Metal Gear the story so far…

As promised I will provide the means to brush up on your Metal Gear knowledge on the internet and in any other ways I can think of. First off all, those who are not aware of this yet: Konami has released a standalone encyclopedia on the PSN store that includes all the information on the past titles and everything on the newest game. Still I would like to give you some links and possibilities to revisit the waste story of Solid Snake’s past. I will post them in chronological order (story wise).

Metal Gear Solid 3 – Snake Eater:

The limited edition of the Subsistence release of the game included a third DVD that had the cut scenes, some codec messages and the boss fights cut into a 3 hour movie.

The youtube user alexfung23 has added an extremely large collection of Metal Gear Walkthrough videos that include the whole game and are interesting if you want to see EVERYTHING that happened to Naked Snake. I created a playlist of MGS3: here.

Metal Gear Solid – Portable Ops:

There is sadly no video that I know of on the internet and no comic/novel depicting the events of this game.

Metal Gear 1+2 (MSX):

Here is another playlist created with the videos of alexfung23.

Metal Gear Solid:

Now this is the title you will probably find most ways to recap. First of all you can view the cutscenes and the codec messages when you have finished the remake Twin Snakes. Then there is the possibility to relive the events of Shadow Moses through the comic by Ashley Wood and Kris Oprisko, which was such a success that it was even released in a digital version for the PSP called Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel. This digital comic includes music and sound effects. It will be released with voiceovers on DVD once the second part including the digital comic of Sons of Liberty will hit the shelves.

The most recent addition to the Metal Gear Solid franchise is a novelization of the game by Raymond Benson.

And for all of you who still have not enough here is the playlist of Phoenix9215987’s videos.

Metal Gear Solid 2 – Sons of Liberty

MGS2 was also treated to a comic book again with the artwork of Ashley Wood and story adaptation by Alex Garner. The digital version has not yet been released but will probably include complete voiceovers by the cast of the game series.

Here is the final video playlist of alexfung23.

This is it. Several hours, if not days, worth of material for all of you who cannot get enough of the world that Hideo Kojima created over 20 years ago. I’m tempted to write a review on the newest title, but I’d also like to shift my attention to something else. So who knows…

Metal Gear: a retrospective

Most of you who are into games will probably have heard, or even anticipated the release of the latest Metal Gear Solid games. “Guns of the Patriots” is in fact the last game that will be spearheaded by Hideo Kojima himself, but in an interview he said he would be looking forward to a new generation of Metal Gear games by younger developers. Over 20 years ago Kojima pitched his idea of a sneaking based game to Konami and after some initial doubt the development firm agreed to producing the game, without knowing it would turn into one of the most important gaming franchises of our time. In Metal Gear initially released on the MSX2 in 1987, you control a special agent with the codename “Solid Snake” on a mission to infiltrate Outer Heaven, a fortified military state supposedly having a WMD. On this mission he is also supposed to rescue another agent (Gray Fox) that is held captive inside the base. It turns out that the WMD is in fact a bipedal walking tank called Metal Gear and the legendary mercenary leading the base is none other than Snake’s mentor Big Boss.

The game had such a success that a few years later Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was released (sadly only in Japan). Once again Snake has to infiltrate a base, but this time in the mercenary nation Zanzibarland. He is supposed to rescue a scientist who has developed a new way to refine petroleum in a very effective and cheap way. However during his mission he finds out that once again the real threat is a Metal Gear tank. He has a run-in with Gray Fox who has defected to Zanzibarland and also Big Boss survived the destruction of Outer Heaven to take revenge on Snake.

Gametrailers have created a recap anthology of the Metal Gear games which I will include with each small article on this page. Next up will be a revision of Snake’s first adventure on the Playstation called Metal Gear Solid.