Metal Gear Solid 1-3 rereleases coming in a new collection, hopefully on PC?
Along with confirming a shiny remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 at last night's PlayStation Showcase, Konami announced a collection of ye olde Metal Gears Solid 1-3. These sound like straightforward rereleases of the classic stealth games and I'm cool with that because I am deeply wary of Konami touching Metal Gear at all. I just want Snake Eater on PC at long last. Konami are vague about platforms, but I'm expecting/hoping we'll see this collection on PC? And more vintage Gears Solid might follow.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 is due to arrive this autumn, toting Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Konami's website say it "allows fans to play the games as they were, as first released on the latest platforms."
They don't specify which platforms (plural) those are, but I certainly hope PC is included. And I do expect it. Konami did start selling Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2 again on PC in 2020, though they soon needed to pull MGS2 from sale due to licensing issues with historical footage in cutscenes. And the Snake Eater remake is coming to PC, so the original would make sense. And Konami have released their recent collections of old Castlevania, Contra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and arcade games on PC, and their upcoming Suikoden 1 & 2 remasters are coming our way too. My only doubt comes from Metal Gear Solid 3.
Unlike the first two, MGS3: Snake Eater was never released on PC. That might presumably make it more of an effort to bring our way. But I really hope they do, because the historical Big Boss era of Metal Gear Solid is so much more interesting to me than the contemporary Solid Snake games. (Though I do have to admire the self-indulgent audacity of
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