Metal Gear Solid/The Twin Snakes Talkback (Spoilers)

[Batman's Biggest Fan]

Both the original Playstation classic Metal Gear Solid and the updated Gamecube port can be discussed here.


Tactical Espionage Action

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"You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life... and then live." - Naomi Hunter






Release Date: October 21, 1998 (Playstation), March 9, 2004 (Gamecube)

Game Company: Konami (Playstation), Konami/Silicon Knights (Gamecube)

Directed by: Hideo Kojima (Playstation), Ryuhei Kitamura (Gamecube)

Starring: David Hayter, Cam Clarke, Debi Mae West, Christopher Randolph, Paul Eiding, Kim Mai Guest, Jennifer Hale, Greg Eagles, Rob Paulsen (The Twin Snakes only), Patric Zimmerman, Doug Stone, Talisa Valenza, and Alan Lurie


Plot summary:

In the year 2005. 6 years have passed since Zanzibar Land. FOX-HOUND's new leader Liquid Snake reforms the group into a terroist group and takes hostage a Nuclear Disposal Facility on Shadow Moses Island in Alaska. Their demands turn over 1 billion dollars and the remains of Big Boss or they'll launch a nuke. Roy Campbell is forced out of retirement to force Solid Snake out of retirement as well. First, Snake is sent to rescue two hostages: DARPA chief Donald Anderson and Armstech President Kenneth Baker. Second, is to investigate whether or not the terroists have the ability to launch a nuclear weapon and stop them if they do. But there is more going on then even Snake can imagine this time....


Comments?

[Juu-kuchi]

I'll let my review do the talking. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/juukuchi/49973.html)

[Peter Paltridge]

Are you sure it was 2005? I thought it was 1998, the year the game was released.

[Lord Dalek]

Are you sure it was 2005? I thought it was 1998, the year the game was released.That wouldn't make sense, because Snake's infiltration of Zanzibar was in 1999.

Awesome games, both the original, Integral for the PC, and Twin Snakes. I still get a laugh out of Decoy Octopus though (who comes up with these silly names anyway?)

[maximumzero]

Metal Gear Solid + Bleemcast + Dreamcast = Fun.

[Shnay]

Metal Gear Solid is probably one of my all time favorite games. The stealth gameplay, much more so than the first two games, was an exciting and unique experience. The game features one of the better storylines found in videogames, and easily some of the best characters ever featured in a game. Snake is an excellent character, and the supporting cast is just as impressive. Nearly everyone featured in the game is fleshed out enough to make them a believeable, human character. Some of the supporting cast, like Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven, and a few others, have a few really great scenes, with very memorable dialogue.

5/5

I didn't like The Twin Snakes as much, for a few rather minor reasons. The first person perspective is a mixed blessing. It makes the parts of the game where you have to shoot people much more interesting, but it also makes the gun far too easy (and tempting) to use in all the other situations where you don't. I don't care for the Matrix-flair of the new cutscenes. Most are interesting to watch, but they makes the characters seem too much like super-human soldiers, as opposed to the super-skilled soldiers they were originally. The game also changed some of the characters accents and tweaked some of the dialogue. These are minor changes, but they still seem annoying and unnessary.

[ClockStomper]

TTS is not official cannon, but a fun way to play MGS1 battles with MGS2 mechanics. I do appriciate how Snake's battle with RO in this game parrellels Big Bosses with young Ocelot.