(UPDATE)Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection

  • Posted February 7th, 2008 at 10:12 EDT by
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For those of you who may have missed out on the Metal Gear saga, you’ll be pleasantly happy to know that Konami plans on releasing the Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection box set for the PlayStation 2 console. This is without a doubt a way to help boost even further interest into the future release of Metal Gear Solid 4 later this year.

Konami has announced that in this set you’ll be getting the original PlayStation Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Directors Cut), and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Directors Cut). These will be packaged together for the low price of $29.99. The artwork for the box will be done by MGS series artist, Yoji Shinkawa.

There has yet to be an official release date for this bundle set, however, big time retailer GameStop has it set for a mid-March release. This will give all of you newcomers to the gaming world a chance to see and experience what has made this franchise what it is today.

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UPDATE: It is now being reported from PALGN that Australia will more than likely not be receiving this collection of Metal Gear Solid games.  According to Atari, who distributes Konami games in Australia, "At this stage there are no plans to release the collection here".

It's looking like a bad day down under.

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  1. SilentHillSam | SilentHillSam

    • 5:00pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    awesome! i already got'em. but konami deserves more money for making playstation exclusives. thank you konami. cool that they release a PSone game in 2008. ridiculously cool!!! :D

  2. Deldwen | Deldwen1

    • 5:02pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    sexy

  3. gingo | gingo

    • 5:05pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    psn id: gingo... this is quite a plan if there is any chance of getting this in europe i will defo buy

  4. badz_ps3 | BAdz2363

    • 5:08pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    i have mgs2 and 3 (regular) but for $30 why the heck not?! even if  i ebay off 2 and 3 for 10 bucks total that means im looking at all 3 games for only 20 bucks!  

  5. Shin Asura | Rukia

    • 5:42pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    Was thinking of getting it until I saw PS2, my Japanese PS3 can't play it

  6. Gen.Penguin

    • 5:55pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    thank you! as a big MGS fan i unofortunately never got to play the original(wasn't interested in mgs at that age) and i think it is going to be the twin snakes version. because this was posted on N4G.com and they showed a screenshot from that game.

  7. swanky2167 | Sanguinary

    • 5:57pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    man, i just bought the original MGS for $12 at Buy Backs...oh well, i need subsistence still (doesn't it come packaged with the original MSX Metal Gear 1 and 2?). 

  8. bigbossakajack | BiggestBoss

    • 6:05pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    30,-? very nice, I've allready got all games but Iff they make mgs1 look a bit better I'd might purchase it

  9. Falanx13 | Falanx13

    • 6:19pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    sweet package, and a sweeter deal. I honestly only need the original MGS, so I hope they put that on the PSN around the same time.

  10. NightStalker

    • 6:35pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    wow I have been thinking that I need to play these games and Konami goes and answers my prayers. I will def. be picking this up when it's released.

  11. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 7:10pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    Now that is an awesome steal right there everyone. Hyping it up the ying yang.

  12. edward_moffet | edd

    • 7:16pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    i have all of them and im still getting ths AWESOME

  13. VEGAZ5

    • 7:16pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    i'm ashamed to say i missed out on the original metal gear but i have all the rest . i will be picking up this set for sure !!

  14. 1solidsnake | solid1snake67

    • 7:21pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    sweet!. 30 bucks is a decent price for those 3 games. i am buying it when it comes out. i've been wanting to get my hands on subsistance metal gear 2., o heck yeah. i'll go and pre-order  so i can get them all. i might keep it as a collection item though.

  15. IRONMAIDEN

    • 7:38pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    i have them all but im gonna buy it anyway lol

  16. sleepyzombie

    • 7:41pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    $30!!!!?!?!!??!?

    Are they nuts?!?!!?

  17. D3v1lwqer23

    • 7:49pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    yeah, so why arent we getting the twin snakes remake for the PS2?

  18. shaka | Shaka

    • 8:02pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    OM Freaking GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

    i already have all of those games, MGS is the best series in the history of gaming, cant wait for march baby i will replay everything before i get into MGS4 buahahahaha good plan.

  19. psn_frov | frov

    • 8:31pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    nice, gonna get it cause i lost the first one and the third one

  20. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 10:09pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    I have all these games already, but I will be getting this on day one! Thank you Kojima for making the greatest video game series on the greatest video gaming platform.

  21. funkinrussell | funkinrussell

    • 10:25pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    worth the $ even though i have them all.i want to play subsistence again. mine got 2 horrible  scratches and it would not boot.  thanks Kojima

  22. Battlebum | Maestro_

    • 10:28pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    this is great. i wasn't really into these kind of games when they came out so i don't have any of them. Im interested in them now. I'll buy it for sure

  23. GreyFox666 | GreyFox666

    • 11:27pm GMT - February 5th, 2008

    thak you Hideo... your GOD son...

  24. Jared

    • 12:40am GMT - February 6th, 2008

    I have been waiting for something like this for a very long time.  Two will be needed for me:  one to play and one to save as a collector's item.  :D

  25. SldSnake | sldsnake

    • 12:51am GMT - February 6th, 2008

    Man! and i was about to re-buy the original Metal Gear for the ps1 on ebay because mine was badly scratched!! "was a little kid didnt know how precious it was" but now with this news! 30$!! now i dont have to buy it for like 60$ just for part one! ! MAN! thankfully i found out! .........!Thanks konami!....

    psn I.D    -   sldsnake

  26. darksora | Rav_M

    • 5:50am GMT - February 6th, 2008

    awesome stuff. only own mgs2 (but completed mgs3) so if this makes its way to UK i'll definately pick it up for mgs1 plus the directors cut versions.

  27. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 1:46pm GMT - February 6th, 2008

    So this is one of the three Kojima projects to release this summer. (Ryan Payton announcement, remember?)

    This is great though, since I wasn't into the MGS series until now.  I'm glad Sony started bundling all these different series in 3-packs for $30. (DMC, MoH, RE)

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    Hopefully they take the time and make the original look better.

  28. hush404 | hush404

    • 4:39pm GMT - February 6th, 2008

    WOAH. I heard of this sucker back when it hit Japan... but damn. $30 for MGS 1, 2 and 3? That's cheaper than I can get MGS1 on ebay! Deff will be picking it up!

  29. 1solidsnake | solid1snake67

    • 11:36am GMT - February 7th, 2008

    as long as the essential collection comes to my gamestop that will be aweome. i'm surprised they didn't add  mgs3 snake eater to it. no not subsistance. the original gamebut, that's cool  i can't wait to get my hands on metal gear solid 2 susbsistance

  30. wolfhawk | WolfHawk

    • 12:31pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    Sweet, hey to all those people that complained about buying a launch PS3, well now you have another good reason, full backwards compatibility. My 60GB system has yet to fail on a PS2 game played in it.

  31. sdlewis1986 | sdlewis1986

    • 1:16pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    +1

  32. blachaze | blachaze213

    • 3:05pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    allredy have them all anyway but why dont we get twin snakes??    idiots

  33. Sevket_Erhat

    • 4:04pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    So what is this "Director's Cut" ???

  34. IIIKAGEIII | IIIKAGEIII

    • 4:29pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    its really hard to find these games in the shops too. i was lucky to pick up mgs2

  35. JMelillo57 | jmelillo57

    • 5:40pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    Nice now just get MSG4 out please.

  36. goldenman96 | goldenman96

    • 7:07pm GMT - February 7th, 2008

    nice never got a chance to check these games out i will defiantly buy this 30 dollars

  37. Phantasmn | PHANTASMN707

    • 4:12am GMT - February 8th, 2008

    If they're gonna re-re-release MGS3:Substance, then they should put the online servers back up for MGS3:S MGO for a little bit to at least hold people over until MGS4 MGO goes live. (MGO = Metal Gear Online)

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