Official Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance thread

[Tommy Tallarico]

Solid Snake is once again sneaking onto store shelves this week, with the release of the Playstation 2 version of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. The best part? When you purchase it, you find out that buying it was actually a dream within a VR simulation based on when you bought the first Metal Gear Solid.

Created by Hideo Kojima, the father of Metal Gear, Substance includes hundreds of new VR missions, new playable characters, and Snake’s Tales, a series of new, and quite difficult, missions involving everyone’s favorite sneak.

With the PS2 release of Substance, Konami is hoping to match the success of the original Metal Gear Solid 2, which sold over 2 million copies in the US alone, and over 5 million worldwide. This comes on the heels of the announcement that there’s a Metal Gear game in development for the Gamecube. Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance was released for the Xbox last November to high praise, and there is a PC version set to be released on March 18. Substance is available now at an MSRP of $39.99.

Read TNL's review of the Xbox version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance right here.

[Master]

Hey, mark your spoilers!

[bahn]

what are you talking about? my review doesn't contain spoilers.

[Master]

Originally posted by Masters
The best part? When you purchase it, you find out that buying it was actually a dream within a VR simulation based on when you bought the first Metal Gear Solid.

Oops. I was just goofing on this.

[Tommy Tallarico]

Ah, that doesn't spoil anything. The ending was so convoluted anyway that I could post the actual ending, word for word, and no one would feel that the game was spoiled. They'd just be as confused as I was.

[AaronChance]

The ending to MGS2 is just like the ending to Empire Strikes Back, only instead of Darth Vader you have Dr. Octupus and instead of Luke you have Meg Ryan.

[Josh]

Bah. I drop teh poop on all of you. I love the game.

[Jeremy]

The actual game part of MGS is good, it's a shame that it only makes up about 40% of the actual product.

[taloony]

Ok, I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I don't suppose your saves from MGS 2 will work with this, will they?

[SaturnHalo]

I absolutley LOVED the graphics and gameplay of SOL, but the lack of actual PLAY and the overuse of cinema was really a turn-off. The ending ruined the whole game for me, almost. I was really dissapointed. Enough to want my $50 back...