![]() Metal Gear did well enough to be ported to several platforms, and gain a quick Kojima-less sequel, but after this the series disappeared. This was the first time he stabbed at it. ![]() Play Near the end of the game Big Boss, Snake’s commander, gets agitated and radios through:ĪT ONCE.The Metal Gear Solid series is obsessed with talking at and to its players, and the fourth wall is something of an obsession for Kojima. Trucks move around the base, and sneaking onto the back of one can net you a free ride. At one point he gets deliberately captured and stages a MacGuyver-esque escape. Metal Gear paid great attention to seemingly trivial details: Snake begins with a packet of cigarettes, which can be smoked but will reduce his health, while he has a radio with which to call a support team for advice. The game’s main building has been lavished with attention to this end, most obviously in the way that guard patrols change depending on what the side of the screen from which you enter from. Guards in Metal Gear follow set patrol routes and only react to Snake if they see him. Though the game can’t quite maintain this focus for its entire duration (the second half is more traditional gunplay) this mixture of systems created the stealth genre. The game looked like a top-down 2D shooter, but the way you played had been a pet idea of Kojima for several years – a military game about avoiding confrontation. Hideo Kojima’s debut as a lead designer begins with special-ops soldier Solid Snake swimming to a dock entrance at a military base: over a decade later, so would Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear (1987)The series would come to prominence with Sony’s PlayStation but Metal Gear was first released on 7 Jfor the MSX2 computer, a popular platform in its native Japan. ![]()
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