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 game that has IT ALL. Windows Schadenfreude Bronze Star Contributing Member (578)
An Amazing (Cinematic?) Experience PlayStation 2 Nick Slavin (11)

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.


This entry was contributed by Corn Popper (66164) and Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9910)
 

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