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Metal Gear:Solid

Release date: 09/04/1998(japan)
                        10/22/1998 (America)
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System: Playstation
Number of players: One

             This is the game that started the Metal Gear legacy for a new generation of gamers. Back again is our hero, Solid Snake, thrown into yet another mission he could have gone without taking. Metal Gear: Solid was the first game in the series to be released since MG2:Solid Snake. This was the game that creator Hideo Kojima had been aiming for all along. Up until now,the console systems didnt have near the power to come close to this game. But with the release of the Sony Playstation,Kojimas vision for the true tactical espionage game was finally put into reality.

               With the memory capability of a CD-ROM compared to an old cartridge,this game was vastly improved upon compared to its prequels.Along with modern graphic technology,the disc based game was an instant impressive hit. Although it did not offer much more in the way of manuvers from the earlier games,the advancment of 3D technology gave it a more dramatic and movie-like flair.It also introduced a first person view mode which when used,can give the player a fulle 360 degree view of his surroundings. Also added with this game was a vast array of weapons and items.Even though Snake starts out with no weapons as you begin,the weapons you procure along the way are most impressive. But Kojima did leave a few familiar things for veterans of the older games to remember,such as Snakes pack of cigarettes and the fun-to-use tool.....the ever immortal cardboard box.

            This game usually retails at most video game stored for around $19.99. A must buy.

In-Game Secrets

(Kudos to MG forever for the list of secrets and info below)

Stealth - To get the Stealth, Submit to Ocelot's Torture, then complete the Game (You should receive the ending w/ Otacon). Replay the game over your old data and you will have the Stealth in your inventory. The Stealth grants you invincibility to everything except Boss Battles, Important in game battles, and Wolves.

Bandana - To receive the Bandana, do NOT Submit to Ocelot's Torture. Then, complete the Game (You should have gotten the Ending w/ Meryl). Play again over your old data and the Bandana will be in your inventory. The Bandana grants you un-limited ammo.

Camera - To receive the Camera, When you receive a Level 6 security card, go to the area where you fought Revolver Ocelot (Second Floor Basement, Hangar). Exit that room (the way you came in) and place a C4 on the wall to your right. The wall will blow, revealing two new doors. In the first door is where the Camera is. W/ the camera, you can take pictures (It's more fun than it sounds).
VR Training

Practice Mode - Sneak through ten levels without being spotted by the guards. Each stage increases in difficulty and the amount of obsitcles.

Time Attack Mode - Defeat all ten levels on Practice Mode Time Attack Mode is like Practice Mode, except you have a set Time to complete each mission.

Gun Shooting Mode - Defeat all Ten Levels of Time Attack Mode like the previsious. Except, you have a set time to complete all levels, a set amount of ammo, and you must kill every guard.

Survival Mode - Defeat all ten levels on Gun Shooting Mode,The Hardest of them all. You have to complete all the levels in under 7:00, and you must conserve your ammo, your not refilled immediately after each stage. You must also kill all the guards to proceed.

Tecnical Demonstration Mode - Defeat Survival Mode...This mode shows you how to beat all the Gun-Shooting modes in record time.

Extra Features

Theater Mode - Complete the Game.
The Theater Mode lets you view all the Cut-Scenes and Radio Transmissions from one game. Roll-A is obtained by beating the game w/ the Meryl ending, while Roll B is obtained by beating the game w/ the Otacon Ending.
Picture Mode - Complete the Game w/ the Camera let's you edit pictures taken w/ the camera.

Ghost Images

Here are the ghost photos. These are pictures, that when taken of certain things, show images of the Programmers super-imposed on them.

1. Kojima: Otacon lab (the picture frame to the right)
2. Matsuhana: Hallway of corpses (outside Otacon's lab)
3. Sato: Comm Twr A (roof destroyed by a Hind D missile)
4. Nakamura: In Meryl's blood pool (where she is sniped)
5. Shinkawa: Deep in Sniper Wolfs hallway behind the second pillar
6. Uehara: Edge of elevator (the one were the ravens are)
7. Negishi: Sewage waterfall
8. Mizutani: When fighting Metal Gear
9. Korekado: Men's restroom
10. Sasaki: Picture frames in the Commanders room
11. Sonoyama: Torture machine
12. Toyota: Container in the middle of Raven's warehouse
13. Kozyou: Behind the watertank-like structure in the Canyon
14. Shimizu: Wolf dog cave (first crawling point)
15. Kaneda: The mirror located in the Women's restroom
16. Fukushima: Heliport, looking out to sea from cliff
17. Takade: Ninja room, glass atedga
18. Fujimura: Elevator, in the Comm Twr B complex
19. Shikama: Electric floor
20. Kimura: MG underground base, tip of Metal Gear's railgun
21. Kobayashi: Rock in canyon
22. Okajima: Maggots of the real DARPA Chef in cell
23. Nishimura: Next to Baker's corpse
24. Mukaide: Reflection in wolfdog cave puddle
25. Onoda: Where Baker is tied up
26. Kitao: Decoy Octopus (fake DARPA chief) corpse
27. Yoshimura: Dead end of air duct
28. Hirano: Elevator (Comm Twr B) deep in the shaft of top level
29. Muraoka: Water in cargo dock
30. Ishiyama: Heliport top of building
31. Ito: Inside elevator to tank hangar
32. Jerem Blaustein: Sniper Wolfs corpse
33. Yoshioka: Bridge on the third floor of the blast furnace
34. Mori: Lowest point of elevator (Comm Twr B)
35. Kinbara: Darck area of stairs
36. Tougo: End of boiler room (in Blast Furnace where the steam is)
37. Makimura: Hidden armory store room behind the weakened wall)
38. Kutome: Observation room
39. Tanaka: Heliport, sleeping solider
40. Shigeno: Heliport, security area by staircase
41. Yamashita: Tip of nuke warhead in nukestorage room
42. Kobayashi: Johnny Sasaki holding cell, near DARPA chief
43. Scott Dolph: Way down in the dark from the walkway between Comm Tower A and B

Extreme Difficulty - To get extreme diffculity, beat the game on any level.

Fa-Mas Laser Gun - To get your Fa-Mas to use laser sights, you must first have your Bandana. Then, wait until you only have three more bullets left. Then, Use your bandana, and your Fa-Mas will be able to trace! Very Useful.

Tuxedo - To play as Solid Snake in a Tuxedo Suit, beat the game twice using your old data. Then, on your third game, Snake will change into his Tuxedo while your going up the first elevator.

Red Ninja - To fight the Ninja wearing a red costume, beat the game two times using your old data. Then, the Ninja you fight will be in a weird Red get-up.

Meryl in her Underwear 1 - To see Meryl in her Underwear for the first time, here's what you do. When your going through the holding ducts to get to the Darpa Chief's cell, look down into the cell were Meryl is. Then, Go back out, down the ladder, and back up again, and look down into her cell again. Keep doing this
five or six more times, and then when you look down she'll be doing sit-up's.....Without and pants on!

Meryl in her Underwear 2 - When you're supposed to find Meryl when she is masquerading as a soldier, she will immediately run into the bathroom when caught. If the time when you enter the bathroom and you get to the last stall is under five seconds, you will catch Meryl w/out and pants on, again!

Delivery Truck - To use the delivery truck for transportation, grab a Cardboard Box. Then, get in the back of the truck, and get in the Box. The soldier will get in the truck, and drive the box to the designated area (It says on the box). You must use a box that has an area written on it that is different than the one you are in.

Nice Wolves - There are two methods to get the wolves not to attack you. First is, equip Sniper Wolf's handkerchief. The Second (Harder but more fun) is... First enter the cave and kill all the dogs, except for the little one near Meryl. Then, shoot Meryl and get into a cardboard box. The little dog will then "relieve" himself on your box. From then on, whenever you walk through the caves, equip your box and you'll go through un-harmed.

Piss-Off Mei Ling - To Piss off Mei Ling, simply call her 10 times w/out saving. She'll then get pissed and stick her tongue out at you.