamers concentrated on finding new ways to defeat foes, tackle challenges and build up their army. Part stealth action-adventure and part resource management game, The Phantom Pain wasn't perfect, but it was clearly a semi-flawed recipe for success.
Guns of the Patriots had one major goal in mind - to wrap up the Solid Snake story arc, once and for all. It was an ambitious title, set on shaky footing due to the leap backward in time that occurred in Metal Gear Solid 3. Yet, this highly anticipated game hit the PS3 with full thunder, and the rest is history.
The narrative is so grandiose that it's hard to follow at times, particularly when it comes to the long cutscenes.
In between all the talking, there's one heck of an incredible stealth tactics game for players to enjoy. It's epic, and its reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, but Metal Gear Solid 4 is a spectacular game all around. Though Metal Gear Solid 3 made a good enough splash on its own, it was marred by aging gameplay mechanics that detracted away from the diverse open world that it was boasting. Subsistence fixed that by integrating a dynamic new camera system into the game, including a few discs worth of bonuses for Metal Gear Solid fans to entertain themselves with.
Gamers who want the definitive edition should definitely pick it up, as there's a lot to unpack and enjoy. The first Metal Gear Solid game was amazing on so many levels, and it's still the entry that other chapters are based on.
It was the first game to revive an old Konami property without dismissing everything that came before it. As such, Metal Gear Solid was a continuation of the classic Metal Gear games, rather than a reimagining. It also propelled the first PlayStation to the forefront of the video game console wars, giving it a major win.
The mixture of high-octane action, adrenaline-pumping stealth mechanics and memorable story helped "solidify" Metal Gear Solid as the action franchise to beat. It's still a masterpiece despite its aged play mechanics and graphics, and no subsequent sequel has quite managed to balance all the elements so perfectly. Fans whose love for Metal Gear Solid were eager to get their hands on the sequel, and it delivered. It wasn't a perfect experience, however. Many gamers were angry when they learned that Solid Snake would not be the game's primary protagonist.
We will still point out those games for our readers to see! Released in for the MSX2 , Metal Gear followed the story of Solid Snake , as he infiltrates the fortress of Outer Heaven to find and destroy the Metal Gear, a bipedal weapon capable of launching nuclear strikes. With overhead camera perception and stealth mechanics , the game was a big hit in Japan, being on the Top 20 best selling MSX games for 5 months. Its success produced two different sequels.
One was directed by Hideo Kojima. The other was an independent project, only released in the Western markets with Kojima being unaware of its existence for a while. Gameplay-wise, the game stays true to the original, with the same stealth mechanics applying to the sequel as well.
Hideo Kojima had no idea about the development of the game, and according to the rumors, he learned about its existence by one of the new developers. Then proceeded to develop his own true sequel; Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. The first time the Western market reached to the game was much later, with the release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, which also included Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 as bonus content.
Set a few years after the original, in a place called Zanzibar Land , the game improved almost every inconvenience that the original had, with the stealth mechanics being prominent.
In addition, the storyline was improved a lot, along with the addition of themes of warfare and nuclear proliferation. One of the most critically acclaimed games of the first PlayStation console, Metal Gear Solid was a masterpiece that influenced countless games for the years to come. Set in , six years after the events of Metal Gear 2, following the role of Solid Snake once again in order to infiltrate a remote Alaskan nuclear base in the island of Shadow Moses.
The game featured 3D environment , although it retained most of its overhead camera perspective. The Soliton Rader was also introduced, as well as new mechanics such as Alert Mode.
We should also mention the amazing soundtracks the game featured and, that we — the die-hard fans — silently still sing to this day! Ghost Babel was the first game of the series to be released on a handheld console which was the Gameboy Color.
The game is set seven years after the events of the original Metal Gear but is considered non-canon, as it is taking place in an alternate continuity. While the game has many similarities to Metal Gear 2, it has some added elements, such as 8 direction movement , screen scrolling instead of flip — screens as well as being able to hug walls like in Metal Gear Solid.
We could talk about this game for hours, days even. It is my personal favorite game of the series after all. Raiden is an amazing character that was meant to be in later games. The story will follow the return of many familiar characters and will definitely hit the player with some unexpected plot-twists. It has a great duration and we urge everyone that will play it to pay attention to every cutscene and dialogue.
We guarantee that the storyline will blow your mind! A year later after its release, the Substance version was released. It is basically an extended version that contains VR Missions, Alternative Missions as well as some extra game modes like Snake Tales, which are missions set in areas of the game with Solid Snake as the main character.
These missions are non-canonical. Start it up and get pumped by the amazing intro soundtrack which will have you saluting and will haunt you for years to come! Although the story is pretty much the same as the original, The Twin Snakes added some major gameplay-changing elements, for instance, you could now enter the First-Person mode like you could in MGS2.
They also improved the AI so that enemies could now communicate with each other and detect you more efficiently. The best improvement is the voice acting. And this one, my friends, if you ask me, is one of the greatest videogames of all time. Set in , the game spans over two missions: Virtuous Mission prologue and Operation Snake Eater main game. A tale of loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice. A story that is crafted masterfully and will get you hooked from the beginning.
Gameplay wise, MGS3 is an innovator for its time. Countless mechanics were added, more notably, the camouflage, depending on the area. For example, you can use a different camo suit for hiding in the grass and another one for hiding on rocks. Another major gameplay addition is the animals and the plants. You can capture and eat wild animals as well as plants in order to restore stamina. Also, the jungle can be used in order to traverse and stay hidden by climbing trees.
An injury treatment system was also added. There are many cases in which Snake can get injured for different reasons, like poison or a broken leg or even by taking a bullet. The system asks you to treat these injuries yourself, and if left untreated there will be consequences.
It is a turn-based collectible card RPG and its story is considered non-canon. Set in , a plane carrying an important politician is hijacked by terrorists. They demand from the US Government to reveal a study that was being conducted in Africa. The US sends in Solid Snake to infiltrate the research facility and learn everything about the project and rescue the politician that is captivated. While the game was not close to the previous ones, as the gameplay was extremely different.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a fantastic game, though it can be called a little tedious with some of the mechanics it introduces. This is the game that redefined the franchise from the NES days. It went from a top-down game to a 3D game, and it did it masterfully. This is where we really got into the craziness of the Metal Gear story, which ultimately became the thing that brought Metal Gear to prominence. Choosing between this and the original Metal Gear Solid was incredibly tough. Ultimately, the more modern gameplay offered in MGS4 ends up putting this one just ahead.
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