Metal Gear Solid

3 Sep 1998

PC (Microsoft Windows) PlayStation PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X|S
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5995 played
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435 reviews
Developer
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Publisher
Konami

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Main story

12h
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Main story + extras

14h
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100% completion

14h
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Summary

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.

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Difficulty: easy Time to beat: 9h There's not much to say. The story is a big jump of improvement from MG1 and MG2 as it tackles in more to the human philosophy and builds on snake's charchter and adds ever so interesting characters I realized a reason why kojima games are so loved is because of...
19 Jul - 25 Jul 2025
25 Jul 2025
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9 2
“kept you waiting huh?”
30 Jan 2024
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Main story + extras
6 0
In the game of this year (1998) it's just really amazing and Ahead of it's time
the story and plot twist's , game play and also design of character's is really impressive
Overall it's the best and in this genre mgs Series is my favorite 👍🔥
23h 51m
22 Sep 2025
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5 0
My fingure hurt
From the button massing
16 Jan 2024
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Abandoned
8 0
If I reviewed this in 1998 it would go like this.

Campaign Mode - 10
Gameplay - 10
Story / Acting - 10
Artificial Intelligence - 9.5

Graphics - 9.5
Level Design - 10
Animations - 9
Sound FX/Music - 10

Lifespan - 7
Replay Value - 9
20 Aug 2020
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Abandoned
6 0
SOLID SNAKE SO SEXY
4 Jan 2023
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Main story
5 0
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