Game Boy Color

Metal Gear Solid

Description

Metal Gear Solid (original Japanese name: Metal Gear: Ghost Babel) for GameBoy Color is not the same game as the popular Playstation/PC installment of the series. It is not set within the storyline of Metal Gear series, but instead tells an unrelated episode featuring the same hero - special agent Solid Snake. A secret government project, codenamed "Babel", attempts to revive the Metal Gear project - development of a highly destructive mech weapon. But an organization known as Gindran Liberation Front hijacked the Metal Gear prototype, without which any further development would be useless. Solid Snake is sent to infiltrate Outer Heaven, a location not entirely unfamiliar to him, and to retrieve the prototype.

The game is similar in style and gameplay to early Metal Gear games. It is viewed from top-down perspective, and its gameplay is mostly based on stealth. Snake has to sneak past the guards, using various tactics to distract them or to kill them silently. Weapons, gadgets, and moves are all similar to those used in the other Metal Gear Solid game. From time to time Snake will also encounter bosses whom he will have to defeat in order to proceed to the next area. Virtual Missions for Snake are also included in this release.

Alternate Titles

• "MGS" -- Common abbreviation
• "Metal Gear: Ghost Babel" -- Japanese Title

Part of the Following Groups

• Metal Gear series
• Protagonist: Mullet haircut

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User Reviews

The style of the Playstation, minus the tricks of the MSX.

P Ray (8)

unrated

The Press Says

IGN	May 05, 2000	10 out of 10	100
Power Unlimited	Sep, 2000	9.8 out of 10	98
GamingEvolution	2004	9.7 out of 10	97
GameSpot	May 30, 2000	9.4 out of 10	94
Jeuxvideo.com	May 23, 2000	18 out of 20	90
Game Informer Magazine	May, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Gamekult	Oct 19, 2000	9 out of 10	90
HonestGamers	2000	9 out of 10	90
Total! (Germany)	Apr, 2000	1.75 out of 6	85
Game Critics	Aug 20, 2000	7.5 out of 10	75

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