Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid

Released1998
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game created by Hideo Kojima which follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Despite a transition to 3D, Metal Gear Solid's gameplay remains similar to his predecessors. The game utilizes a traditional top-down view and the player must navigate the protagonist Solid Snake through the game's areas without being detected. Detection will set off an alarm which draws armed enemies to his location. Conversations with Snake's allies and cutscenes are used extensively to advance the plot and gain more insight into it. Metal Gear Solid is regarded as one of the greatest and most important video games of all time, and helped popularize the stealth genre and in-engine cinematic cutscenes.
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Details

DeveloperKonami Computer Entertainment Japan
PublisherKonami
ReleasedSeptember 3, 1998
StatusReleased
GenresShooterTacticalAdventure
ThemesActionScience fictionSurvivalStealth
PlatformsPlayStation PlayStationPlayStation 3 PlayStation 3PlayStation Portable PlayStation Portable
ModesSingle player

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Community Score
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About This Game

Metal Gear Solid plays out in an alternate timeline where the Cold War dragged on into the 1990s before finally cooling near the century's end. Coaxed out of retirement, elite operative Solid Snake is sent to confront rogue elements of FOXHOUND, a top-tier government anti-terror unit now threatening to launch a nuclear strike on the White House unless they are paid a one-billion-dollar ransom. With just 24 hours to dismantle the threat, Snake must slip behind enemy lines, free two hostages, and unravel the terrorists' plot. Old ghosts rise to test him along the way, pushing his resolve as a soldier to its limit as he fights to spare the world from nuclear catastrophe.