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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" -- Abbreviation

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User Reviews

The game that has IT ALL. Dr. Von Katze (558) 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
PC Games (Germany) Mar 26, 2003 86 out of 100 86
Game Power Australia Jun 03, 2003 8.5 out of 10 85
GameSpy May 30, 2003 84 out of 100 84
PC Action Apr 09, 2003 80 out of 100 80
Gamekult Mar 25, 2003 8 out of 10 80
Jeuxvideo.com Mar 24, 2003 16 out of 20 80
Game Chronicles Apr 30, 2003 7.9 out of 10 79
GameSpot Apr 10, 2003 7.8 out of 10 78

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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.


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