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Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection | 
| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  147 reviews
Sales Rank: 1064
Platform: PlayStation2
Genre: military_and_espionage_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 2
MPN: 25078
Model: 25078
UPC: 083717250784
EAN: 0083717250784
ASIN: B001383L36
Publication Date: March 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Great Value with 3 Games at one value price. | | • | Final chance to get fully immersed in the Metal Gear Solid Universe before the release of MGS 4. | | • | Includes Directors Cut of Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance. | | • | Includes Directors Cut of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence. | | • | Special re-designed packaging artwork from renowned artist Shinkawa. |
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Product Description
Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection PS2
From the Manufacturer
Since its inception, the Metal Gear franchise has been one of the most successful game series on any console receiving worldwide recognition and praise. The franchise that pioneered the stealth action genre is back with Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection includes three classic Metal Gear games:Metal Gear Solid- Lightly armed and facing an army of foes, Snake must avoid firefights in order to survive.
- If Snake is discovered, he can utilize advanced weaponry, ranging from silenced pistols to ground-to-air missiles.
- Enemies react to sight and sound.
- State-of-the-art graphics: Textures, transparencies, models and explosions.
- Suspenseful, gripping story with multiple endings for a truly cinematic experience.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance- 350+ VR missions and 150+ alternative missions.
- Play through 5 "Snake Tales" levels involving Solid Snake.
- Skateboarding mode lets you explore the Big Shell as Raiden or Snake.
- Utilize stealth and infiltration methods, such as diving somersaults, hanging from ledges and using disguises.
- Fully interactive environments- bullets pierce steam pipes, smoke reveals laser beams and wet shoes leave footprints.
- Powerful musical score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence- Relive history as the cold war and geo-political landscape change.
- Outsmart enemies with camouflage, close-quarters combat, stalking, interrogating, climbing, hunting and treating injuries.
- Pit yourself against an environment where traps catch enemies and prey, threats lurk in the shadows, and noise alert predators.
- Epic musical score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock) and immersive Dolby Prologic II surround sound.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 147
 Essentially Awesome May 16, 2008
Steve Garrigus
45 out of 49 found this review helpful
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!
Deal of the Century! March 24, 2008
JR (noreast PA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of the MGS series since I bought a Playstation 2 seven years ago. I applaud Konami for releasing this box set. This presents newbies the chance to catch up with the story just in time for the PS3 release of Metal Gear Solid 4. For $30 this is a steal. All 3 games are well worth the price of admission. You simply can't go wrong with this deal.
Excellent Collection June 12, 2008
Ravenskya
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I ordered this for my hubby for Fathers Day, he has never played any of the Metal Gear games before. I had previously owned the first and second in the series, but they had long since been "borrowed" and not returned. Since we ordered the PS3 Metal Gear Solid Pack I decided this would be a good buy.
First of all, the games come in a small cardboard case to hold the 3 ps2 game cases. Even though MS1 is a PS1 game, it is in a PS2 style case so that they can all stay together in the box. This means that the artwork is different than on the originals of each of these games. I personally don't care but just in case you do - now you've been told.
Each game comes with it's own manual as well as the ingame help we are all used to for the first couple of scenes. This is an excellent collection for the price, and I would highly advise the purchase if you like this type of game.
The only negatives I have are
1) the game controls take a while to get used to
2) The PS1 game of MGS1 will NOT play in either of our PS2's. Our PS3 should arrive soon so hopefully it will play in that since that was my favorite of the games anyway. I am told that this is a fairly common problem, however my PS2's will play all of our other PS1 games without incident. I am told that this can be fixed by placing "Tape" on the top of the CD however I have yet to attempt this experiment.
**UPDATE**
We just received our PS3 and it WILL play Metal Gear Solid 1 quite happily. Apparently it just didn't want to play in the PS2s that we have.
Just what you need!! July 1, 2008
Mohd Alabbasi (Saudi Arabia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
About the product:
I played MGS, MGS2 a couple of years ago but never got the chance to play MGS3. And when I saw its reviews recently I decided I'll give it a go. But unfortunately all the copies I found offline of (MGS3: Subsistence) were somewhat expensive for a PS2 game! So finally I found this product and it was just what I needed. The improved MGS2 & MGS3 Plus I didnt have a copy of my own of MGS and now I have all three in my collection. Excellent and for an Excellent price.
About the Game:
The games are so much fun (if your into stealth-action). Especially MGS3. That game totally RULED!! Story is just amazing! And game play is also great.
I totally recommend this product.
This is the Essential Collection March 26, 2008
Jared Bryant (Huber Heights, Ohio United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I mainly wanted to write this review in response to "W. Herrmann's" review.
His problem with the shrink wrap was just his set. He is right in that only the outter box is wrapped, but there were no defects in the wrapping on mine, The entire thing is shrink wrapped just fine with mine.
This collection is AMAZING if you don't own any of the other games. If you have every other MGS game you can skip over this unless you're a hardcore collctor like I am. This is a great introduction to the series. I have no complaints about anything being missing as this isn't The Complete Collection.
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