Metal Gear Solid
9.1
IGDB User Score
8.0
IGDB Critic Score

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 regarded as one of the greatest and most important video games of all time, and helped popularize the stealth genre and in-engine cinematic cutscenes.

IGDB Combined Score

Great
8.5
Metadata

Releases

PS1

PlayStation

September 03, 1998

Companies

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan

Konami

Alternative Titles

Acronym: MGS

Acronym: MGS1

CN (Traditional): 特攻神諜

Working title: Metal Gear 3

Age Ratings

ESRB - MPEGI - 18

Gameplay & Screenshots

Time to beat

22 HRS
Hastily
12 HRS
Normally

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