The Metal Gear video games consist of 17 different albums, totaling over 940 minutes of music within the 11 games. There were four different music labels used for the albums in different games. These include Sony Entertainment, Konami Digital Entertainment, Phantom Studios, Sumthing Else Music Works, and King Records (Japan). The most used record labels were Konami Digital Entertainment and King Records. Konami was used for Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Original Soundtrack, and the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. King Records was used for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Original Soundtrack, Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack, Metal Gear/ Solid Snake: Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Dis, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Original Soundtrack, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Soundtrack 2: The Other Side. Several different producers were used for different games. These include Konami, Masahiro Hinami, Noriakio Kamura, Norihiko Hibino, Tojima, Harry Gregson-Williams. Konami producing 6 out of the 11 Metal Gear games. The games used many different genres of music throughout the games. They are as follows: breakbeat, classical, drum and bass, electronic, hip hop, jazz, ambient, acoustic, Latin American, electronic rock, industrial metal, alternative metal, hard rock, power metal, neoclassical, romantic music, lounge, and rock and roll.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack to Konami's 1990 MSX2 video game Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. The original music was composed by the Konami Kukeiha Club and the CD was released on April 5, 1991.
The soundtrack was re-released on September 23, 1998 as part of the 2-CD bundle titled Konami MSX Super Best Antiques, which also included the Gofer no Yabou Episode 2 and Space Manbow albums.
Arranged music based on Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake were used for the VR Training disc in Metal Gear Solid: Integral (which was released in North America as Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions). Additionally, Integral features two hidden tunes based on Metal Gear 2 available via a secret codec frequency in the main game. One is an arranged version of the "Theme of Solid Snake", while the other is an arrangement of "Zanzibar Breeze." "Theme of Solid Snake" made an appearance in Nintendo's crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Shadow Moses Island stage.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake original soundtrack (disc 1)
Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack is the official soundtrack to Konami's 1998 stealth gameMetal Gear Solid. Most of the original music was composed and performed by the Konami Computer Entertainment (KCE) Sound Team Japan (comprising Takanari Ishiyama, Gigi Meroni, Kazuki Muraoka, Lee Jeon Myung and Hiroyuki Togo),[2] with the exception of the "Metal Gear Solid Main Theme", composed by TAPPY, and "The Best Is Yet to Come", composed by Rika Muranaka and performed by Aoife Ní Fhearraigh. The CD was released on September 23, 1998 – three weeks after the Japanese release of the game.
A total of three versions of the soundtrack were released, with the "Metal Gear Solid Control Mix" track missing from the earliest version. Limited print editions of the Japanese copy and the standard European copy have cardboard sleeves accompanied with the discs jewel case. The final edition of the Japanese print does not come with the cardboard sleeve.
Music played in-game has a synthetic feel with increased pace and introduction of strings during tense moments, with a looping style endemic to video games. Overtly cinematic music, with stronger orchestral and choral elements, appears in cutscenes. The soundtrack was released on September 23, 1998, under the King Records label.[3]
Metal Gear Solid original game soundtrack (disc 1)
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Metal Gear Solid Main Theme"
2:42
2.
"Introduction"
0:57
3.
"Discovery"
5:05
4.
"Cavern"
3:11
5.
"Intruder 1"
2:04
6.
"Encounter"
2:20
7.
"Intruder 2"
1:55
8.
"Warhead Storage"
3:39
9.
"Intruder 3"
2:55
10.
"Mantis Hymn"
2:56
11.
"Hind D"
1:58
12.
"Duel"
2:22
13.
"Enclosure"
2:14
14.
"Blast Furnace"
2:58
15.
"Colosseo"
1:53
16.
"REX's Lair"
3:05
17.
"Escape"
3:11
18.
"End Title / The Best Is Yet to Come"
5:46
19.
"VR Training"
2:37
20.
"Metal Gear Solid Main Theme" (1997 E3 edit)
5:23
21.
"Metal Gear Solid Control Mix" (mixed by Quadra)
6:53
"The Best Is Yet to Come"
"The Best Is Yet to Come" was written in Japanese by Rika Muranaka and translated into Irish by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh. The song was recorded at Beech Park Studio, Ireland, engineered by Philip Begley and produced by Muranaka.[4]
Metal Gear / Solid Snake: Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Disc (Japanese: 小島秀夫監督作品 音楽集 赤盤, Hepburn: Kojima Hideo Kantoku Sakuhin Ongakushu: Akaban, commonly shortened as Kojima Red) is a soundtrack album featuring remixed music based on the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. A companion album titled Black Disc (黒盤, Kuroban) was also released, which featured similarly remixed music based on Snatcher and Policenauts. Red Disc consists almost entirely of newly-remixed tracks, including two original tracks, plus three tracks recycled from the Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake original soundtrack album. The composers for Red Disc include Hikaru Nanase, Kanichiroo Kubo, Konami Kukeiha Club, Motoaki Furukawa and Yoshiyuki Itoo.
Metal Gear / Solid Snake: Music compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Disc (disc 1)
Most of the original music was composed and arranged by Harry Gregson-Williams, with the exceptions of "Metal Gear Solid Main Theme", composed by Tappi Iwase and arranged by Harry Gregson-Williams, "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday", written by Rika Muranaka and performed by the Felix Farrar Orchestra and (in the full version) Carla White, and "Fortune" and "Who Am I Really?", composed by Norihiko Hibino. "Opening Infiltration", "RAY Escapes", "The World Needs Only One Big Boss!" and "Arsenal Is Going to Take Off!" were co-composed by Gregson-Williams and Hibino.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Soundtrack 2: Other Side is the second official soundtrack to Konami's 2001 stealth gameMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. All of the original music was composed by Norihiko Hibino. The CD was released on January 26, 2002 – two months after the Japanese release of the game.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Soundtrack 2: The Other Side (disc 1)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance Limited Soundtrack Ultimate Sorter Edition is a soundtrack that came packaged with a special edition sorter of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. Music is composed by: Norihiko Hibino & TAPPY.
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
""Metal Gear Solid" main theme (document remix)"
2:14
2.
"Snake in VR Mission – Weapon"
1:57
3.
"Snake in VR Mission – Sneaking"
2:13
4.
"Raiden in VR Mission – Weapon"
2:29
5.
"Raiden in VR Mission – Sneaking"
2:31
6.
"VR Variety Mission"
1:59
7.
"Vs. Genola"
2:02
8.
"Tuxedo Snake"
1:58
9.
"Mission in the Dark – Sneaking"
1:44
10.
"Mission in the Dark – Action"
3:10
11.
"Alternate Mission – Photo Shoot"
2:14
12.
"MGS1 Snake in VR – Weapon"
1:56
13.
"MGS1 Snake in VR – Sneaking"
2:49
14.
""Metal Gear Solid" main theme (skateboarding remix)"
3:20
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Original Soundtrack
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Original Soundtrack
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album of Konami's PlayStation 2 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and was released by Japanese music label, Phantom, on December 17, 2004 under the catalog number KOLA-089/090. The soundtrack consists of two discs and features music from various artists and composers such as Harry Gregson-Williams, Norihiko Hibino, Cynthia Harrell, TAPPY, and Starsailor. The soundtrack also included a "Special Camouflage Key Disc" which allowed players who owned a copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for the PlayStation 2 to obtain additional camouflage uniforms for Naked Snake by selecting "Special Camouflage Key" under the menu titled "Special" once it's prompted to appear in the game.
"Underground Tunnel" uses a sample from the Phone Booth soundtrack
"Debriefing" uses a sample from the "Man on Fire" soundtrack.
"Healing Tracks" are actually written by Norihiko Hibino, who selected song titles and artist names as a parody of the music in the '60s.[15]
"Snake Eater" sans the vocals and "Battle in the Base" appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. Both of these tracks can be used alongside other classic Metal Gear Solid tracks as the background music for Solid Snake's Stage, "Shadow Moses Island".
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – The First Bite is a CD that was only released in Japan in November 2004. The CD includes promotional materials, such as songs, screensaver and a Snake Eater music video. Music is composed by Norihiko Hibino.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – The First Bite (disc 1)
Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2 Original Soundtrack is a double CD album released on December 21, 2005. The first disc includes music from Metal Gear Acid, composed by Akihiro Honda, Nobuko Toda and Shuichi Kobori. The second disc contains music from Metal Gear Acid 2, and is composed by Akihiro Honda, Hiroshi Tanabe, Nobuko Toda and Shuichi Kobori. The album comes with an 18-page booklet featuring track listings and artwork by Hiroshi Banno and Junko Kolke.
Track listing
Disc one (58:45)
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Metal Gear Acid"
0:52
2.
"Intermission"
0:57
3.
"Conspiracy"
1:49
4.
"Nekal Commercial"
0:07
5.
"On Alert"
0:59
6.
"Leone"
1:36
7.
"Briefing"
1:06
8.
"Elsie & Francis"
1:37
9.
"First Mission"
1:23
10.
"Undercover Action"
1:39
11.
"Control Office"
1:29
12.
"Egersis"
1:55
13.
"Minette"
1:07
14.
"Dream Land"
1:46
15.
"BRC"
1:29
16.
"Ritual of the Swarm"
1:32
17.
"Leone Forces"
1:37
18.
"Residential Quarters"
1:25
19.
"Power House"
1:51
20.
"Interval of Dark"
1:45
21.
"Niko2"
1:37
22.
"FAR"
1:29
23.
"La Clown"
1:53
24.
"Death of Swallowtail"
1:10
25.
"Frisson"
1:38
26.
"Metal Gear!?"
1:29
27.
"Vs. Metal Gear"
3:38
28.
"Alice"
1:33
29.
"Roger's Congession"
1:59
30.
"End Title"
3:42
31.
"MGS1 Pack"
0:23
32.
"MGS2 Pack"
0:29
33.
"MGS3 Pack"
0:34
34.
"Chronicle Pack"
0:32
35.
"Link Battle"
1:48
36.
"Link Battle Rush"
0:43
37.
"Sweeties"
0:40
38.
"Mission Start"
0:07
39.
"Mission Failed"
0:07
40.
"Mission Complete"
0:07
41.
"Metal Gear (Remix)"
2:00
42.
"Sound Effects (Bonus Track)"
3:03
Disc 2 (67:50)
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Metal Gear Acid 2"
1:23
2.
"Intermission"
1:05
3.
"VR Training"
1:34
4.
"Flight"
1:44
5.
"Touch & Go"
1:21
6.
"Willing to Hear Me Out Now?"
2:05
7.
"Opening Title"
1:30
8.
"StrateLogic Inc."
1:31
9.
"Control Section"
1:33
10.
"B.B."
1:15
11.
"Research Block"
2:04
12.
"Single Action"
0:59
13.
"Takiyama & Lucy"
1:38
14.
"Security Unit"
1:16
15.
"Test Subject Awakens"
0:41
16.
"Test Subject Burns"
1:54
17.
"Venus"
1:45
18.
"Playtime"
1:42
19.
"Seeking Takiyama"
1:17
20.
"The Essence of Vince"
1:51
21.
"Track Tracking"
1:20
22.
"Locomotive Motion"
1:00
23.
"Revenge of Koppelthorn"
1:21
24.
"Destruction"
1:29
25.
"Residential Area"
1:34
26.
"Memories"
1:19
27.
"Back-to-Back"
1:35
28.
"Metal Gear Prototype Factory"
1:31
29.
"Resurrection"
1:43
30.
"???"
1:35
31.
"Farewell, Vince"
1:50
32.
"Like a Flood"
1:35
33.
"Chaioth Ha Qadesh"
1:58
34.
"We Can Become One"
1:45
35.
"Lucy & Chaioth Ha Qadesh"
2:09
36.
"Hypocrisy"
0:53
37.
"Test Subjects Duality"
2:18
38.
"The Great Escape"
1:29
39.
"End Title"
4:19
40.
"See That, Snake?"
1:33
41.
"My Love"
1:08
42.
"Information Fanfare"
0:06
43.
"Opening Title (Remix)"
2:09
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, released for Sony's PlayStation Portable. The soundtrack contains 44 tracks composed by: Akihiro Honda, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Nobuko Toda, Takahiro Izutani, Norihiko Hibino & Yoshitaka Suzuki. The soundtrack was released on December 20, 2006.
Track listing
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack
"Evasion" is a remix of "Countdown to Disaster", which is composed by Norihiko Hibino, and is featured on Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty Soundtrack 2: The Other Side.
Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection is a compilation album released for the video game series Metal Gear on July 18, 2007. The album contains songs from various games in the series, as well as a new song titled "Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —", a medley spanning the whole series. The album was produced by Norihiko Hibino, who also composed three of the album's songs and co-arranged two tracks.
Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection (disc 1)
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Metal Gear 20 Years History – Past, Present, Future —" (instrumental)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the video game of the same name, composed primarily by Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi, and Harry Gregson-Williams. The official soundtrack was released on May 28, 2008 by Konami Digital Entertainment under the catalog number GFCA-98/9. A soundtrack album was also packaged with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Limited Edition, but featured fewer songs.
While only fifteen minutes of music from the GEM Impact team (Yoshitaka Suzuki, Takahiro Izutani, and Norihiko Hibino) was featured on the official soundtrack, Norihiko Hibino later confirmed in an interview that the team in fact provided close to 90 minutes of music for the game's cutscenes.[21]
The album packaged with the Limited Edition release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is not the complete soundtrack. It possesses only track numbers 1–3, 5, 9–11, 13, 16, and 19 of CD1 and numbers 1, 10, 12, and 15–17 of CD2 (all of which are songs written by Harry Gregson-Williams), with none of the in-game tracks.
Track listing
CD 1
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack – CD 1
No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length
1.
"Old Snake"
Harry Gregson-Williams
3:52
2.
"Love Theme"
Music orchestrated by Nobuko Toda Words by Hideo Kojima Performed by Jackie Presti
7:07
3.
"Gekko"
Harry Gregson-Williams
2:53
4.
"Haven Troopers"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
3:40
5.
"BB Corps"
Harry Gregson-Williams
3:43
6.
"Drebin 893"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
3:29
7.
"Vista Mansion"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
1:32
8.
"Laughing Octopus"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
2:19
9.
"Breakthrough"
Harry Gregson-Williams
3:09
10.
"Endless Pain"
Harry Gregson-Williams
2:46
11.
"White Blood"
Harry Gregson-Williams
2:49
12.
"Call Me Hal"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
3:01
13.
"Midnight Shadow"
Harry Gregson-Williams
2:58
14.
"Paradise Lost"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
4:13
15.
"Great Escape"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
2:14
16.
"Desperate Chase"
Harry Gregson-Williams
2:57
17.
"Raging Raven"
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
2:34
18.
"Confrontation"
Yoshitaka Suzuki
3:10
19.
"Mobs Alive"
Harry Gregson-Williams
3:24
20.
"Violent Ceasefire"
Yoshitaka Suzuki
2:08
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack – CD 2
"Heavens Divide / Koi no Yokushiryoku" Released: April 7, 2010
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album of Konami's PlayStation Portable video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, primarily composed by Kojima Productions' Kazuma Jinnouchi and Nobuko Toda, while Akihiro Honda provides the orchestral theme and the theme songs, "Heavens Divide" (performed in English by Donna Burke) and "Koi no Yokushiryoku (Love Deterrence)" (performed in Japanese by Nana Mizuki). GEM Impact's Norihiko Hibino, Yoshitaka Suzuki and Takahiro Izutani as well as Soundelux Design Music Group's Todd Haberman and Jeremy Soule also provide compositions to the soundtrack.[22]
The game also features music from other Metal Gear games, such as Portable Ops's "Calling to The Night", which can be played in the game's Walkman. The Carpenters ballad "Sing" is sung by Cindy Asada on a taped recording and by the Boss AI as Peace Walker sinks under Lago Cocibolca.
Metal Gear 25th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection is a compilation album celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear franchise, released on August 22, 2012. The album was revealed on KONAMISTYLE, Konami's webstore, and was released on August 22, 2012 (although it was originally targeting a July 25, 2012 release).[23]
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – Vocal Tracks is the first official soundtrack used in the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
The game's score was composed by Jamie Christopherson,[26] with additional music by Graeme Cornies, Brian Pickett, James Chapple, and David Kelly, and directed by Naoto Tanaka. As a result of the game being focused on action rather than stealth like the previous Metal Gear games, the music has a different style. Director Kenji Saito proposed the idea of heavy and fast music featuring lyrics to Kojima Productions. When the studio accepted Saito's idea, the two developers started working together to make the music.[27] Christopherson also contributed by writing thirteen vocal songs which includes electronic music.[28] The soundtrack features vocals by artists including John Bush, Tyson Yen, Free Dominguez, Jason C. Miller and Jimmy Gnecco with contributions by Logan Mader, former member of Machine Head, Electronic Rock Musicians/Remixers The Maniac Agenda, and Ferry Corsten. A soundtrack featuring themes from the game was featured in the limited edition.[29] Another soundtrack, titled Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Vocal Tracks, featuring 29 tracks, was released on February 20, 2013.[30]
The soundtrack was produced by Harry Gregson-Williams, making it his fourth Metal Gear title. However, unlike previous titles, his involvement during the composing process was minimal, with him ultimately only composing two tracks for Ground Zeroes. In July 2015, Rika Muranaka told Fragged Nation in an interview that over 30 commissioned songs were never used, thus playing part in Konami's budget concerns over the Metal Gear Solid V project.[31]
In an interview with lead composer Ludvig Forssell, it was revealed that there were over eight different versions of Sins of the Father made just for the trailer, on top of the various previous renditions. Forssell himself provided the vocals during development. The song supposedly is a metaphor not only for The Phantom Pain, but the entire Metal Gear Saga: "For this game we have a couple of keywords: race and revenge, and… unfortunately I cannot at this point tell you everything, but there’s a lot of metaphors in the lyrics that have to do with the game, and the whole Metal Gear Saga, pretty much." Forssell said.[32]
Recording took place in Los Angeles, Nashville and Santa Barbara.[32]
A second volume of the game's score was released exclusively on iTunes on December 24, 2015, titled "Metal Gear Solid V Extended Soundtrack." The album contains over 5 hours and 45 minutes of previously unreleased music. The extended soundtrack also contains music from "Ground Zeroes".
Release
The album was released on CD, as well as iTunes and Amazon.com. However, because of licensing issues, the soundtracks' licensed songs are missing from the digital versions. Along with it, a separate album titled Metal Gear Vocal Tracks was released on the same day.[33] It featured the tracks Sins of the Father and Quiet's Theme from The Phantom Pain, as well as various new renditions of tracks from previous games redone in the style of The Phantom Pain. These were done by series veteran Donna Burke.[33]
Metal Gear Solid is a 1998 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. It was directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, and follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, which Kojima also worked on. It was unveiled at the 1996 Tokyo Game Show and then demonstrated at trade shows including the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo; its Japanese release was originally planned for late 1997, before being delayed to 1998.
Solid Snake is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami, appearing as the main protagonist in many of the games of the series. He is depicted as a former Green Beret and highly skilled special operations soldier engaged in solo stealth and espionage missions who is often tasked with destroying models of the bipedal nuclear weapon-armed mecha known as Metal Gear. Controlled by the player, he must act alone, supported via radio by commanding officers and specialists. While his first appearances in the original Metal Gear games were references to Hollywood films, the Metal Gear Solid series has given a consistent design by artist Yoji Shinkawa alongside an established personality while also exploring his relationship with his mentor and father.
Metal Gear is a franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami, the first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often takes control of a special forces operative, who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon, "Metal Gear", a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is a 1990 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2 computer platform. It serves as a sequel to the MSX2 version of the original Metal Gear, written and designed by series's creator Hideo Kojima, who conceived the game in response to Snake's Revenge, a separately-produced sequel that was being developed at the time for the NES specifically for the North American and European markets. The MSX2 version of Solid Snake was only released in Japan, although Kojima would later direct another sequel titled Metal Gear Solid, which was released worldwide for the PlayStation in 1998 to critical acclaim. This later led to Solid Snake being re-released alongside the original Metal Gear as additional content in the Subsistence version of Metal Gear Solid 3 for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. It was also included in the HD remastered ports of Metal Gear Solid 3 released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox 360, and was given a standalone re-release in Japan as a downloadable game for mobile phones and the Wii Virtual Console.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a 2001 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. Originally released on November 13, it is the fourth Metal Gear game produced by Hideo Kojima, the seventh overall game in the series and is a sequel to Metal Gear Solid (1998). An expanded edition, titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, was released the following year for Xbox and Windows in addition to the PlayStation 2. A remastered version of the game, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition, was later included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita. The HD Edition of the game was included in the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 compilation for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, which was released on October 24, 2023.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a 2004 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It was released in late 2004 in North America and Japan, and in early 2005 in Europe and Australia. It was the fifth Metal Gear game written and directed by Hideo Kojima and serves as a prequel to the entire Metal Gear series. An expanded edition, titled Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, was released in Japan in late 2005, then in North America, Europe and Australia in 2006. A remastered version of the game, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - HD Edition, was later included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita, while a reworked version, titled Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2012. The HD Edition of the game was included on the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 compilation for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on October 24, 2023. The same year, Konami announced a remake, entitled Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, set to release for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in 2024.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a 2004 action-adventure stealth video game published by Konami, who co-developed with Silicon Knights, for the GameCube. Released in March, the game is a remake of Metal Gear Solid, originally developed by Konami for the PlayStation in 1998.
Raiden, real name Jack, is a character and one of the protagonists of Konami's Metal Gear series of action-adventure stealth video games. Created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa, Raiden was introduced in the series as the main player character of the 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In Metal Gear Solid 2, he appears to be a member of the U.S. special operations unit FOXHOUND and is participating in his first mission against terrorists. Despite coming across as a young rookie, he is later revealed to have been a child soldier in his native Liberia. Raiden also appears as a supporting character in the 2008 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, in which he is assisting the series' main protagonist Solid Snake in his fight against Revolver Ocelot's forces. He is also the main character of the 2013 game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, in which he is dealing with his past and his present life as a combatant who faces enemies from private military companies.
Norihiko Hibino is a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a 2008 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami for the PlayStation 3. It is the sixth Metal Gear game directed by Hideo Kojima. Set five years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the story centers around a prematurely aged Solid Snake, now known as Old Snake, as he goes on one last mission to assassinate his nemesis Liquid Snake, who now inhabits the body of his former henchman Revolver Ocelot under the guise of Liquid Ocelot, before he takes control of the Sons of the Patriots, an A.I. system that controls the activities of PMCs worldwide. The game was released on June 12, 2008.
The Metal Gear franchise features a large number of characters created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa. Its setting features several soldiers with supernatural powers provided by scientific advancements.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, officially abbreviated MPO, is a 2006 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation Portable. The game was directed by Masahiro Yamamoto and written by Gakuto Mikumo, with series creator Hideo Kojima acting as producer.
Rika Muranaka is a Japanese composer and music producer renowned for her songs in Konami’s Metal Gear video game series.
GEM Impact is an audio production studio founded by game composer and saxophonist Norihiko Hibino in 2005. It is located in Tokyo, Japan, and employs a number of composers, producers, and artists. Hibino's fluency in English has allowed him to take the GEM Impact brand to a worldwide platform, which is the basis for the studio's motto: "From Japan to worldwide."
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Konami. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in February 2013, Windows and OS X in January and September 2014, and Nvidia Shield TV in January 2016. It is a spin-off in the Metal Gear series, set four years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. It features returning Metal Gear character Raiden as he confronts a private military company that intends to destabilize peaceful nations for profit. The gameplay focuses on fighting enemies using a sword and other weapons to perform combos and counterattacks. Through the use of "Blade Mode", Raiden can dismember enemies in slow motion and steal health items from their bodies. The series' usual stealth elements are also optional, serving as a means to avoid combat. Two downloadable content chapters were also released set before the games' beginning centered around Raiden's enemies.
Mineshi Kimura is a Japanese video game designer currently employed by Kojima Productions. He has worked on every console title in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series and made his directorial debut with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Kimura was the director of the original prequel version of the game, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, before it was cancelled and turned into a sequel to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami. Directed, written, and designed by Hideo Kojima, it is the ninth installment in the Metal Gear franchise, following Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, a stand-alone prologue released the previous year. Set in 1984, nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, the story follows mercenary leader Punished "Venom" Snake as he ventures into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and the Angola–Zaire border region to exact revenge on those who destroyed his forces and came close to killing him during the climax of Ground Zeroes.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection is a video game compilation published by Konami. The compilation features ports of titles in the Metal Gear franchise of stealth games, released in commemoration of the series' 35th anniversary.
"Snake Eater" is the theme song for the 2004 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, written by Norihiko Hibino and performed by Cynthia Harrell. The song is used within the game's opening sequence, as well as a sequence in which the player climbs a long ladder near the end of the game. Originally composed before the game's development as a substitute track, the song was praised by director Hideo Kojima and the final version was performed by a live orchestra.
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