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Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection Review (continued)
More User Submitted Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection Reviews
Date: 2008-06-30
Three Great Games for One Great Price
The Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection is just that... essential. Coming just in time for the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, the purpose of this is to let those who want to absorb the story of the saga do so to refresh their minds for the concluding events of Metal Gear Solid 4.
The Metal Gear Solid saga centers primarily on an operative named Solid Snake. The first game chronicles his mission through Shadow Moses Island where he has to stop his former unit Fox-Hound from launching a Nuclear Weapon: Metal Gear. As he undergoes the mission, he discovers many revelations about himself and what the meaning of his very life could be.
Metal Gear Solid 2 picks up the story two years later in which Snake and friend Otacon form a non-profit organization known as Philanthropy. They're mission is to get photographic evidence that the military is developing a new type of Metal Gear. Unfortunately the Tanker Mission doesn't go as planned. Two years later, a Plant is built where the Tanker went down and players were treated to one of Metal Gear Solid 2's most controversial plot twists, they discovered they would not be playing the rest of the game as Solid Snake and they'd be playing as an operative named Raiden. Like Snake, Raiden's mission unravels many revelations about him. The second installment, in particular, showers some of the best plot twists in the series.
Metal Gear Solid 3, on the other hand, takes the series back to the very beginning where you control an operative named Naked Snake, who will eventually go on to be known through the series as Big Boss. During his mission he is sent to save an Operative named Sokolov before Colonial Volgin can get to him. Much like Metal Gear Solid 2, the game is divided into two parts, and the first part is a failure only for the second part to be one of redemption.
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is famous for its storyline of Solid Snake and other characters. The essential collection gives anyone a chance to relive the story with each episode back to back to back. Every story is told through amazing cutscenes with great voice acting. While some of the story sequences can get a little long (especially in Metal Gear Solid 2) they're filled with great direction and a lot of story to absorb. And you'll want to absorb as much as you can, because Metal Gear Solid 4 will reference all three games.
The gameplay has also been very memorable, evolving throughout the series. Along those lines, each game never makes you go about each situation the same way. There are numerous ways to approach each situation, and with several difficulty levels (coupled with a few other extras in the second and third games) each game demands replay. Even better is that for Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 we got the Substance and Subsistence variants respectively.
If there was anything wrong with this collection, it would be that Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence doesn't include the second disc. While it's true, Metal Gear Online is taken down for Subsistence, the second disc did include the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. These are two games that can really help add to the Metal Gear saga. It's a small price, but for those who didn't own the original Subsistence and wanted to play the original two games, just know you won't get them with this collection. However, this probably won't be seen as a big loss anyway. The story of Metal Gear Solid can be well understood without the two original games.
If you don't own the Metal Gear Solid games and you'd like to know the story, this is a good investment. The fact that you'll get Substance and Subsistence rather than just the original Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater make this a very good deal indeed.
Date: 2008-06-29
Three games for a fairly good price....
Metal Gear Solid is a unique series of games. The series can appeal to a wide range of audiences: rpg fans to the hardcore action fans. The games are heavy in scenes, dialog, and action. It rewards more on stealth than direct action which causes players to think more about moving around than other games. The Essential Collection is a collection of the Metal Gear Solid series. It comes with three games: Metal Gear Solid 1 for the Playstation 1, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 for the Playstation 2.
A review of each game.
Metal Gear Solid 1: This is the original game from the Playstation 1 platform. Some of you may have played the remake on the Gamecube. This isn't the remake. It's the original game that was released 10 years ago on the Playstation 1 platform. The game is amazing even at the time of its release. Watch out though: if this is your first time playing, you might find the graphics need to be getting used to. This is a Playstation 1 game, by the way. Every ps3 should be able to play this game.
Metal Gear Solid 2: This is the second game. This is the special edition of the game that was released after the original. It comes with loads of extras that the original didn't have. Basically, this is the complete version of Metal Gear Solid 2. I heard they cut out a few scenes in the game, but I haven't noticed anything wrong really. Also, PS3 owners of Sixaxis controllers, beware that there is a part in the game where the vibration function is needed. I don't think it is important to the story as I completed it, but you're going to miss out on it if you don't have the vibration. I heard you can turn off vibration and it works differently, but I haven't tested yet.
Metal Gear Solid 3: This is a step back in the timeline. This goes before all of the events in Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2. You look back in the past and it sort of fill gaps in the stories. I played this one first when it came out. This was my first Metal Gear Solid, and honestly, I was quite confused with some of the things in the story. I honestly think if this is your first time playing the series, you should go in order of release. The Metal Gear Solid 3 game is the special version of the game that was released. You get a cool free camera, which is a first of the Metal Gear Solid series. It's quite cool to free float the camera instead of having a fixed bird eyes view when moving. Some of you may have the special edition with two discs. Be warned, do not trade it in if you like the second disc as the Essential Collection only contains the first disc.
Overall, you'll love this collection. It's quite good for the money. Honestly, if you're planning to buy it, you better get it fast. Something tells me that this is in limited production and might become hard to find in the near future.
Date: 2008-06-26
Main reason
The main reason i bought this collection is to get the first Metal Gear Solid, it was the only one i need to complete my collection (original ps edition), i think the relation price-product is pretty good, really good for starters, awesome for hardcore fans.
Date: 2008-06-25
Metal Gear Rocks
Metal Gear is one of my favorite series, and when I found out their was a box set of the first three I had to have it.
Date: 2008-06-17
An Essential Collection
This is, all in all, a fantastic way to get caught up on what is easily the most epic and well-crafted video game franchise in history. You will need both a PS1 and PS2 memory card, but that's a small price to pay to experience this series from this early point.
My only gripe is that the second disc from MGS3 wasn't included, as that one included lots of additional content that I would have liked to have. Still, for the price it's hard to go wrong.
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