Metal gear solid franchise
Author: w | 2025-04-25
World-renowned Kojima Productions showcases the latest masterpiece in the Metal Gear Solid franchise with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Metal Gear Solid
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To say that the Metal Gear franchise is one of the most influential in all of gaming would be underselling the series quite a bit. Unfortunately, despite the massive success of just about every game in the franchise from the first Metal Gear Solid onwards, quite a few titles were only really playable on old hardware from a few generations ago, or if you’re the adventurous type, through emulation. Now we have the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, which brings to all modern platforms 3 games that are considered to be not only excellent titles in their own right, but also incredibly influential and important to the console generations they were released on. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is headlined by the first three mainline 3D games—Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater—along with the MSX versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2, as well as the NES version of the 1987 classic and Snake’s Revenge. The collection also features quite a few goodies that we’ll go into over the course of this review. To most video game fans out there, it’s no secret why the Metal Gear franchise is held in such incredibly high regard by just about everyone. While the franchise has been far from the most complex stealth games out there—Thief outdid the original Metal Gear Solid in just about every aspect in terms of gameplay—but it is important to note the historic impact these World-renowned Kojima Productions showcases the latest masterpiece in the Metal Gear Solid franchise with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Metal Gear Solid World-renowned Kojima Productions showcases another masterpiece in the Metal Gear Solid franchise with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Find any new complaints. If you can get used to the rather primitive controls of the original, the interesting control scheme of Metal Gear Solid 2, and the incredibly complex (even by today’s standards) control scheme of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you’re going to have an absolute blast. Performance on all of these games are essentially how you remember them, with Metal Gear Solid notably running at 30 frames per second. It is also interesting to note that Metal Gear Solid goes to great lengths to emulate the feeling of playing the game on a PSOne, giving you access to the old memory card storage screen, as well as the ability to swap your controller port—the latter option being incredibly important. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, on the other hand, make use of the version from the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection from the PS3 and Xbox 360, which means that they run at a stable frame rate of 60 FPS. Since modern controllers don’t feature the pressure sensitive controls of the PS2 and PS3, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater makes use of the L3 and R3 buttons for some of the more complex combat options you might want to use. Both of the titles also benefit quite a bit from running off an SSD, with loading times being almost non-existent. "There are also quite a few gameplay extras that make revisiting the franchise a lot of fun." The only real downside of Metal Gear Solid:Comments
To say that the Metal Gear franchise is one of the most influential in all of gaming would be underselling the series quite a bit. Unfortunately, despite the massive success of just about every game in the franchise from the first Metal Gear Solid onwards, quite a few titles were only really playable on old hardware from a few generations ago, or if you’re the adventurous type, through emulation. Now we have the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, which brings to all modern platforms 3 games that are considered to be not only excellent titles in their own right, but also incredibly influential and important to the console generations they were released on. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is headlined by the first three mainline 3D games—Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater—along with the MSX versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2, as well as the NES version of the 1987 classic and Snake’s Revenge. The collection also features quite a few goodies that we’ll go into over the course of this review. To most video game fans out there, it’s no secret why the Metal Gear franchise is held in such incredibly high regard by just about everyone. While the franchise has been far from the most complex stealth games out there—Thief outdid the original Metal Gear Solid in just about every aspect in terms of gameplay—but it is important to note the historic impact these
2025-04-01Find any new complaints. If you can get used to the rather primitive controls of the original, the interesting control scheme of Metal Gear Solid 2, and the incredibly complex (even by today’s standards) control scheme of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you’re going to have an absolute blast. Performance on all of these games are essentially how you remember them, with Metal Gear Solid notably running at 30 frames per second. It is also interesting to note that Metal Gear Solid goes to great lengths to emulate the feeling of playing the game on a PSOne, giving you access to the old memory card storage screen, as well as the ability to swap your controller port—the latter option being incredibly important. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, on the other hand, make use of the version from the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection from the PS3 and Xbox 360, which means that they run at a stable frame rate of 60 FPS. Since modern controllers don’t feature the pressure sensitive controls of the PS2 and PS3, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater makes use of the L3 and R3 buttons for some of the more complex combat options you might want to use. Both of the titles also benefit quite a bit from running off an SSD, with loading times being almost non-existent. "There are also quite a few gameplay extras that make revisiting the franchise a lot of fun." The only real downside of Metal Gear Solid:
2025-04-05Big Boss (a.k.a. Naked Snake)File:Big Boss (Metal Gear).jpg Big Boss was illustrated in Metal Gear Solid by Yoji Shinkawa. Although the character never actually appeared in the game, this illustration is used in the instruction manual and other official publications.SeriesMetal Gear seriesFirst gameMetal GearCreated byHideo KojimaDesigned byYoji Shinkawa (character design)Voiced by (English)David Hayter (MGS3, MPO, PW)Richard Doyle (MGS4)Voiced by (Japanese)Akio Ōtsuka (MGS3, MPO, PW)Chikao Ōtsuka (MGS4)Motion capture actor(s)Mizuho Yoshida (MGS3)Akio Ōtsuka (MGS4)Fictional informationReal nameJohn[1][2]Also known asJack (nickname),[3] Naked Snake (MGS3), One Eyed Man (MG2), Saladin (MGS),NationalityAmericanAffiliationsGreen Berets (Pre-MGS3), FOX (MGS3), FOXHOUND (MPO, MG), The Patriots (post-MPO/pre-PW), Militaires Sans Frontières (MGS: PW), Outer Heaven (MG), Zanzibar Land (MG2).Big Boss (ビッグ・ボス Biggu Bosu?) is a recurring fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear video game franchise. He is first introduced in the original Metal Gear as the commanding officer of protagonist Solid Snake, only to be revealed as the leader of the enemy forces as well, a role he would resume in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Big Boss would play a key role in the backstory of the series beginning with the first Metal Gear Solid, where he is revealed to be the genetic father of Solid Snake along with his other clone sons, Liquid and Solidus.In addition to his role in the sequels, Big Boss also appears as the protagonist in a series of prequels set before the events of the original Metal Gear (beginning with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, followed by Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker), where he is depicted as an American covert operative codenamed Naked Snake (ネイキッド・スネーク Neikiddo Sunēku?), the partial namesake of Solid Snake and his brothers. As Naked Snake, the character is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese and David Hayter in English. In his appearance in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Big Boss was voiced by Chikao Ōtsuka (Akio Ōtsuka's father) in the Japanese version and Richard Doyle in the English version.Metal Gear[]Big Boss first appears in the original Metal Gear as the leader of the Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND and Solid Snake's commanding
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