Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (2002)

by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Success Corporation, Konami
Genres:Adventure, Shooter
Themes:Action, Stealth
Game modes:Single player
Story:Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance is a re-vamped and revised edition of the original Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, in which Solid Snake must recover the stolen Metal Gear Ray from a group of terrorists bent on using its power for unthinkable 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 first-person target modes and a variety mode including crazy characters of different shapes and sizes. Also included are various alternative missions, ranging from the protagonist sneaking around and snapping photos of targets to bomb disposal, all out destruction, and more.Show more
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user avatar@Akabuuuser avatar@Akabuu
January 29, 2025
i member wen video game was on gog. good time.
GoG actually had this available before but Konami pulled it back in 2021. I missed out on being able to buy this before it was delisted and, even though the new collection is available everywhere, I still want to be able to play this particular port of the game.
GoG previously had the original PC port of Substance available, but was unlisted for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. The current port for modern systems, the Master Collection, is a minimum effort port of the HD Collection version from 2011 which was based on the Xbox port of Substance. The Xbox port suffered from a laundry list of issues in comparison to the original PS2 release that the HD Collection only added to, and the Master Collection added a deluge of new issues on top of those. The original PC port was also based on the Xbox port and similarly suffered from a host of problems that fans had made efforts to fix. Honestly, the results were mixed, but even without those fixes it's at least one less layer of porting problems.
I hope this game gets back on gog. I Did buy this game before it got delisted and I hope other bpeople gets the chance to get it.
-one of the best games ever ---works like a dream ---speedrunners (not me) would love this ---every gamer should play this ---it`s PC ---it` s not overwhelming processing with "nothing " like some modern re-releases
imma say it, this is the goat mgs. Playing this as a kid without having played any other mgs and seeing the weird and meta (and, still to this day, very relevant) story really changed something in the way i see video games as a medium.
I really want to see this game, I think it's important to gaming history. I would love to keep a copy locally for my collection. This Metal Gear Solid series is what got me started with video games, and I think I have a huge hole in my digital collection in not having this game.
Bring this game back. I did buy this along with MGS1 when it was initially available. It's frustrating to see games like this get taken down when more people could have bought it.
user avatar@mben67user avatar@mben67
March 20, 2025
one of my favorite game of the entire franchise, back in those days when the internet explode with the first trailer of this game the konami site was take down because many people wanna see that trailer
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