Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Video Game 1990)

Solid Snake has retired from FOX-HOUND, but is called back to active duty to infiltrate the heavily armed nation "Zanzibar Land" and rescue a kidnapped inventor.

Director:

Hideo Kojima

Writer:

Hideo Kojima (scenario)

Storyline

Solid Snake, now retired from Fox-Hound, returns in this sequel to Metal Gear. Dr. Kio Marv, the inventor of OILIX, was taken hostage. The new commander of Fox-Hound, Colonel Roy Campbell, calls Snake back to active duty to infiltrate Zanzibar and rescue Dr. Marv.

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | cult film | infiltration | second part

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Taglines:

Tactical Espionage Game

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Konami [jp] Konami [jp] (Mobile version)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

19 July 1990 (Japan)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Konami Corporation

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Another boss, the close-quarter assassination specialists known as Ultra Box, were named after synth-pop band Ultravox, one of Kojima's favorite bands.

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Crazy Credits

After the closing credits, there's an additional scene where Snake and Holly deliver the MSX cartridge to Campbell. The scene shows the MSX start-up screen with 01k VRAM (Kio Marv spelled backwards) written under the logo.

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Connections

Referenced in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

User Reviews

A fantastic sequel to a great series

"Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake" surpassed it's original successor in almost every way possible: it looked better, it played better, it sounded better, and most of all, it was a true sequel to a great series created by "Hideo Kojima". When I first heard that there was a true sequel to the original "Metal Gear" only released in Japan, I knew I had to play it, because here in America we got a bad sequel. I finally played "Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake" the year it came out in 1990 in Japan, I fell in love with the game, it was fun and exciting and wonderful when I first glazed eyes on it's amazing graphics for an old 8-bit game, it's truly unbelievable and it quickly became my favorite game, and it still is to this day followed by many others I will keep to myself at this time. If you played "Metal Gear Solid" or "Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of Liberty", you MUST play this awesome amazing sequel only released in Japan, find a rom or visit Ebay and look for it, whatever it takes you need to play this game to see how wonderful it really is, and it also has a very interesting plot. Simply put:"Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake" is a great game not played by many. Find it now! good luck and enjoy this awesome breathtaking sequel masterminded by it's creator, "Hideo Kojima".