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Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation Vita – Told ya so!

Just before E3, Konami released an E3 apology video because they weren’t going to attend the Electronic Expo. In this video Hideo Kojima taught us all about “Transfarring” and how the PS3 Version of Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker would share save data with the PSP version. He also showed us the Transfarring logo that you can see in the picture to the right.  He stated in the video as well that he thought the Transfarring would start with the PSP version, then he could work on getting PS2 games working with it, and then eventually PS3 games. These are lofty promises but Kojima and his team have made some pretty spectacular technical feats before in the past.

Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker

Story

This entry into the Metal Gear series takes place 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3, in 1974. This game’s protagonist (Naked Snake instead of Solid snake from MGS1, 2 and 4) has started his own private military called “Militaires Sans Frontiers” or “Soldiers without Borders”. They’re asked by two people speaking on behalf of the Costa Rican government (one of the only governments in the world without a military) to save their country from a force that has seemed to move in. Snake accepts the request on hearing that his mentor from MGS3 is alive in a recording.

Metal Gear Solid

Price: $9.99

Release Date on PSN:June 18th 2009

Original Release date: October 21st 1998

Story

Metal Gear is applauded for its story, it’s complex, grown up, well written, but the voice acting is top notch, and that’s a real rarity on the PSone. It centers around a covert operative named Snake, who is brought out of retirement to remedy a situation happening on an Island off of the coast of Alaska. There are many twists and turns in the story, betrayals, characters that are really developed well; this is not the same old story telling that was the norm in games at the time.