Starting in 1987, this famous stealth series has kept us on the edge of our seats. Here are 5 reasons why you should take a shot at the Metal Gear series, starting with its first classic installments that you can now buy on GOG.COM.
1. The series introduced stealth gameplay to video games
Described originally as Tactical Espionage Action, Metal Gear, released in 1987, showed gamers that prudence can trump an all-out attack. The main hero of the story, Solid Snake, has to infiltrate a heavily fortified state of Outer Heaven to destroy Metal Gear, a walking tank capable of launching nuclear missiles.
Much to gamers’ surprise at the time, the “Rambo” approach of shooting your way through Outer Heaven proved counterproductive in Konami’s title. In fact, keeping a low profile and hiding from the guards in the shadows or behind obstacles was a much more effective way to succeed. From that time, many other stealth games were born, like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and Dishonored, but it was Metal Gear who first opened the door to a more sneaky way of playing.
2. The plot is full of twists and is more than meets the eye
The development team behind the first Metal Gear games, with Hideo Kojima on top, simply loved multi-layered spy intrigues. Without spoiling anything, the story of Metal Gear Solid from 1998 starts as a typical infiltration mission and ends up showing Solid Snake more about himself than he would probably wish to know. Plot twists are a backbone of the Metal Gear series’ story, and you have to be ready to be confused more than once.
3. A set of memorable, over-the-top characters
The lore of the Metal Gear series is very cinematic, not surprisingly, because its creators are huge silver …read more
Source:: GOG – Good Old Games
