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Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection

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Platform : PlayStation2

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Great Value with 3 Games at one value price.
Final chance to get fully immersed in the Metal Gear Solid Universe before the release of MGS 4.
Includes Directors Cut of Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance.
Includes Directors Cut of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence.
Special re-designed packaging artwork from renowned artist Shinkawa.

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Since its inception, the Metal Gear franchise has been one of the most successful game series on any console receiving worldwide recognition and praise. The franchise that pioneered the stealth action genre is back with Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection includes Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 for the very first time in one collectible package.

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Since its inception, the Metal Gear franchise has been one of the most successful game series on any console receiving worldwide recognition and praise. The franchise that pioneered the stealth action genre is back with Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection includes three classic Metal Gear games:

Metal Gear Solid

Lightly armed and facing an army of foes, Snake must avoid firefights in order to survive.
If Snake is discovered, he can utilize advanced weaponry, ranging from silenced pistols to ground-to-air missiles.
Enemies react to sight and sound.
State-of-the-art graphics: Textures, transparencies, models and explosions.
Suspenseful, gripping story with multiple endings for a truly cinematic experience.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

350+ VR missions and 150+ alternative missions.
Play through 5 "Snake Tales" levels involving Solid Snake.
Skateboarding mode lets you explore the Big Shell as Raiden or Snake.
Utilize stealth and infiltration methods, such as diving somersaults, hanging from ledges and using disguises.
Fully interactive environments- bullets pierce steam pipes, smoke reveals laser beams and wet shoes leave footprints.
Powerful musical score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

Relive history as the cold war and geo-political landscape change.
Outsmart enemies with camouflage, close-quarters combat, stalking, interrogating, climbing, hunting and treating injuries.
Pit yourself against an environment where traps catch enemies and prey, threats lurk in the shadows, and noise alert predators.
Epic musical score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock) and immersive Dolby Prologic II surround sound.

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B001383L36

Release date

March 18, 2008

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266 ratings

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#47,614 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#941 in PlayStation 2 Games

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Product Dimensions

7.5 x 5.5 x 2 inches; 1.02 Pounds

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Mature

Item model number

25078

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Item Weight

1.02 pounds

Manufacturer

Konami

Date First Available

January 29, 2008

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Patrick_91

Definitely A 'Solid' Purchase

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2009

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Allow me to start out by saying, I'm a recent MGS fan,I bought MGS 2&3 off of a friend for cheap,and bought the essential collection just for MGS 1 (The original release of MGS goes for $30 used anyway)

This bundle is perfect if you didn't quite understand everything in MGS 4 or are just missing even one MGS. MGS 2&3 are the special re-releases of the original's. One common complaint is that MGS 3 doesn't include the 2nd disc,I see were you guys are coming from (not being able to play Metal Gear 1&2) But you have to understand that the 2nd disc was mainly for MGO (Metal Gear Online) And it would have been useless to include a disc for servers that are no longer online.

What I really like about this bundle is the redesigned cases for all three MGS's gives it something a little more unique, and all the discs are one color,witch is a nice touch.

As seen in some of the pictures above MGS 1 is the PS1 ORIGINAL. Not a single pixel has been touched (aka-this does not include the Gamecube remake) and its still on 2 CD-Roms. One thing that really makes me mad is people saying "I didn't really get into MGS 1 because the graphics were crap." Guys,this game is from 1998, Kojima used the hardware available to its fullest and you would be hard pressed to find a better looking game from the PS1 era (with the exception of FF9 witch was released right at the end of the PS1's life )If you give the game a chance,you will see that it trumps MGS 2&3 and is, in my book tied with MGS 4.

The only thing that I don't like about this bundle is that the games aren't individually shrink wrapped.(Nitpicking here) Whereas the other essential collections are.

Overall PERFECT if you want to enter the world of MGS and with the recent news of MGS 4 going greatest hits(witch is now at the budget minded price of $27.99) you can have the whole collection for under $70!

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Excellent Collection

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2008

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I ordered this for my hubby for Fathers Day, he has never played any of the Metal Gear games before. I had previously owned the first and second in the series, but they had long since been "borrowed" and not returned. Since we ordered the PS3 Metal Gear Solid Pack I decided this would be a good buy.

First of all, the games come in a small cardboard case to hold the 3 ps2 game cases. Even though MS1 is a PS1 game, it is in a PS2 style case so that they can all stay together in the box. This means that the artwork is different than on the originals of each of these games. I personally don't care but just in case you do - now you've been told.

Each game comes with it's own manual as well as the ingame help we are all used to for the first couple of scenes. This is an excellent collection for the price, and I would highly advise the purchase if you like this type of game.

The only negatives I have are
1) the game controls take a while to get used to
2) The PS1 game of MGS1 will NOT play in either of our PS2's. Our PS3 should arrive soon so hopefully it will play in that since that was my favorite of the games anyway. I am told that this is a fairly common problem, however my PS2's will play all of our other PS1 games without incident. I am told that this can be fixed by placing "Tape" on the top of the CD however I have yet to attempt this experiment.

**UPDATE**
We just received our PS3 and it WILL play Metal Gear Solid 1 quite happily. Apparently it just didn't want to play in the PS2s that we have.

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Magus

Liquid Snake

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2008

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Well I played Metal Gear Solid 4, and after I beat it I wanted to know more of the back story. I looked up Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection, for this offered $30 for all 3 games. This was perfect, no searching around everywhere buying separate overpriced games.

MGS1 was early PSX technology, it was one of the newer 3d games at the time. Like all MGS's it's mainly stealth gameplay. The enemy soldiers are the easiest of the MG series. It's a good introduction into the gameplay until later titles. Your main character is Solid Snake who has to rescue 2 hostages, but the mission becomes much more. He has to stop the Metal Gear, a weapon of destruction. The villians in this one as well as other Metal Gear's are strange and introduce you to their back stories along the way. You'll meet up with Meryl in the game, a lady soldier who helps you out at times. This game is actually my 2nd favorite MGS game after 4.

MGS2 has some mixed reviews, let's just say you won't play Snake the whole time. You'll also play as Raiden a new soldier being sent out to rescue the president, and prevent an explosion and environmental disaster on a water base. You do get the impression of him being a rookie, he complains at times, and seems to be learning with each new sitution. He's an ok character to me.

The thing I don't like in this game mainly for me is the base itself, it seems like your going back and forth in circles. Like go to Strut A and to Core 2, to Strut AB. You do this alot. The spy robot are also a pain, I prefered the cameras. Now the story is good, like the other MGS's. This is the least favorite game still out of the series, not good exactly overall but ok.

MGS 3 is the hardest out of all MGS's for me. I've died quite alot. You play Big Boss when he was younger, known now as the original Snake. You'll have a lot of enemies bunched together. It's a harder to stealth enemies. You have the added camoflouge in this game accordingly to the envirionment your in. For example dirt plantless environment, dark, forest, etc. The enemies are hard to see themselves, they take on the color of their environment. This game has the best story in my opinion, but it's hard and can be frustating.

The enemies in this are crazy as always, a guy with bees and a 100 year old sniper or some of them. In all the MGS's you get a radar, in this game you only get sonar. The sonar you have to click the R3 button, so it's tougher in this one. You can change the camera angle in this subsitence version, the older MGS 3 you couldn't. The camera change in this does help somewhat.

There's just no beating this deal. If your interested in even 1 MGS game, just get the whole pack it's $30 anyways. I'm glad I have the whole story line now, and going through them a second time should be easier. Remember some of them you get away less with stealth than others, so be wary. I really enjoyed this series.

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