![]() ![]() ![]() Released just two years after the entirely voiceless Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid’s fully-voiced dialogue felt like it had come from another planet. I clearly wasn’t the only one left spellbound by Metal Gear Solid Kojima’s PS1 debut launched to rave reviews across the board. For ten-year-old Tom, this wasn’t just another video game – this was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. As voice actor David Hayter grumbled intensely about something called nanomachines and talked solemnly about ‘the battlefield’, I strained closer and closer to the grainy CRT screen, completely and utterly entranced. In Metal Gear Solid’s opening ten minutes, I was sneaking past heavily-armed guards and avoiding military helicopters, enthralled by the gravelly tones of Solid “I eat cigarettes for breakfast” Snake. The second I popped that scuffed disc into my chunky grey PlayStation, my perception of video games changed forever. READ MORE: The lost art of the video game manual.Swiftly convincing my parents to ignore that pesky 16+ age rating, I soon came home clutching a preowned copy of Metal Gear Solid. I had no idea what the hell was happening, but one thing was clear – I had to play this game. Suddenly, break time was dominated by kids impersonating cyborg ninjas, shouting nonsensical sentences about something called ‘Foxdie’, and diving dramatically to the ground in imaginary gunfights. Until one day, whispers of a strange Japanese PlayStation game reached my ears. Wandering around my primary school at break time, The Matrix was the talk of the tarmac, eliciting excitable playground-shaking screams from the kids lucky enough to have seen it. Hitting UK shelves the same year as The Matrix (1999), being nine years old, Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece initially eluded me. In fact, after formative years spent obsessing over Pokémon, pummelling my cousins in Tekken and bullying sheep as Spyro, I thought I’d seen everything games had to offer. This process will happen while in the MGSV:TDE application.Back in 2001, I was no stranger to video games. ![]() *Please note, when switching from MGSV:TPP to MGSV:GZ, the game will ask if you want to quit MGSV:TPP and launch MGSV:GZ. This may cause problems when playing online. While the original MGSV:TPP is still playable, the saved game data will be overwritten by MGSV:TDE. Once you have installed MGSV:TDE on your PlayStation®4 system and have imported your saved game data from the original MGSV:TPP, we recommend you only use the MGSV:TDE application to continue your Metal Gear journey.
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