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Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection Review (continued)
More User Submitted Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection Reviews
Date: 2008-05-19
Great Pack
If you like Metal Gear, this is great. of course if you have a PS3 you will see a huge difference in the graphics but is great to play again with the good snake in MG1 package ok for the price and the three games came with the booklets.
Great pack.
Date: 2008-05-16
Essentially Awesome
The Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection is a great way to play all that has come before the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4 is released.
I have heard alot of griping because the second disc from Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence is NOT included. Though I was a bit peeved about this at first, I do own an original copy of Subsistence which included the original versions of Metal Gear 1 and 2 from the Japanese MSX and I can understand Konami's decision in this regard.
The main draw of the 2nd disc of Persistence was Metal Gear Online. The serves have long been shut down and it would be pointless to release a game you can't even play any longer.
I've also heard much griping about Metal Gear Solid (1) being on two CD-ROM discs instead of a DVD-ROM. Use some logic here folks: Konami is giving you Three games for under $30. The original Metal Gear Solid is quite expensive and/or hard to find anymore. Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance is rather pricey for the PS2 version (the inferior Xbox version is fairly easy to find cheap). And even though the Persistence disc (disc 2) of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence is not included, all the changes made to the game (camera angles, etc.) ARE included on the disc.
For those new to the series or wanting to pick up the games again since they no longer have them, $10 a piece is pretty damn cheap! For those collector's out there like me, you are getting all three games with beautiful new artwork, Metal Gear Solid in a very nice DVD amaray-style case (yes!) and a cool slipcase to house it all.
If you are playing Metal Gear Solid (one) on a PS2, you will need a PSOne memory card as per usual with all PSOne games. It works just fine on a PS3 (any model) and you can set up a virtual memory card.
If you are playing Metal Gear Solid 2 on a PS2, you are good to go. If you are planning on playing it on a PS3, make sure you have either the 20, 60 or 80-gig models as the 40-gig model isn't backwards compatible.
If you are playing Metal Gear Solid 3 on a PS2, you are good to go as well. Again, you have to have a 20, 60 or 80-gig PS3 model (backwards compatible with PS2 software) to play it on the PS3.
I highly recommend this series to anyone. At $30, it's a bargain price. I would also recommend the Devil May Cry collection for $30 and the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy for $30. Tremendous deals, you are getting NINE games that originally cost over $450 for less than $90 now. That's an 80% discount folks!
Date: 2008-05-16
The Essential Collection
You have to consider this package a great deal. You are getting all three of the outstanding Metal Gear games for the same price the Metal Gear 3 Subsistence game alone.
The biggest knock on this deal is the fact it does not contain some of the extras that come with the other standalone packages. But you have to remember that this is the ESSENTIAL COLLECTION, not the ultra collection, or the super-duper amazing collection. It delivers on everything that it promises in providing the essentials, the main components of the games in the games themselves.
And since a "true" fan of the games would probably buy them as they come out, or at least buy them all individually, it is probably safe to look at this package as a way for people who have just recently gotten the gist of the series. Or those, like I, who are just getting around to enjoying these games.
Sure it would be nice to get all of the extra stuff that came along with the original packages, but you are looking at another three discs of content at least, which can seem a little excessive for a set like this.
So overall this is one of those offers that you really can't pass up if you a fan of video games, and want to enjoy one of the highest-rated, most established series on the market.
Date: 2008-05-14
A few things missing, but otherwise...
I love these games and a chance to get the director's cut version of 2 and 3 and have everything in one package is awesome. I just have a couple of complaints.
First off, I really wish they had taken the effort to put in the Twin Snakes version of Metal Gear Solid. Having the original version isn't really the same. I know it was originally supposed to be a Nintendo exclusive but come on. Or, if need be, include both the original version and the TS version.
Also, without the original NES games on a disc, this isn't really the Essential Collection. Or I guess it IS the "essentials" but it certainly isn't the Ultimate Collection, which is what I guess I was hoping for.
Date: 2008-05-14
True Classics
There really is not too much that has not already been said about this series...when it comes to espionage/action, I don't know that there is a better game out there! The first Metal Gear Solid was an experience like no other...the kind that commands at least a second go-through!
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