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Game data
Metacritic 94- Released
- 1998-09-03
- User rating
- 4.39 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation, Game Boy Color
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game created by Hideo Kojima which follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Despite a transition to 3D, Metal Gear Solid's gameplay remains similar to his predecessors. The game utilizes a traditional top-down view and the player must navigate the protagonist Solid Snake through the game's areas without being detected. Detection will set off an alarm which draws armed enemies to his location. Conversations with Snake's allies and cutscenes are used extensively to advance the plot and gain more insight into it. Metal Gear Solid is r…
- Released
- 1998
- Genres
- Shooter, Tactical, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid
- Developer
- Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
Key facts
- Developer
- Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
- Director
- Hideo Kojima
- Producers
- Hideo Kojima Motoyuki Yoshioka
- Designer
- Hideo Kojima
- Programmer
- Kazunobu Uehara
- Artist
- Yoji Shinkawa
- Writers
- Hideo Kojima Tomokazu Fukushima
- Composers
- Kazuki Muraoka Hiroyuki Togo Takanari Ishiyama Lee Jeon Myung Gigi Meroni
- Series
- Metal Gear
- Platforms
- PlayStation Windows
- Release
- September 3, 1998 PlayStation JP : September 3, 1998 NA : October 20, 1998 EU : February 22, 1999 Integral PlayStation JP : June 24, 1999 NA : October 12, 1999 EU : October 29, 1999 Windows NA : September 22, 2000 EU : October 20, 2000
- Genres
- Action-adventure , stealth
- Mode
- Single-player
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Official website
METAL GEAR SOLID
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.konami.com/mg/archive/mgs
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- title
- メタルギアソリッド
- publication date
- 1998-09-03
- Commons category
- Metal Gear Solid
- review score
- 86/100
- PlayStation DataCenter URL
- psxdatacenter.com/games/P/M/SLES-01734.html
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Metal Gear Solid is a 1998 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. Directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, the game is the third mainline installment in the Metal Gear series, the seventh chronologically, and serves as a sequel to the MSX2 game Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990). The game's story follows Solid Snake, a former Special Forces operative who is pulled out of retirement by the U.S. Government to infiltrate Shadow Moses, a nuclear weapons facility that has been taken over by rouge unit FOXHOUND, led by Liquid Snake. Solid Snake must liberate hostages and prevent FOXHOUND from using Metal Gear REX, a mecha capable of delivering a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world, while confronting his own origins.
Conceived by Kojima during the development of Policenauts (1994), Metal Gear Solid was initially developed for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in 1995 but was soon moved to the PlayStation. With a small team of 20 people, Kojima emphasized extreme detail, utilizing real-life demonstrations of weapons, individually-designed set pieces, and mocking environments using Lego building blocks. Artist Yoji Shinkawa designed the majority of characters, including Solid Snake, who was physically based on Jean-Claude Van Damme and Christopher Walken. Cinematic cutscenes were rendered using the in-engine graphics, and voice acting was used throughout. Metal Gear Solid was unveiled at the 1996 Tokyo Game Show and demonstrated at trade shows including the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo, to largely positive reception.