1987, the young developer Hideo Kojima launched Metal Geara stealth game for MSX2 featuring Solid Snakean agent of fox hound sent to South Africa to avoid a nuclear attack. The beginning of a great saga especially popularized by Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation in 1998, and which continues… with difficulty today.
Hideo Kojima was fired right after the development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in 2015, but the publisher Konami still tried to make the license survive with Metal Gear Survive in 2018, without success. Overall, the franchise is still a huge critical success, and there are a lot of fans. Konami just to unveil on his professional website License Metal Gear has 60 million games sold since its debut in July 198736 years ago.
A figure that should increase by a few million soon with Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eaterremake of the PS2 opus with Naked Snake in a fictional country of the USSR. A compilation with the three SMG originals is also provided, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1which you can pre-order at €59.99 on Amazon.
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