Description
Substance is a re-vamped and re-vised edition of the original
Metal Gear Solid 2: Son's of Liberty, in which Solid Snake must recover the stolen Metal Gear Ray from a group of terrorists bent on using its power for un-thinkable reasons.
Along with the original espionage shooter comes a collection of 200 virtual reality (VR) missions. Missions range from killing certain targets and using particular weapons, as well as seeing the world of Solid Snake from different perspectives and styles, with 1st person target modes and a variety mode including crazy characters of different shapes and sizes.
Also included are a range of alternative missions, that has you sneaking around and snapping photos of targets, to bomb disposal, all out destruction and more.
Alternate Titles
- "MGS2S" -- Common abbreviation
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| PSX Extreme |
PlayStation 2 |
Mar 06, 2003 |
9.9 out of 10 |
99 |
| Game Revolution |
PlayStation 2 |
Apr, 2003 |
A- |
91 |
| IGN |
Xbox |
Nov 08, 2002 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| Armchair Empire, The |
PlayStation 2 |
Mar 16, 2003 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| HardGamers |
Xbox |
Feb 09, 2003 |
88 out of 100 |
88 |
| Game Informer Magazine |
PlayStation 2 |
Apr, 2003 |
8.5 out of 10 |
85 |
| Gamekult |
Windows |
Mar 25, 2003 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| GameSpot |
Windows |
Apr 10, 2003 |
7.8 out of 10 |
78 |
| Games TM |
PlayStation 2 |
Feb, 2003 |
7 out of 10 |
70 |
| PC Gameplay (Benelux) |
Windows |
May, 2003 |
59 out of 100 |
59 |
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Trivia
Hideo Kojima was partially inspired to call this version of Metal Gear Solid 2: "Substance" by 70's British band Joy Division's greatest hits compilation cd entitled Substance 1977-1980.