Hi-Def facelift for Metal Gear Solid
The good old PS2 sure had some superior games when it was first released back in 1999 and it still reigns today as the best selling console of all time. It’s ability to play CDs and DVDs and also its backward compatibility with the PS1 made it a huge hit, and its games are still in hard and heavy play in the modern gaming world.
Metal Gear Solid was first released for the original PlayStation in 1998, but became a quick hit on the PS2 because of the console’s subsequent release and its backwards compatibility. The game was the sequel to previous titles for the MSX2, Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
Since those days, there have been tons of releases, from sequels to prequels, and of course, remakes. The Nintendo Game Cube hosted Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes remake and Metal Gear Solid: Integral became an expanded version of the Solid for the PC and the PS1. With so much commercial success, there shouldn’t be any real surprises about talk of a pending high definition.
While nothing is confirmed, there is talk that Solid and its two PS2 sequels are being remade as a high-def trilogy for the PS3 in hopes of filling the void between the last Metal Gear release (2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots) and the pending release in 2012 of Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
Sony and Konami have a history of creating “a look back” collections and have already seen commercial success with re-releases of God of War, Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia for high definition. More scuttlebutt about the Konami/Sony facelift queue can be found here.
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