Discover
Editions
More
Extra
Explore our other sites
Metal Gear Solid
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
September 2, 1998
Genres
Tactical, AdventureDevelopers
Konami Computer Entertainment JapanRelease Date
September 2, 1998 (26 years and 8 months ago)Publishers
KonamiContent Rating
M Animated Blood and Gore, Animated Violence, Mature Sexual Themes, Sexual Themes, Suggestive Themes, Blood and Gore, Violence
Franchises
Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid Screenshots and Videos
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Metal Gear Solid
Start Slideshow
Discover Games
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.
Genres
Tactical, AdventurePlatforms
PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, PlayStation PortableDevelopers
Konami Computer Entertainment JapanRelease Date
September 2, 1998 (26 years and 8 months ago)Publishers
KonamiContent Rating
M Animated Blood and Gore, Animated Violence, Mature Sexual Themes, Sexual Themes, Suggestive Themes, Blood and Gore, Violence
Franchises
Metal Gear, Metal Gear SolidMore from Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com
Metal Gear Solid News
When PlayStation Now first launched, in 2015, it was more confusing than enticing. On paper, it was meant to be a…
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make.…
Konami announced this morning that the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear Solid 2 are all headed…
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites assemble to deliberate on a single…
A “walk cycle” is the part of video game animation that covers the most basic, default movement of your character.…
Fall Guys is the most downloaded PlayStation 4 game ever. We’ve already started seeing some collab costumes, such as…
Now playing
Video game characters are much more than the sum of their pixels. Behind the dialogue, grunts and cheers is a…
When Metal Gear Solid V was released, tucked away in the code was a cutscene designed to only play once every nuke…
Tomorrow, Fallout 76 and the one-of-a-kind action-RPG CrossCode are coming to Xbox Game Pass. But as life giveth,…
Advertisement