Metal Gear Solid is a video game by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and first published by Konami in 1998 for the PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Kojima's early MSX2 computer games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. The game featured cinematic cutscenes rendered using the in-game engine and graphics, as well as voice acting in numerous codec sequences.

Metal Gear Solid follows Solid Snake, a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from FOXHOUND, a renegade special forces unit. Snake must liberate two hostages, the head of DARPA and the president of a major arms manufacturer, confront the terrorists, and stop them from launching a nuclear strike.

Metal Gear Solid was very well-received, shipping more than six million copies,and scoring an average of 94 out of 100 on the aggregate website Metacritic. It is recognized by many critics as one of the best and most important games of all time, heralded as the game which made the stealth genre popular. The commercial success of the title prompted the release of an expanded version for the PlayStation and PC, titled Metal Gear Solid: Integral; and a remake, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes was later released for the Nintendo GameCube. The game has also spawned numerous sequels, prequels and spin-offs, including several games, a radio drama, comics, and novels.

Reviews

Metal Gear Solid

Written by KaiserBoss on April 16, 2016 @ 4:35 pm

DISCLAIMER: If you haven't played this game don't even dare to read this review. Seriously, go play it. The time was the late 90s, there was a console war going on, of course. People bragging about their Crash Bandicoots and some bragging about their Ocarina of Time. But a certain someone was about to...Continue reading...

Metal Gear Solid

Written by joystickler on January 20, 2015 @ 11:31 am

I still think Metal Gear Solid is the best game in the titular franchise. Hideo Kojima got progressively carried away with the self-conscious "kitsch" of his storylines which made the drama hard to bite into, but Metal Gear Solid finds that line between realism and melodramatic thriller that drew everyone...Continue reading...

Comments

snarfoogleJanuary 20, 2015 @ 9:26 pm

hideo kojima is a genious

NikoSAugust 12, 2015 @ 1:47 pm

The best game of ps1

SpikeJet2736August 16, 2015 @ 8:37 am

Final Fantasy VII and Castlevania Symphony of The Night always throw their empty beer bottles at their silver trophies thinking to themselves "What does MGS have that I don't have?!"

xdanNovember 13, 2016 @ 10:49 am

Possibly the best game ever made (thought not my favourite)

TheScepticGuyApril 28, 2019 @ 11:41 am

True classic right here