Remaster

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition

2011 · PlayStation 3 · Android · PlayStation Vita · Xbox 360 · Shooter · Tactical · Adventure

89IGDB player score
35 ratings

Previously Take

An 89 average flying under the radar. Worth knowing about before everyone else finds it. Built around not being seen. Ghost it or go loud, but ghosting is the real game. Solo only, and better for it — this is a one-player experience through and through.

About this game

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition feature an increased 720p resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio, providing a clearer and wider view of the player's surroundings compared to the original 480p resolution and 4:3 ratio of the PlayStation 2 version. Cutscenes can now be viewed in full-screen or letterboxed format, while online achievements/trophies have been added as well. Most of the additional content from Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance has also been ported in this version, such as the Missions and Snake Tales modes, although the Skateboarding mini-game that was present in the PlayStation 2 version of Substance is absent.

An espionage thriller set in an alternate near future. In a prologue chapter, legendary operative Solid Snake infiltrates a tanker on the Hudson River to photograph evidence of a new Metal Gear walking battle tank, only for Russian mercenaries to hijack the vessel and for his old rival Ocelot to seize the machine and sink the ship. Two years later, Snake is branded a terrorist while an offshore facility called the Big Shell rises to clean the resulting oil spill. When a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty storms the facility during a presidential visit, taking hostages and threatening its destruction, a rookie agent codenamed Raiden is sent in alone to rescue the captives and stop the terrorists. Aided by mysterious allies and haunted by his own past, Raiden uncovers a tangled web of deception reaching far beyond the Big Shell.