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| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy Used: $20.92
You Save: $9.07 (30%)
New (53) Used (22) from $20.92
Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 508
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 25078
Model: 25078
UPC: 083717250784
EAN: 0083717250784
ASIN: B001383L36
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 A must July 14, 2008
If you consider yourself a hardcore fan, i mean the one that spends his life in forums giving opinions about the colors and textures used in the game series, or how the machine should sound like, or you just a normal person who just liked it for what it is, and damn good story, then this is a must, the price is fair for the content it has and the fun it delivers.
 Perfect if you don't already have these... July 7, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
What can I say? This is a collection of three of the finest video games ever created. If you've never played them, this is a great and inexpensive way to start. I guarantee, by the time you're halfway done with Metal Gear Solid 2, you'll be hooked like nothing you've ever experienced!
My only qualm with this box set is the decision to leave out disc 2 of the Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence set. This second disc contains the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX system. You'd think that by "Essential Collection", that would include the two games that started it all!
However, the other games are presented in their original state and they are incredible. Well worth it!
 Once again, North American gamers are short changed! July 5, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
When I purchased the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection, I was expecting the whole deal! All the extras, the VR missions, PSP ACID games and then the Persistence disc for Metal Gear Solid 3. I am not like other gamers on this site in the sense that I will come down hard on Konami North America for once again showing its disrespect for us true die hard traditional gamers in the United States! It is galling that even after seeing how many people are willing to pay the extra dollars here in the U.S.A. for all the new technologies and bell whistles that come with them that these U.S. companies STILL labor under the impression that anything new here should come half completed, whereas in Japan they get the whole kit and kaboodle.
To anybody that buys this product, please read the box and item summary before you purchase it. If you are a Metal Gear fanatic like myself, you will be totally disappointed in the utter lack of extras. An essential collection this is not!
Just what you need!! July 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
About the product:
I played MGS, MGS2 a couple of years ago but never got the chance to play MGS3. And when I saw its reviews recently I decided I'll give it a go. But unfortunately all the copies I found offline of (MGS3: Subsistence) were somewhat expensive for a PS2 game! So finally I found this product and it was just what I needed. The improved MGS2 & MGS3 Plus I didnt have a copy of my own of MGS and now I have all three in my collection. Excellent and for an Excellent price.
About the Game:
The games are so much fun (if your into stealth-action). Especially MGS3. That game totally RULED!! Story is just amazing! And game play is also great.
I totally recommend this product.
Three Great Games for One Great Price June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection is just that... essential. Coming just in time for the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, the purpose of this is to let those who want to absorb the story of the saga do so to refresh their minds for the concluding events of Metal Gear Solid 4.
The Metal Gear Solid saga centers primarily on an operative named Solid Snake. The first game chronicles his mission through Shadow Moses Island where he has to stop his former unit Fox-Hound from launching a Nuclear Weapon: Metal Gear. As he undergoes the mission, he discovers many revelations about himself and what the meaning of his very life could be.
Metal Gear Solid 2 picks up the story two years later in which Snake and friend Otacon form a non-profit organization known as Philanthropy. They're mission is to get photographic evidence that the military is developing a new type of Metal Gear. Unfortunately the Tanker Mission doesn't go as planned. Two years later, a Plant is built where the Tanker went down and players were treated to one of Metal Gear Solid 2's most controversial plot twists, they discovered they would not be playing the rest of the game as Solid Snake and they'd be playing as an operative named Raiden. Like Snake, Raiden's mission unravels many revelations about him. The second installment, in particular, showers some of the best plot twists in the series.
Metal Gear Solid 3, on the other hand, takes the series back to the very beginning where you control an operative named Naked Snake, who will eventually go on to be known through the series as Big Boss. During his mission he is sent to save an Operative named Sokolov before Colonial Volgin can get to him. Much like Metal Gear Solid 2, the game is divided into two parts, and the first part is a failure only for the second part to be one of redemption.
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is famous for its storyline of Solid Snake and other characters. The essential collection gives anyone a chance to relive the story with each episode back to back to back. Every story is told through amazing cutscenes with great voice acting. While some of the story sequences can get a little long (especially in Metal Gear Solid 2) they're filled with great direction and a lot of story to absorb. And you'll want to absorb as much as you can, because Metal Gear Solid 4 will reference all three games.
The gameplay has also been very memorable, evolving throughout the series. Along those lines, each game never makes you go about each situation the same way. There are numerous ways to approach each situation, and with several difficulty levels (coupled with a few other extras in the second and third games) each game demands replay. Even better is that for Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 we got the Substance and Subsistence variants respectively.
If there was anything wrong with this collection, it would be that Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence doesn't include the second disc. While it's true, Metal Gear Online is taken down for Subsistence, the second disc did include the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. These are two games that can really help add to the Metal Gear saga. It's a small price, but for those who didn't own the original Subsistence and wanted to play the original two games, just know you won't get them with this collection. However, this probably won't be seen as a big loss anyway. The story of Metal Gear Solid can be well understood without the two original games.
If you don't own the Metal Gear Solid games and you'd like to know the story, this is a good investment. The fact that you'll get Substance and Subsistence rather than just the original Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater make this a very good deal indeed.
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