Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Released2011
From the critically acclaimed director, Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection offers a handful of the most popular Metal Gear Solid titles from the past in true HD for the first time ever. Featuring three complete games, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the HD Collection offers old and new fans a chance to experience the epic game play, design and storytelling of the MGS franchise. The "Metal Gear Solid (MGS)" series is the seminal work of Hideo Kojima, Japan's master game creator, and the progenitor of the stealth action game genre. The series has become a global phenomenon, with over 27 million copies sold worldwide. The player controls a secret agent from an elite special forces unit who is sent on solo sneaking missions through enemy installations, vast jungles, and sometimes even the thick of battle. Alone and surrounded by the enemy, even a special forces agent will find it tough to come out alive. But that is the secret behind the series' popularity-the cerebral challenge of figuring out how to avoid combat, and the thrill of sneaking through enemy territory undetected.The MGS series is also known for its storyline, which blends seamlessly with the gameplay. The scenarios are based on extensive research and incorporate the drama of actual developments in society. These elements have made MGS what it is today: a mature work of entertainment that transcends national borders and the confines of video games, and one of the leading products of the Japanese content business.
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DeveloperKojima Productions
PublisherKonami
ReleasedNovember 8, 2011
StatusReleased
GenresShooterTacticalAdventure
ThemesActionStealth
PlatformsPlayStation 3 PlayStation 3Xbox 360 Xbox 360PlayStation Vita PlayStation Vita
ModesSingle player

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Highly Recommended85/100

About This Game

Metal Gear Solid 2: Two years after the Shadow Moses Incident, Solid Snake and Otacon — operating as Philanthropy — receive intelligence about a new Metal Gear being moved up the Hudson River. As Snake boards the tanker, it's hijacked by Russian mercenaries under Revolver Ocelot, who intend to steal the new machine. Two years later still, the offshore cleanup facility called the Big Shell, built on the site, is seized by a terrorist faction styling themselves the Sons of Liberty, and new FOXHOUND operative Raiden is sent to neutralize the threat — though nothing is as it appears. Metal Gear Solid 3: In 1964, CIA agent Naked Snake is dispatched to Tselinoyarsk in the USSR. Backed by Major Zero, Para-Medic, and his former mentor The Boss, he's tasked with rescuing the defecting Soviet scientist Sokolov, secretly developing a nuclear-armed tank, the Shagohod. Snake locates and escorts Sokolov but encounters The Boss, who declares she is defecting to the USSR and hands her new patron, Colonel Volgin, two Davy Crockett nuclear shells. Sokolov is recaptured by the Cobra Unit, Snake is thrown off a bridge by The Boss, and Volgin seizes the Shagohod and detonates one of the shells to cover the theft — blamed on The Boss — while the injured Snake is recovered by fulton extraction. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Beginning on November 4, 1974, Peace Walker finds Big Boss running his own mercenary unit in Colombia after leaving the United States in the wake of FOXHOUND's formation at the close of Portable Ops. A mysterious paramilitary group, the "Peace Sentinels," lavishly armed with quality weapons, has deployed in Costa Rica, whose constitution forbids an official military, leaving the government powerless against a force with the firepower of a land army — a presence that threatens the balance of power between East and West.