Metal Gear Solid

The wait is almost over for MGS4. From mid June it will available to purchase standalone or in a bundle with a 40GB PS3 here in Australia and with a 80GB PS3 in America. Yes, I am still miffed at Sony for dropping PS2 backwards compatibility!

Last week, I purchased a mint condition copy of Metal Gear Solid 1 for PSX. The non-Platinum original version. It cost me $56, but it was well worth it. I played through it again and confirmed that it’s lost none of its magic.

I also finally finished collecting all the Dog Tags in MGS2, including those on Extreme difficulty. Although, I’m ashamed to admit I had to use my Action Replay to give myself infinite rations for some parts. It was just too hard! I purchased MGS2: Sons of Liberty when it was first released back in 2002, but about a year later Konami released MGS2: Substance which contained additional content such as 500 standalone missions. It also has a whole new set of Dog Tags to collect. I already have Substance for the original Xbox, though I will likely end up purchasing it for PS2 as well.

MGS3: Snake Eater was released in Australia in 2005, but I never played it because my PS2 was broken (or so I thought). But now I have decided that I must play it before MGS4, even though chronologically it takes place before the original Metal Gear, I still want to experience the evolution of the gameplay. MGS3 also had a re-release (this time called Subsistence) which included the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake games based on the MSX2 versions.

TAFE permitting, I should be able to finish MGS3 before MGS4 is released and if not, it’s no big deal really. I have plenty of time.

4 Responses to “Metal Gear Solid”


  1. 1 Ben May 27, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Not TAFE permitting man, Bwians assignment is yet to be done.

  2. 2 Rpg Cyco May 28, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    That assignment makes me want to hurt myself.

  3. 3 Ben June 4, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Just finished every single tafe assignment. Im going to hand my wasted tree in to tafe tomorow.

  4. 4 Rpg Cyco June 5, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Good on you man. I need to get the group portion of the wireless assignment and then I’m good.


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