Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty (Playstation2 2002)

Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty was released on the Sony Playstation2 entertainment system in 2001.

The Story

After Metal Gear Solid, Snake returns for the sequel of Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty. The game starts off by showing a rainy night above the George Washington Bridge and then cuts to a solo figure slowly walking the bridge. He eventually breaks into a run; he then tosses aside his parka to reveal a stealth-suited Solid Snake. Snake bungee-jumps from the bridge; then the camera slowly follows his decent onto the huge tanker that navigates the rough waters below. From here on out, the footage is completely original. Snake lands on the tanker and deactivates his suit in a flurry of electricity. The camera looks him dead in the face as he takes in his surroundings; he then quickly finds some cover. The buzz of spinning helicopter blades cuts into the audio; then the camera cuts to the helicopter that hovers some distance from the chopper. A man stares through a pair of binoculars at Snake, and as the binoculars lower, we see that it's Revolver Ocelot. Ocelot tells someone through a radio that "the boy has arrived" and that "he'll know soon enough" before the camera moves on.

The sequence then shows Snake getting a call, and there's a sequence in which he discusses his situation with Otacon, who's communicating with him through Snake's codec. In this sequence, you actually see full-colour 3D models of both Otacon's and Snake's faces, which is a sizable difference over the black-and-white animated sprites in last year's game. After Snake's done with dropping code words such as "Shadow Moses" and "the philanthropy group," the game gives you a little training session that helps you brush up on your skills.

Back to the story, however, the Metal Gear Rex test data collected during the incident on Shadow Moses Island was later sold on the black market, and now every nuclear-capable country in the world has built its own Rex. To combat this problem, an unknown entity has constructed Metal Gear Ray (think stingray), a colossal mechanized beast whose sole purpose is to destroy the many variants of Rex. In the trailer, it appears that a terrorist group wants to hijack Ray for its own purposes, and Solid Snake is the only man who can stop them. According to the designers, the game takes place in New York City, although most of the trailer contains scenes on board a huge tanker (possibly containing Metal Gear Ray itself).

Hideo Kojima likes to infuse his games with meaning. MGS dealt with the perils of nuclear war (as all games in the series do), but it also addressed issues of natural selection and tampering with the natural order through the gene soldiers and Solid Snake's rather interesting heritage. According to Kojima, Sons of Liberty will examine information and privacy in the digital age. Konami's MGS2 press material says about the game, "In a world where... everyday life is digitized, and truth and falsehood intertwine, how are we to see through all and how must we live our lives?"

The sequence then shows Snake getting a call, and there's a sequence in which he discusses his situation with Otacon, who's communicating with him through Snake's codec. In this sequence, you actually see full-colour 3D models of both Otacon's and Snake's faces, which is a sizable difference over the black-and-white animated sprites in last year's game. After Snake's done with dropping code words such as "Shadow Moses" and "the philanthropy group," the game gives you a little training session that helps you brush up on your skills.

Back to the story, however, the Metal Gear Rex test data collected during the incident on Shadow Moses Island was later sold on the black market, and now every nuclear-capable country in the world has built its own Rex. To combat this problem, an unknown entity has constructed Metal Gear Ray (think stingray), a colossal mechanized beast whose sole purpose is to destroy the many variants of Rex. In the trailer, it appears that a terrorist group wants to hijack Ray for its own purposes, and Solid Snake is the only man who can stop them. According to the designers, the game takes place in New York City, although most of the trailer contains scenes on board a huge tanker (possibly containing Metal Gear Ray itself).

Hideo Kojima likes to infuse his games with meaning. MGS dealt with the perils of nuclear war (as all games in the series do), but it also addressed issues of natural selection and tampering with the natural order through the gene soldiers and Solid Snake's rather interesting heritage. According to Kojima, Sons of Liberty will examine information and privacy in the digital age. Konami's MGS2 press material says about the game, "In a world where... everyday life is digitized, and truth and falsehood intertwine, how are we to see through all and how must we live our lives?"

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Game Infomation

Genre: Action/Adventure

Developer: Konami

Publisher: Konami

Distributer: ATARI