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Metal Gear

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Behold! The game that makes you use your mind--in addtion to your machine gun. Although DREADFULLY primitive by today's standards, Metal Gear was a powerful force in the days of the NES. When most games like Contra and Guerilla War (both good games)emphasized run and gun shooting, Metal Gear introduced a new idea: How about a game where you can use stealth and wit to get past your enemies? Needless to say, the idea worked EXTREMELY well. Even if you've played Metal Gear Solid, you'll feel right at home playing this game. Solid Snake starts off the game with nothing but his bare fists, radio, and he even managed to get his cigarettes. The guards aren't all that smart, but they do sleep, hit switches, patrol, and hone in on you when you accidentally fire an un-silenced weapon. The weapon variety is nice in this game, too. Handgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, mines, etc. There is also a large variety of items like oxygen tanks, door cards, cardboard box, rations, etc. The door card system is annoying, though, because you have 10 cards or so, and you have to patiently go through each one of them to find out which one opens what door. The graphics are nothing special, but the atmosphere will remind you of Metal Gear Solid. Music is only average as well. The storyline makes up for the other two, though. If you haven't played this great classic, you need to do so. You're missing out.

Although this game is made for regualar Nintendo, I love it because it is the start of a beautiful game sequence. For anyone who still has a NES laying around their house, I recommend this item for everyone over the age of six. You play as the super stealth soldier Solid Snake in stopping the nuclear weapon Metal Gear with over two hours of Metal Gear action.

Metal Gear is a must have for any Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid fan.

I love the Metal Gear Solid games that are currently on a PlayStation exclusive series.Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best game in the series yet,Metal Gear Solid 2 2nd and Metal Gear Solid third.I got my chance to play the original Metal Gear after i sold my old MGS3:Snake Eater and bought the new Subsistence edition which actually includes the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake amongst other features such as special theater,secret theater and Online mode aswell as the "Snake Eater" game.
Anyways Metal Gear is actually a good game,its the first mission Solid Snake does.He is sent to infiltrate a terrorist base under the commands of Big Boss(Big Boss is the protagonsit of MGS3).
He ultimately leads to meeting his first Metal Gear,which is called MG TX-55,aswell as finding himself infiltrating Outer Heaven.For an old 2D game from the 80`s-MG is quite a good game and I see that the newer 3D Metal Gear games are very faithful to the its roots.
The graphics are BLAH as its a goddamn 1980`s 2D game,its audio is typical,but the story and gameplay on to bad.
In the game as Snake you are not to be seen by an enemy guard,or else he will call his comrades to give you a hard time.You can use stealth,although its hard for a birdseye view game its still good to use.
Its canonical sequel-Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake,which is also included in the MGS3:Subsistence package,is a much better game than MG1,its a TRUE improvement.
So if you want to try MG1 and MG2:SS and you have a PS2,by all means buy Metal Gear Solid 3:Subsistence,which you also get Online and the Snake Eater game.MGS3:Subsistence is 30$,cheaper than usual new games.
THE METAL GEAR SERIES in release order,timeline order,updated versions/expansion packs and spin-off games:
(LONNNG!)
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RELEASE ORDER:
Metal Gear(MSX2,1987)
Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake(MSX2,1990)
Metal Gear Solid(PlayStation,1998)
Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons Of Liberty(PlayStation 2,2001)
Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater(PlayStation 2,2004)
Metal Gear Solid:Portable Ops(PSP,winter 2006)
Metal Gear Solid 4:Guns of The Patriots(PlayStation 3,Q3/Q4 2007)
(thats the series so far)

Timeline order:
Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater,set during August 1964
Metal Gear Solid:Portable Ops,set during 1970
Metal Gear,set during 1995
Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake,set during 1999
Metal Gear Solid,set in 2005
Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons Of Liberty,set in 2007/2009.
Metal Gear Solid 4:Guns Of the Patriots,set in 2015.

Updated versions/Expansion packs:
Metal Gear Solid:VR Missions(exp pack to Metal Gear Solid)
Metal Gear Solid:The Twin Snakes(2003,GameCube,its a remake of Metal Gear Solid)
Metal Gear Solid 2:Substance(PS2/XBOX/PC,2002)
Metal Gear Solid 3:Subsistence(PS2,2006)

Spin-off games:
Metal Gear:Snakes Revenge(NES,1989)
Metal Gear:Ghost Babel(GameBoy Color,1999)
Metal Gear AC!D(PSP,2004)
Metal Gear AC!D 2(PSP,2006)

Thats as much as the series game I can say
But i`ve tried every one of those games i`ve mention,obviously excluding MGS4 and MGS:Portable Ops,which are not out yet,and they are all worth a review rating of over 8.5!
bye.

This is one of the first games I received for the Nintendo when I was a child. I had no idea what Metal Gear was or what the series would become. I just knew I had a new game and I wanted to play it. This was my first introduction to the character Solid Snake and his world of infiltration and tactical espionage.

In Metal Gear you play as Solid Snake, a rookie to the Fox Hound branch of the military. You are to infiltrate a jungle fortress called Outer Heaven and initially rescue Fox Hound members including one of the top operatives: Grey Fox. While it is always great fun to fight and to shoot the guards, it is more effective to be able to sneak around them (this will be perfected in later Metal Gear games). Stealth is important. Shooting with a weapon not equipped with a silencer is a risky move.

As you progress through Outer Heaven you are sent on further missions and must fight ever more difficult bosses (tanks, men with machine guns, etc). You begin the mission with nothing but your bare hands and a pack of cigarettes. As you continue to play, you must acquire various weapons and items and use them to progress through the game. While not as detailed as Metal Gear Solid (PSX), the original Metal Gear is a game worth playing for fans of the series (to get to experience the origins of the story discussed in later games) as well as for fans of classic Nintendo game.

Metal Gear was originally developed for the MSX (a computer popular in Japan and Europe from the mid-80's to early 90's) by famed designed Hideo Kojima. It was his first released title, and partially due to the limitations of the hardware at the time he was "forced" to create a new kind of war game, inventing the Tactical Espionage Action genre in the process.

The Japanese version received high praise, so it was translated to English and released in Europe. This version kept many of Kojima-san's ideas in place, but did not include the majority of the original text.

After release in Japan and Europe, Konami felt it was time to release the game on consoles and Metal Gear was "ported" to the Nintendo Entertainment System. They completely remade the game, trying to inject humor were it was not due and mocking what Kojima presented in story. This version was also noted for its atrocious translation, including such memorable lines as "I feel asleep!!" and "I goofed! The lorry have started to move!!!"

In conclusion, this really is a decent game, but is far overshadowed by Kojima's other games. After his MSX Metal Gear he went on to make the EXCELLENT Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake also for MSX, as America got the series black sheep Snake's Revenge. MG2 was only released in Japanese, but has since been unofficially translated to English - I recommend you look into it, as well as the first MSX game.

As far as a review, this game (like Snake's Revenge) starts out in a jungle and is fairly difficult to move through and reach the actual base. While Kojima's version had a stronger emphasis on stealth and intellect, this game is also not just a typical action game and does not completely go against the MSX game's style. If you cannot get a hold of Kojima's version this is a poor substitute but better then never experiencing the origin of the now blockbuster Metal Gear series.

Kojima is not happy with this port, but I, and the rest of North America (judging by sales figures), sure am! This game improves on some of the shortfalls of the original MSX version, for instance now you can press up on the wall and sneak by cameras which you couldn't do in the original. But make no mistake, this game is full of problems, fortunately they don't really detract from the game. For instance, in this NES port sometimes when you enter a room, be it from another room (screen) or sub-room (vehicle that you can enter on a screen), a guard will often be looking at that spot, in the MSX version much time was spent making sure that that did not happen, and that is what series creator Hideo Kojima was talking about when he said the stealth element was gone, if a guard automatically spots you how can you sneak past him? The biggest gripe people have with this game is that the boss fight with the Metal Gear is gone, but this didn't bother me one bit, it was not a very good boss fight, you simple put bombs on the feet of the Metal Gear in a certain order, the Metal Gear didn't even move (just sat there and shot lasers straight across the screen), so you aren't missing much in regards to this boss fight being toned down, in the NES version you do see a Metal Gear (albeit not in use) and you blow up a computer containing the technical specs needed to complete the Metal Gear. Rest easy because the best boss fight in the game is left untouched, the boss fight with Big Boss himself. This game is great, not getting it based on some Wikipedia articles or what Angry Video Game Nerd had to say about it would be a loss, because this is truly a great game and one of the best in the series.

revolutionary 8 bit predecessor of so much of today's gaming conventions.....

fantastic piece of vg history!

Read books on video game history, it's actually quite fascinating.

5 stars.

IT'S A FUN GAME. I LIKE FUN GAMES.

Buy this to add to your collection if you also own PS1 and PS2 so you know the full story line of METAL GEAR.

this game rules even tho i played the the emulated rom on the computer