PlayStation 2
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

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Published by

Konami of America, Inc.

Developed by

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.

Released

Platform

ESRB Rating

Genre

Perspective

1st-Person Perspective, 3rd-Person Perspective

Non-Sport

Shooter, Spy / Espionage

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3.9

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Konami of America, Inc.
EVP Sales, Marketing, Operations	Richard P. Wnuk
VP Marketing	Chris Garske
Product Manager/Director of Marketing	Rick Naylor
Associate Product Manager	Jason Enos
Senior Manager Creative Services	Monique Catley
Director of Public Relations	Chris Kramer
Senior Public Relations Specialist	David Chen
Director of Marketing Communications	Cherrie McKinnon
Consumer Services	Jamal Carter, Mark A. Gonzalez
Sr. VP Product Development	Randy Broweleit
Director of Production	Sean House
US Localization Producer	Ken Ogasawara
QA Manager	Michael Klug
Lead Tester	James Hui
QA Liaison	Kengo Kishimoto
Testers	Huan-Hua Chye, Jonathan Vosovic, Debbie Yoon
Packaging & Manual Design	Department X
Special Thanks	Hideo Kojima, Scott Dolph and the entire MGS2 team at KONAMI JPN. Wilson Cheng, Lee Allison Verdeckberg, Candace McDonald, Catherine Fowler, Linda Stackpoole, Barbara Loo, Kathie Tompkins, Tim Vogt, Dennis Lee, Brett Robinson, Michelle Bravo, and everyone @ Konami of America, Matt Robinson, Daniel Castillo, Inc. John Foster and Tammy Schacter @ Bender Helper Impact, Henry Bilbao
Making of Metal Gear Solid 2 - Exclusive to European Versions
Director	Russell Uttley
Producer	Russell Uttley
Assistant Producer	Deborah Kilroy
Management	Lisa Fox
Art	Mike Alder, Eddie Deighton, Sean Delaney, Len O'Grady, Russell Uttley
Documentary - Produced by	Nicolas Beuglet
Special Thanks - Konami of Europe	Hans-Joachim Amann, Kunio Neo, Martin Schneider, Ella Siebert
Special Thanks - Konami France	Cécile Caminades, Ralph Champeau, Stéphanie Hattenberger, Hans-Jürgen Kohrs
Special Thanks - Konami UK	Emily Britt, Richard Jones, Jon Murphy, Michael Rotchell, Martine Saunders, Peter Stone
Special Thanks - Konami Japan	Yukako Hamaguchi
Special Thanks - Konami Computer Entertainment Japan Inc.	Scott Dolph, Hideo Kojima, Yoshikazu Matsuhana, Kazuki Muraoka, Yoji Shinkawa, Kazunobu Uehara, Motoyuki Yoshioka
Special Thanks - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe	John Bruning Sr., Chris Deering, Chris Eden, Kirk O'Connor, Martin Pearce, Mark Pittam, Geoff Rens, Denise Walker, Harris Watson, Louise Welch
Special Thanks ‑ Others	Toby Chu, Harry Gregson-Williams
Special Thanks ‑ GameSpot.com	Joe Fielder, Geoffrey Keighley
Cast
Cast	Earl Boen (Sergei), Cam Clarke (Liquid), Lary Cody (Rosemary), John Cygan (Solidus), Barry Dennen (Fatman), Greg Eagles (Peter), Paul Eiding (Colonel), Quinton Flynn (Jack), Maula Gale (Fortune), Kim Mai Guest (Mei Ling), Jennifer Hale (Emma), David Hayter (Snake), Paul Lukather (President), Phil LaMarr (Vamp), Vanessa Marshall (Olga), Christopher Randolph (Otacon), Peter Renaday (Ames), Kevin Michael Richardson (CMC Dolph), Patric Zimmerman (Ocelot)
Cast (other)	Dominic Armato (SEAL), Dee Bradley Baker (SEAL), Michael Bell (Russian soldier), Scott Dolph (Hostage), Jeff Doucette (SEAL), Richard Gilbert-Hill (Russian soldier), Michael Gough (Russian soldier), Nancy Linari (Computer voice), Roger Rose (Russian soldier), Neil Ross (SEAL), Dean Scofield (SEAL), William Morgan Sheppard (Russian soldier)
Staff
Original Story/Planning/Game Design	Hideo Kojima
Written by	Tomokazu Fukushima, Hideo Kojima
Setting Research/Justification	Tomokazu Fukushima, Satoshi Hirano, Hideo Kojima, Yoji Shinkawa
Military Advisor	Motosada Mori
Character & Mechanic designed by	Yoji Shinkawa
Assistant Director	Yoshikazu Matsuhana
Art Director	Yoji Shinkawa
Executive Producer	Motoyuki Yoshioka
Produced and Directed by	Hideo Kojima
Script Unit
Concept Map	Hideo Kojima
Map Design	Yoshikazu Matsuhana, Hiroaki Yoshiike
Script	Tomokazu Fukushima, Satoshi Hirano, Sadaaki Kaneyoshi, Yoshikazu Matsuhana, Shiro Mukaide, Shinta Nojiri, Nobumitsu Tanaka, Masatoshi Uehara, Shinji Yamashita, Hiroaki Yoshiike
Codec Script	Tomokazu Fukushima
Caption Integration	Scott Dolph, Satoshi Hirano, Shinya Ishikawa, Takaaki Kitamura, Kensuke Yoshitomi
Hazards	Nobumitsu Tanaka, Masatoshi Uehara, Yuko Yano
'The New York Mirror'	Tomokazu Fukushima
'The Shocking Conspiracy behind Shadow Moses'	Shuyou Murata
'In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth'	Natasha Romanenko
Script Director	Yoshikazu Matsuhana
3D Design Unit
Character Part	Kyoko Hariyama, Ikuya Nakamura, Rie Nishiki, Ikki Sakakibara, Hideki Sasaki, Daizo Shikama
Character Art Director	Hideki Sasaki
Mechanical Art Director	Mineshi Kimura
Background Part	Noriyuki Katsumura, Mineshi Kimura, Yoshiyuki Koido, Takashi Mizutani, Daisuke Mogi, Shinpei Murakami, Yutaka Negishi
Background Prop Creation	Hoshiko Kamata, Tomomi Kato, Natsuyo Tanaka
Background Design	Toshio Noguchi, Yoji Shinkawa
Background Art Director	Yutaka Negishi
Lighting Direction	Yoji Shinkawa
Director of 3DCG design	Takashi Mizutani
2D Design Unit
Concept Design	Yoji Shinkawa
Display Design	Juntaro Saito
2D Designers	Tohru Kawakami, Juntaro Saito, Kenji Yokoyama
Otacon Puppet Animation	Ikuya Nakamura
Director of 2DCG Design	Juntaro Saito
Program Unit
Main Programmers	Yuji Korekado (enemy AI), Shigeo Okajima (effects), Makoto Sonoyama (player), Kazunobu Uehara (system)
Main Technical Programmer	Kunio Takabe
Programmers	Kenjirou Kano, Yoshihito Kira, Satoru Kobayashi, Yuji Korekado, Yuta Kunibe, Tomonori Morita, Shigeo Okajima, Masafumi Okuta, Hiroki Satoyoshi, Tsunehiko Shibata, Kenichiro Shigeno, Makoto Sonoyama, Kunio Takabe, Yuko Yano
Tool Support	Nobumitsu Tanaka, Shinji Yamashita
Director of Program	Kazunobu Uehara
Motion Unit
Key Animators	Makoto Akashi, Hiroyuki Inoue, Yukiko Kaneda, Nobuyoshi Nishimura, Yoriko Shimizu, So Toyota, Ryoko Yoshimura, Masahiro Yoshinaga
Animators	Kyoko Hariyama, Hoshiko Kamata, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Hironobu Matsui, Takahiro Omori, Yoshinori Onodera
Facial Expresion Animators	Kyoko Hariyama, Yukiko Kaneda, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Tsubasa Masao, Kumi Sato, Yoriko Shimizu, So Toyota, Ryoko Yoshimura
Director of Motion Design	So Toyota
Sound Unit
Composition/Arrangement	Norihiko Hibino
Built‑in Sound Effects	Akihiro Honda, Ryoji Makimura
Demo Part Sound Effects	Kazuki Muraoka, Sotaro Tojima, Masashi Watanabe
Sound Editing	Akihiro Honda, Maki Kirioka, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuki Muraoka
Raven Figure Voice	Shigeo Okajima
Referee Voice	Scott Dolph
Voices in Arsenal Gear by	Sanae Shintani
Additional Rhythm Loop by	Toshiyuki Kakuta
Demo Music Composed by	Harry Gregson-Williams
Recorded & Mixed by	Alan Meyerson (at Media Ventures Studio)
Ending Theme	Rika Muranaka
Sound Director	Kazuki Muraoka
Voice Recording Part
Voice Over Director	Kris Zimmerman
Dialogue Mixer	Devon Bowman
Voice Over Coordinator	Keiko Ono
Casting Director	Yumi Takada
Demo Sound Effects Production Part
Recording Engineers	Yasuo Higashidate (Idiom Inc.), Makoto Morimoto (Idiom Inc.), Hideaki Nojima, Masayoshi Ookawa, Toru Oka (Idiom Inc.), Yasushi Takahashi (Idiom Inc.)
Supervising Sound Editor	Tak Ogawa
Sound Editors	Akihiro Teruta, Keisuke Shibutani
Studio Manager	Mamoru Sase (Idiom Inc.)
Vibration Effects Artist	Ikuya Nakamura
Real Time Demo Unit
Storyboard	Takashi Mizutani, Juntaro Saito
Real Time Demo Production	Youg Baek Kim, Masaya Kobayashi, Takashi Mizutani, Hideaki Mori, Shintaro Naka, Natsuyo Tanaka, Syuhei Tanaka, Hiroyuki Tsuchida
Real Time Demo Director	Takashi Mizutani
Motion Capturing Actors/Staff
Attractive Action Club	Kyosuke Akita, Hirofumi Fukuzawa, Yuki Kajikazawa, Yuka Komatsu (Aoni Production), Eiji Morisaki, Kimiko Mukouda, Motoko Nagino, Akira Oohashi, Toshinori Sasaki, Syouji Sawada, Yuji Takatsuki, Kenichi Yoshida (Pale Riders), Mizuho Yoshida
Action Director	Mitsuo Abe (AAC)
Links DigiWorks Inc.	Yasuyo Hirao, Naoyuki Kanaii, Masaaki Murakami, Kazuhisa Nishimura, Shigeru Oohata, Akira Sakawa, Hiroyuki Wada, Ryuichi Yamada
Movie Unit
Editing	Hideo Kojima
Video Conversion	Ryosaku Ueno
Real Life Footage Photographer	Rui Naito (KONAMI Corporation)
Shinkawa Theater Editing	Hajime Yashiro
Shinkawa Theater Illustration	Yoji Shinkawa
Designers	Kyle Cooper, Ellerey Gave
Executive Producers	Kyle Cooper, Phyllis Weisband
Producer	Kimberly Cooper
Editor	Carsten Becker
Animators	Jennifer Gallo, Asa Hammond, Ben Lopez, Christian Severin
Video Game Consultant	Seth Kleinberg
Package Unit
Title Design	Ichiro Kutome
Manual	Shuyou Murata
Illustration	Yoji Shinkawa
Comic Strip	Hoshiko Kamata, Toshio Noguchi, Juntaro Saito
Manual Cuts	Takahiro Omori
Poster Models	Saya Mochizuki, Mao Shiina
Screen Footage	Mao Shiina (From Lip)
International Coordination	Scott Dolph
Additional Translations	Hans-Joachim Amann, Scott Dolph, Hans-Jürgen Kohrs
European Version Supervision	Satoshi Hirano
New York Shooting Cooperation	Sayuri Nakata
Cooperation	David Cox, Aki Hitachi, Kenichiro Imaizumi (Konami HWI), Yumiko Kitamura, Hidehiko Maki, Yasuyoshi Matsuhana, Sanae Shintani, Hiroki Tachibana
Ending Theme - "Can't Say Good Bye To Yesterday"
Music & Words	Rika Muranaka
Produced by	Rika Muranaka
Recorded by	James Nicholas (at Manhattan Center Studio)
Mixed by	Alan Meyerson (at Media Ventures Studio)
Ending Theme	Onaje Allangumbs (piano), Don Braden (sax), Kenny Davis (bass), Robin Eubanks (trombone), Eugene Jackson (drums), Carla White (vocal)

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Paul Eiding, 52 other games
Phil LaMarr, 47 other games
Chris Kramer, 47 other games
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Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, a group of 31 people
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, a group of 31 people
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, a group of 30 people
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Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog, a group of 27 people
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ESPN NFL Primetime 2002, a group of 25 people
Lunar Knights, a group of 24 people
Dance Dance Revolution, a group of 23 people
Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007, a group of 20 people
Firefighter F.D. 18, a group of 20 people
Dance Dance Revolution: Konamix, a group of 19 people
Frogger: The Great Quest, a group of 18 people
Metal Gear Solid, a group of 17 people
Shadow of Destiny, a group of 16 people