Metal Gear Solid

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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Developer

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan

Publisher

Konami

Genres

ShooterTacticalAdventure

Themes

ActionScience fictionSurvivalStealth

Modes

Single-player

Perspectives

Third person

Age ratings

ESRB M, PEGI 18, CERO C, USK 12, GRAC 19+, ClassInd 16, ACB MA 15+ESRB M · PEGI 18 · CERO C · USK 12 · GRAC 19+ · ClassInd 16 · ACB MA 15+