This collection should be a part of everyone's PS2 library. It is one of the pinacle series of the Playstation system.

User Rating: 8.5 | Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection PS2
By ThePunisher424 | Review Date:
The Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection, quite frankly, is one of the best collections for the PS2. Taking Metal Gear Solid, Metal Solid 2: Substance, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, this collection offers hours of play, along with replay value. The graphics are good, the storylines are excellent, and all the games offer exctiement again and again. Before you play Metal Gear Solid 4, these should be the games you play, to help you understand it better. These games find the perfect balance between action and stealth. Forget the James Bond games, and what they tried to play off as stealth, these games portary stealth action, especially MGS 3.

However, although these are great games, there are flaws that come with this collection. For starters, the original Metal Gear Solid is the original Playstation version. It was not updated to the PS2. So if you intend to play the original, you need to ahve an original Playsation Memroy card. It sucks, considering this game was updated for the Gamecube some time ago, so it makes you wonder why they didn't do it for this collection.

Secondly, the collection is not a total collection. Both MGS 2: Substance and MGS 3: Subsistence are missing the bonus discs that were packaged with the original games. All you get is what's on the original game discs. If you want the other bonus features, you'd have to buy the games seperately. However, it's a small flaw compared to what you get out of the core games themselves.

Issues aside, The Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection is perfect for anyone who owns a PS2. It is one of the pinacle series to grace this system, and gamers owe it to themselves to give these games a shot. You won't be disappointed.

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