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No slim-line PS2 for the UKFor those of you who may have missed out on the Metal Gear saga, you’ll be pleasantly happy to know that Konami plans on releasing the Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection box set for the PlayStation 2 console. This is without a doubt a way to help boost even further interest into the future release of Metal Gear Solid 4 later this year.
Konami has announced that in this set you’ll be getting the original PlayStation Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Directors Cut), and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Directors Cut). These will be packaged together for the low price of $29.99. The artwork for the box will be done by MGS series artist, Yoji Shinkawa.
There has yet to be an official release date for this bundle set, however, big time retailer GameStop has it set for a mid-March release. This will give all of you newcomers to the gaming world a chance to see and experience what has made this franchise what it is today.
UPDATE: It is now being reported from PALGN that Australia will more than likely not be receiving this collection of Metal Gear Solid games. According to Atari, who distributes Konami games in Australia, "At this stage there are no plans to release the collection here".
It's looking like a bad day down under.
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psn id: gingo... this is quite a plan if there is any chance of getting this in europe i will defo buy
i have mgs2 and 3 (regular) but for $30 why the heck not?! even if i ebay off 2 and 3 for 10 bucks total that means im looking at all 3 games for only 20 bucks!
Was thinking of getting it until I saw PS2, my Japanese PS3 can't play it
thank you! as a big MGS fan i unofortunately never got to play the original(wasn't interested in mgs at that age) and i think it is going to be the twin snakes version. because this was posted on N4G.com and they showed a screenshot from that game.
man, i just bought the original MGS for $12 at Buy Backs...oh well, i need subsistence still (doesn't it come packaged with the original MSX Metal Gear 1 and 2?).
30,-? very nice, I've allready got all games but Iff they make mgs1 look a bit better I'd might purchase it
sweet package, and a sweeter deal. I honestly only need the original MGS, so I hope they put that on the PSN around the same time.
Now that is an awesome steal right there everyone. Hyping it up the ying yang.
i have all of them and im still getting ths AWESOME
sweet!. 30 bucks is a decent price for those 3 games. i am buying it when it comes out. i've been wanting to get my hands on subsistance metal gear 2., o heck yeah. i'll go and pre-order so i can get them all. i might keep it as a collection item though.
i have them all but im gonna buy it anyway lol
$30!!!!?!?!!??!?
Are they nuts?!?!!?
OM Freaking GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
i already have all of those games, MGS is the best series in the history of gaming, cant wait for march baby i will replay everything before i get into MGS4 buahahahaha good plan.
nice, gonna get it cause i lost the first one and the third one
worth the $ even though i have them all.i want to play subsistence again. mine got 2 horrible scratches and it would not boot. thanks Kojima
this is great. i wasn't really into these kind of games when they came out so i don't have any of them. Im interested in them now. I'll buy it for sure
I have been waiting for something like this for a very long time. Two will be needed for me: one to play and one to save as a collector's item. :D
Man! and i was about to re-buy the original Metal Gear for the ps1 on ebay because mine was badly scratched!! "was a little kid didnt know how precious it was" but now with this news! 30$!! now i dont have to buy it for like 60$ just for part one! ! MAN! thankfully i found out! .........!Thanks konami!....
psn I.D - sldsnake
awesome stuff. only own mgs2 (but completed mgs3) so if this makes its way to UK i'll definately pick it up for mgs1 plus the directors cut versions.
So this is one of the three Kojima projects to release this summer. (Ryan Payton announcement, remember?)
This is great though, since I wasn't into the MGS series until now. I'm glad Sony started bundling all these different series in 3-packs for $30. (DMC, MoH, RE)
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Hopefully they take the time and make the original look better.
WOAH. I heard of this sucker back when it hit Japan... but damn. $30 for MGS 1, 2 and 3? That's cheaper than I can get MGS1 on ebay! Deff will be picking it up!
as long as the essential collection comes to my gamestop that will be aweome. i'm surprised they didn't add mgs3 snake eater to it. no not subsistance. the original gamebut, that's cool i can't wait to get my hands on metal gear solid 2 susbsistance
Sweet, hey to all those people that complained about buying a launch PS3, well now you have another good reason, full backwards compatibility. My 60GB system has yet to fail on a PS2 game played in it.
+1
allredy have them all anyway but why dont we get twin snakes?? idiots
Nice now just get MSG4 out please.
If they're gonna re-re-release MGS3:Substance, then they should put the online servers back up for MGS3:S MGO for a little bit to at least hold people over until MGS4 MGO goes live. (MGO = Metal Gear Online)