
Most of the game is played from an overhead perspective (with the exceptions of when you're using binoculars, using the Look button to scope out an area, or sniping). The story unfolds through a mix of in-engine cutscenes brimming with Hollywood production values, audio dialogue through your Codec (a communicator built into your character's ear), and full-motion video. Your job is to infiltrate the facility and take them down. There's Sniper Wolf, a deadly and beautiful sharp shooter Vulcan Raven, a guy who carries a massive vulcan mini-cannon strapped to his back Revolver Ocelot, master of the quick draw, and many more.

These soldiers-gone-bad are a collection of eccentric and specialized commandos, each with their own weird name. It appears that an elite group of "Next Generation Special Forces" has taken over a nuclear weapons depot and plan on popping off nukes if the U.S. In Metal Gear Solid, you take on the role of Solid Snake, a special forces operative brought out of retirement to resolve a terrorist situation in Alaska. Some would even say that Metal Gear Solid is to the PlayStation what Half-Life is to the PC. It was a great interactive cinematic experience, with incredible in-engine cutscenes, and a storyline head and shoulders above typical videogame fluff. We recommend: PII 300, 64MB RAM, 3D accelerator card, gamepadĪs a devout PlayStation guy back in my college days, I loved Metal Gear Solid.

Required: PII 266, 32MB RAM, 300 MB hard-drive space

This console port suffers from PlayStationitis, but it may be worth your time if you haven't played it before
