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Walkthrough Pt 9: LAV Boss Fight.

Walkthrough Pt 5: The briefing files for mission 1.

Two mysterious visitors come to MSF to speak with Big Boss.

Join the troops on their training day.

Raiden takes on the mad bomber known as Fatman at the heliport.

Raiden finds a Nikita launcher to take out the power generator from the inside.

Snake and Raiden come to the PlayStation Vita with the launch of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

Transfer your game save from PS3 to Vita without missing a beat in Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

Now you can do naked cartwheels in full HD. Thanks, Raiden.

The acclaimed Metal Gear Solid HD Collection comes to the Vita.

Konami's recent Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is an odd product for shipping without anything called "Metal Gear Solid HD" in the box. One part of series creator Hideo Kojima views the omission as a call to be answered, while another is eager to spend less time in the past.

"There are a lot of people wanting remakes of the original, and as producer I want to answer those calls," Kojima tells Official PlayStation Magazine. "But as a creator I'm not very interested in going back. If we were to do it, it would have to be a total remake - the only thing that would be the same would be the story. If it happened at some point I would stay as a producer, but would have to hand off most of the actual creating."

We've heard of Metal Gear Solid's seemingly inevitable continuation before, and of Kojima's wearying dance between director and producer. The first Metal Gear Solid is satisfactory in being "the game I wanted to make," says Kojima, who sounds like he'd rather not meddle and make it once more -- never mind that it's already been redone in MGS: Twin Snakes with the help of Silicon Knights and Nintendo. "If you bring the gameplay up to modern standards, then you lose a bit of the original game. It was a game made for a certain era - not just the story, but the controls and everything about it reflect that era in which the game was made."

That's right. Back in the day, there wasn't enough visual fidelity to tell whose footprints those were -- and we liked it.

The official Metal Gear Solid website features a new Saga section to help gamers untangle the convoluted timeline of Hideo Kojima's oft-confusing signature franchise...

Asking a Metal Gear fan to pick his or her favorite Solid sucks. To many, these titles are more than just games. Raiden, Snake and Big Boss are personal friends -- characters that have helped some players through troublesome times and created cherished memories of blowing off class to master close-q...

Jeff and Patrick try to hold on to their sanity as they take a high definition tour of Hideo Kojima's mind.

According to Hideo Kojima's Twitter account, he's playing close attention to these ports.

You would think we should know about every video game coming out this fall already, but Konami only decided today to nail down a release date for the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection: November 8.

The collection bundles together high-definition versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, in addition to ports of the MSX2 versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

The only thing the package is missing is the original Metal Gear Solid, which you can purchase over PlayStation Network. Xbox 360 owners are out of luck for the time being, and Konami appears to be conveniently forgetting the Metal Gear Solid remake that Silicon Knights worked on.

I’m actually looking forward to finally playing Peace Walker, which I’d passed over because I didn’t feel like playing a modern Metal Gear Solid game without a second analog stick.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will hit PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 3rd 2012, Konami announced today...

The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection adds much fancier in-game visuals to what were once PS2 and PSP games. And now Konami is adding some cosmetic enhancements to the packaging, as well, at least for those willing to splash out a little more.

The HD Collection will be available in a Limited Edition, with new box art by series artist Yoji Shinkawa and an exclusive art book. No pricing details have been announced -- but, then, no pricing details for the standard retail or downloadable versions have been announced either. So whatever the standard one costs, this one will cost a little more than that.

#metalgearsolid What, you want more than just HD remastered versions of Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, and Peace Walker? Then what you want is the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which comes with an art book and so much more! Okay, one thing more. More »

Already preordered the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection? Well, you might want to get a refund and apply it toward the Metal Gear Solid HD Limited Edition. Konami has announced that the bundle which includes Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will come out at the same time as the regular edition. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection in Action What will it include? Well.....

#metalgearsolid2 I got to play Metal Gear Solid 2 this morning at Konami's Tokyo Game Show booth, the game part of the company's HD collection of the older titles in the series. More »

So much for a stealthy infiltration to retail: Konami has announced that the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is slated for a Japanese launch of November 23 (as reported by Japanese games blog Game Jouhou). Word came during Konami's stage show event during TGS 2011 today -- err, that may be tomorrow. We're still not sure how the whole time thing works over there.

Outside of launch window, Konami revealed the game would have a special feature allowing players to view select scenes in either traditional full frame (4:3) or in the now-norm widescreen mode (16:9). Additionally, the PS3 version will come with a download voucher for the original Metal Gear Solid on PSN. An Xbox 360 incentive is currently being decided.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is slated to launch in North America "this winter."

There isn't much to say about Konami's Gamescom walkthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater from the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. Those who have played before will see their fond memories upgraded in HD, while those who haven't are in for a treat with a remastered version of a Konami classic.

Hideo Kojima recently Tweeted a few images of -- AH! Oh, sorry. We've been just a little jumpy since we saw this recent Tweet from Hideo Kojima, which shows off the facial rendering system of his studio's new Fox Engine, without any calming context whatsoever. Alongside the images, Kojima mentioned that the man depicted is a "killed character." That's fortunate, because we don't really want anything with a face this horrifying to be alive.

Check out a pair of larger, even more soul-rattling images from the Fox facial system after the break, followed immediately by an image of our reaction to these scary-ass countenances.

#metalgear The latest batch of screens showing off the nicely polished Metal Gear Solid HD Collection seem to have a puzzling fixation on the menus. I suppose it's fitting, as I spent a lot of time in Snake Eater flipping through menus to play dress up, apply makeup, and consume reptiles. And yeah, that probably won't change. More »

Yesterday, IGN brought you the breakdown of just what versions of what games were in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection straight from Metal Gear Overlord Hideo Kojima's Twitter. Today, we're bringing you the icons for the PlayStation Network Trophies in the games... again, straight from Kojima's Twitter. Kojima's Tweet didn't mention anything about these icon doubling for the Xbox Achievement icons. Do you plan on chasing these awards? Let us know in the comments below...

When Konami announced Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, the world rejoiced. OK, maybe just Metal Gear nerds like us. Still, we all wondered what versions of the games we'd be getting as there have been so many. Today, Metal Gear Overlord Hideo Kojima set the record straight on Twitter...

Hideo Kojima, comfortable in his natural habitat (Twitter) provided details of two regional versions of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. In Japan, the collection does not include Peace Walker, but does have a download code for the first Metal Gear Solid. The "overseas version" (meaning the one we get) doesn't include the download, but incorporates the HD version of Peace Walker.

In both regional variants, the HD version of Metal Gear Solid 3 is based on the "Subsistence" re-release, which means it has optional, user-controllable camera angles. That version also comes with the emulated MSX versions of Metal Gear 1 and 2, adding two more games to the collection!

Kojima also said that the Metal Gear Solid 2 HD release would be based on "subsistence," by which he must have meant "Substance." He wasn't clear on whether the basis was the PS2 or Xbox version -- a distinction that seems minor until you learn that the PS2 version had a skateboarding minigame that we need in HD. Finally, Kojima tweeted an image of the trophy icons for MGS2 and 3, which you can see after the break.

There's nothing quite like a butter-smooth frame rate, is there? Fans should be happy to learn that the upcoming Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will indeed run at a slick 60 frames per second.

After sharing images of the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker remake, Hideo Kojima tweeted, "60 frames per second in HD... it's the best! Say peace!" Kojima Productions' Jiroo Tsubuyaki also confirmed the frame rate in a different tweet.

As Andriasang notes, Peace Walker marks the final game in the collection to benefit from a doubled frame rate. Kojima already confirmed the same for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater -- and Metal Gear Solid 2, it turns out, always ran at sixty frames per second, even on the PlayStation 2.

We suppose that explains Raiden's ... uh ... smoothness.

Get up close and personal with close-quarters combat maneuvers in this gameplay from San Diego Comic-Con 2011!