
2011 · Bundle / compilation · Genki · Action-adventure · Adventure
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
Bundle / compilation
From the critically acclaimed director, Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection offers a handful of the most popular Metal Gear Solid titles from the past in true HD for the first time ever. Featuring three complete games, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the HD Collection offers old and new fans a chance to experience the epic game play, design and storytelling of the MGS franchise. The "Metal Gear Solid (MGS)" series is the seminal work of Hideo Kojima, Japan's master game creator, and the progenitor of the stealth action game genre. The series has become a global phenomenon, with over 27 million copies sold worldwide.
- Released
- 8 November 2011
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3PlayStation VitaXbox 360
- Genres
- Action-adventureAdventureShooterTactical
- Developers
- GenkiAspect
- Publishers
- Konami
- Series
- Metal Gear
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First personThird person
- Themes
- ActionStealth
- Country
- JapanUnited States
- Age ratings
- PEGI 18ACB MA 15+ESRB MCLASS_IND 14
- Directors
- Hideo Kojima
About
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a compilation of remastered ports of Metal Gear video games released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011 and PlayStation Vita in 2012. The compilation contains Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on all three platforms, plus Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the home console versions (outside Japan), with the individual games all branded as HD Edition. Bluepoint Games handled the conversions of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 (with Armature Studio assisting on the PS Vita and the Nvidia Shield TV versions), while Genki worked on Peace Walker.
›Story
Metal Gear Solid 2:
Two years after the events of the Shadow Moses Incident, Solid Snake and Otacon, working as Philanthropy, receive intelligence of a new type of Metal Gear being transported through the Hudson River. As Snake boards the tanker, it's seized by a group of Russian mercenaries led by Revolver Ocelot, intent on stealing the new Metal Gear.
Another two years later and the Big Shell, the offshore clean up facility constructed in its place is taken over by a terrorist faction calling themselves the Sons of Liberty. New FOXHOUND operative Raiden is sent in to neutralize the threat. However, all is not as it seems.
Metal Gear Solid 3:
In 1964, CIA agent Naked Snake is sent to Tselinoyarsk, USSR. Aided by Major Zero, Para-Medic, and his former mentor The Boss, Snake is tasked with rescuing defecting Soviet scientist Sokolov, who is secretly developing a nuclear-equipped tank, the Shagohod. Snake locates and escorts Sokolov, but encounters The Boss, who announces she is defecting to the USSR, and provides her new benefactor, Colonel Volgin, with two Davy Crockett nuclear shells. Sokolov is captured by the Cobra Unit, and Snake is thrown off a bridge by The Boss.
Volgin steals the Shagohod and detonates one of the nuclear shells to cover up the theft, which is subsequently blamed on The Boss. The injured Snake is recovered via fulton extraction.
Metal Gear Solid - Peace Walker:
Peace Walker begins on November 4, 1974. Big Boss is running his own mercenary unit in Colombia after leaving the United States following the formation of FOXHOUND at the end of Portable Ops. A mysterious paramilitary group equipped with a startling quantity of quality weapons, called the "Peace Sentinels", has been deployed in Costa Rica. Despite the Sentinels being equipped with firepower equivalent to that of a land army, the Costa Rican government cannot do anything about them because the country's constitution does not allow the creation of an official military. The Sentinels' presence threatens to endanger the balance of power between the East and West.
Keywords
- military
- compilation
- action-adventure
- espionage
- hiding
- satire
- camera
- 60 fps on consoles
- playstation plus
- real-time combat
- unreliable narrator
- political thriller
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Reception
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection received critical acclaim upon release. Review aggregator Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 version 90/100, the PlayStation 3 version 89/100 and the PlayStation Vita version 81/100.
In December 2011, the game received the award for "Best HD Remake of 2011" from TeamXbox, with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary as the runner-up. In a feature article regarding games collections, 1UP listed Metal Gear Solid HD Collection as "The Closest We've Come to Perfection" owing to the improved quality its games were given.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Includes
- METAL GEARMetal Gear 2: Solid SnakeMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - HD EditionMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD EditionMetal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - HD Edition
- Editions
- Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection Limited Edition
In the same series
73Metal Gear
1987 · Commodore 64, GameCube +7
Konami
PlayStation exclusive74Metal Gear Acid
2004 · PlayStation Portable
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PlayStation exclusive89Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
2001 · PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 +2
Konami
PlayStation exclusive82Metal Gear Acid 2
2005 · PlayStation Portable
80Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
1990 · MSX, Mobile +4
Konami
Nintendo exclusive61Snake's Revenge
1990 · NES
Konami
PlayStation exclusive85Metal Gear Solid
1998 · PlayStation, PlayStation 3 +2
Konami
Nintendo exclusive78Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
2000 · Game Boy Color
Tose Co.
Nintendo exclusive83Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
2004 · Remake · GameCube
Silicon Knights
PlayStation exclusive79Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus
2006 · PlayStation Portable
PlayStation exclusive63Metal Gear Online
2008 · Standalone · Arcade, PlayStation 3
PlayStation exclusive85Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2008 · PlayStation 3

Metal Gear Solid Mobile
2008 · Legacy Mobile Device, N-Gage
Ideaworks Game Studio
87Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
2010 · PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable +1
82Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
2013 · Android, PlayStation 3 +3
PlayStation exclusive93Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
2013 · Bundle · PlayStation 3
77Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
2014 · Standalone · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 +3
90Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
2015 · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 +3
45Metal Gear Survive
2018 · PlayStation 4, Windows +1
Konami
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Collections5 collections
Platform libraries
- Xbox 360 games (M–Z)
- Backward-compatible games for Xbox One and Series X/SList of compatible titles from Xbox 360
- High-definition remasters for PlayStation consolesGames › PlayStation 3
- High-definition remasters for PlayStation consolesGames › PlayStation Vita
Publishers
- Konami gamesPlayStation handhelds
Years
- Games released in 2012List › April–June
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