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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. Schadenfreude Bronze Star Contributing Member (578) 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars

The Press Says

Game Vortex Apr 30, 2003 100 out of 100 100
IGN Apr 02, 2003 8.9 out of 10 89
GameStar (Germany) Mar, 2003 85 out of 100 85
GameSpy May 30, 2003 84 out of 100 84
Jeuxvideo.com Mar 24, 2003 16 out of 20 80
Gamekult Mar 25, 2003 8 out of 10 80
Game Chronicles Apr 30, 2003 7.9 out of 10 79
ActionTrip Apr 11, 2003 77 out of 100 77
JeuxVideoPC.com May 04, 2005 15 out of 20 75
Joystick May, 2003 6 out of 10 60

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Trivia

MGS2 has the biggest (as of 2003) installation size for a PC game. It takes up a whopping 7.17GB.


This entry was contributed by Corn Popper (66198) and Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9909)
 

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