Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

"Metal Gear 2" redirects here. For the 2001 video game, see Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. For the NES game released in 1990, see Snake's Revenge.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Packaging illustration by Yoshiyuki Takani
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Director(s)Hideo Kojima
Designer(s)Hideo Kojima
Programmer(s)
  • Isao Akada
  • Toshinari Oka
Artist(s)
  • Shuko Iwamoto
  • Tae Yabu
  • Tomohiro Nishio
Writer(s)Hideo Kojima
Composer(s)
SeriesMetal Gear
Platform(s)
ReleaseMSX2
Mobile phone
  • JP: October 1, 2004
Genre(s)Action-adventure, stealth
Mode(s)Single-player

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake[b] is a 1990 action-adventure stealth video game[c] developed and published by Konami for the MSX2 computer platform. It serves as a sequel to the MSX2 version of the original Metal Gear, written and designed by series's creator Hideo Kojima, who conceived the game in response to Snake's Revenge, a separately-produced sequel that was being developed at the time for the NES specifically for the North American and European markets. The MSX2 version of Solid Snake was only released in Japan, although Kojima would later direct another sequel titled Metal Gear Solid, which was released worldwide for the PlayStation in 1998 to critical acclaim. This later led to Solid Snake being re-released alongside the original Metal Gear as additional content in the Subsistence version of Metal Gear Solid 3 for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. It was also included in the HD remastered ports of Metal Gear Solid 3 released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox 360, and was given a standalone re-release in Japan as a downloadable game for mobile phones and the Wii Virtual Console.

Set in 1999, a few years after the events of the original game,[d] Solid Snake must infiltrate a heavily defended territory known as Zanzibar Land to rescue a kidnapped scientist and destroy the revised "Metal Gear D". The game significantly evolved the stealth-based game system of its predecessor, and uses a storyline dealing with themes such as the nature of warfare and nuclear proliferation. It is considered one of the best 8 bit games ever made.[7]

  1. ^ "Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake". MSX Magazine. No. 1990–08. ASCII. pp. 25–26 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Konami. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2). Level/area: Front packaging.
  3. ^ Konami. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2/PS2). Dr. Madnar: "そう・・・METAL GEARじゃよ。SNAKE。あるのじゃ、あれが・・・ここに。 あたらしいMETAL GEARはすでにカンセイしておる。3年前、あんたがハカイしたのはたんなるシサクヒン・・・ [Yes... Metal Gear. Snake, it is here... In Zanzibar Land. They've already completed a new Metal Gear. The one you destroyed three years ago was only a prototype...]
  4. ^ Konami. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2/PS2). Kasler: "3年前のOUTER HEAVENカンラクでかれはヒン死のジュウショウをおった [Three years ago, when Outer Heaven fell, Big Boss was seriously wounded.]
  5. ^ Konami. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2/PS2). Snake: "オレは3年間とりついているアクムをはらいにきた。 [I came to get rid of the nightmares I've been having for the past three years.]"
  6. ^ Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake User's Manual (in Japanese). Konami. pp. 29, 35.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference GameSpy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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