First Impressions
The Metal Gear Solid series celebrated its 20-year anniversary this year. This excellent series has been mesmerizing gamers for 20 years and has a huge cult following. The original Metal Gear game invented the stealth genre and started a revolution that resulted in many games both from this series as well as other developers.
Following are some of the MGS facts:
When Hideo Kojima first briefed Konami about his Metal Gear ideas, they rejected them saying a game about sneaking will never work.
The series often has a very subtle theme that raises concerns over worldly issues like Nuclear war and Genetic Engineering (for war).
The series is known for its larger-than-life characters, especially Solid Snake, their emotional bonding, the really intense single-player plot that can seem intimidating to new players.
Solid Snake, the character, has been felicitated with numerous awards and is regularly listed in iconic gaming character features.
The boss battles in every MGS games are the true highlight of the game, the first Playstation game called Metal Gear Solid was known particularly for its boss fight with Psycho Mantis.
MGS 4 was a highly anticipated game before its 16th June release date, so much so that there was speculation that the game needed to sell more than million copies on the first day to recover costs. In reality, it sold more than 1.5 million after its release.
