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Metal Gear Solid - If It Wasn't Essential Before, It Sure Is Now

February 05, 2008 in News comments 22

Metal Gear Solid just got more essential with the Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection. A combination of all Metal Gear Solid games thus far (from 1 to 3) and that too for your PS2 so you can experience the fun if you haven't had the chance to already, or if you want a quick rewind.

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today confirmed speculation that Metal Gear Solid ®: the Essential Collection is currently planned for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Now Metal Gear Solid fans have the final chance to fully immerse themselves in the Metal Gear Solid universe before the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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  • 0
    Storm Feb 5, 08
    Sweet. They did the same thing with the Devil May Cry series, releasing the three games (DMC3 being special edition) for only $30.
  • -1
    Seeker X Feb 5, 08
    Except this package is actually worth it.
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    iLLmatic Feb 5, 08
    I wish they would put Metal Gear Solid on PSN. I really want it on my PSP.
    • 0
      Krunal Feb 5, 08
      You know you can play PSX games on your PSP right? (Though you do need a 60GB/80GB PS3, which I assume you have...)
      • 1
        Existenz Feb 5, 08
        He knows that but you can't have any PSX game on the PSP if they don't have it up for download.
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          Krunal Feb 6, 08
          No, you can, you can buy the game, put it into your PS3 and run it off your PSP without the downloaded version.
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      StarJet Feb 6, 08
      Ok. You (I mean iLLmatic) were the guy who bashed homebrew at General PSP, weren't you? If you had a custom firmware, you could get the Metal Gear Solid discs, rip them to hard disk of PC and then transferred to PSP.
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        iLLmatic Feb 6, 08
        No I never bashed homebrew. It annoyed me to hear people say the PSP is worthless without homebrew and I said that isn't even the purpose of the PSP.

        But anyway, as Existenz eluded to, the whole remote play PS1 gameplay is somewhat worthless in my opinion. You would have to leave that one disc in the PS3 to play that one game from where ever you were. On top of that, the lag is not very kind. I also don't still own all of my games, but would gladly buy some back if they would just put them up for download. I could also carry as many as I could fit on my memory stick and play it directly on my PSP if they did so.
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          StarJet Feb 6, 08
          Well, homebrew is pretty much keeps my PSP alive though. I don't have more than 10 games, so I play all my PSone classics on it.
  • 0
    jmac353 Feb 5, 08
    I already own all 3 games, too bad there's no real incentive to get this if you already own them. No cool packaging or anything.
  • 0
    StabWound Feb 5, 08
    I heard about this a few weeks ago, good deal considering a used copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence is $25 alone.
  • 2
    jmac353 Feb 5, 08
    I wish they would just port MGS1, MGS2, and MGS3 into PS3 engine and run it natively at 1080p/720p. Leave the textures and everything the way they are, maybe up character polygon count a bit or something.

    At least then there would be no jaggies and such at native 1080p and they could force max AA and max AF.
  • 0
    Gogetenks Feb 5, 08
    Amazing deal, although I do have all of them already (well, I lost the original MGS, but I have Twin Snakes). I still haven't been able to play MGS3 because my PS2 stopped working >_>...

    I have really been tempted to play the games lately, but my PS2's lens is messed up so I can't. Twin Snakes is great and all, but I have already played the game many times and unlocked everything quite a few times.
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    Final Blade Feb 6, 08
    Cool, but i would like more classics.
  • 0
    Bri Feb 6, 08
    Very, very nice and I will definitely be picking this up. I have 3 and regrettably sold 2 and 1 so this is sort of a comeback for me. Does anyone know if there will be any noticeable changes to MGS 1, which happens to my my favorite of the series thus far?
  • 0
    Seproth Feb 6, 08
    Good I've been missing mgs 1 and I've long since lost my original.
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    Revenger of Wastelan Feb 6, 08
    Oh great! It's my chance to finally play MGS!
    • 0
      StarJet Feb 6, 08
      You haven't played MGS 1 before?
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    Hawkeye Feb 6, 08
    They should release this on the Wii.
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      Seproth Feb 11, 08
      Get the twin snakes for gamecube. It would work on the wii as long as you have a gamecube controller to plug into it.
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    Alvaroduck Feb 6, 08
    Sounds pretty cool, although I own all of them already.

    But, like iLLmatic, I wish it would come out on PSN. I don't want to risk screwing my PSP/going through loads of bother just to play it on my PSP.
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    Kinetic Feb 7, 08
    Cool. It will be nice to to have these games on one disk.

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