Konami Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 - PlayStation 5

METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol. 1 contains “Metal Gear Solid,” “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,” “Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater” and much more bonus content. Bonus content includes the first title in the METAL GEAR series, a Screenplay Book containing in-game text of each title and a Master Book detailing the story and characters. Also included in the bonus content of the METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol. 1 will be two digital graphic novels. The Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel is a fully voiced, digital comic depicting the events of Metal Gear Solid through beautifully dynamic animated panels, followed by Metal Gear Solid 2: Digital Graphic Novel that expands on the events of the sequel. Review: A Must Have for Any Metal Gear Fan! - These games hold a very special place for me. I actually had the privilege of interviewing David Hayter, the voice of Snake, years ago and he was an incredible person. Coming back to these classics through the Master Collection on PS5 brought all of that nostalgia rushing back. The collection does a great job of preserving what made these games so legendary. The storytelling, the gameplay, the atmosphere, there is truly nothing else like Metal Gear Solid. Playing through them again reminded me why this series left such a lasting impression on so many people. Having all of it packaged together on PS5 is a convenient and easy way to experience or revisit one of gaming's greatest franchises. Whether you played these back in the day or are discovering them for the first time, the depth and creativity Hideo Kojima brought to these games still holds up. If you grew up with Metal Gear or just appreciate gaming history, this collection is absolutely worth it. Highly recommend! Review: The best console version available for these games - Konami has continually updated this collection of Metal Gear Solid games over the last year that it has been available. It was released in a disappointing state, the biggest offender was the Nintendo Switch version which I would have bought instead but all 3 games are limited to 30fps which is hard to accept when the PS2 and PS3 both ran these titles (MGS2 + MGS3) at 50-60fps. The reason why is they used Unity engine as a shell that houses the emulators running these games and the Nintendo Switch just doesn’t have the single threaded performance to run the games at 60fps. If these were native ports, it would have worked. This is why I opted for the PS5 version instead and only the first game runs at 30fps and this is because of the game’s tick rate being tied to the frame rate. The game would speed up like you were watching it at 2x speed. But MGS 2 and 2 run at a locked 60fps. If you grew up playing these masterpieces like I did, you know how influential and impressive they were back in the early 2000s. Hideo Kojima really is one of the most brilliant game developers and directors in the industry. Konami are really not smart from a business perspective to have parted ways with him. It’s sad because I would like for there to be more games in this franchise and I really don’t see how it would be possible without him. They tried it a few years ago with Metal Gear Survive and it was a critical and financial disappointment, this is because it was a multiplayer game with micro transactions and didn’t have a decent story. This collection is now to the point of being superior to the Bluepoint HD collection (of which The Master Collection is based on), thanks to numerous bugs and glitches that were never fixed in the 2013 release that Konami has repaired and improved over the last year. We will soon get update version 2.0 which brings some more big changes. The PC/Steam version of MGSMC has already received the patch in September and it’s been confirmed that PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch will all get it in the near future. Whenever it arrives, I will update my review because I want to list all of the changes as this update will be the biggest one thus far. Update- version 2.0 did drop for Xbox and PlayStation and we now get native 4k versions of MGS 2 and 3 at 60fps. Switch is of course left behind as it seems to lack the required performance necessary to run these games at 60fps (at least because of the way the ported these games using emulation inside of a Unity Engine container). The Switch could technically do it, as it’s similar in performance to Xbox 360 and PS3 but it must not be worth it for the devs to give us the option. At least 2 out of the 3 platforms are now in a respectable state.