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Metal Gear Retrospective: Snake’s Punishment Begins – Kotaku Australia

The Metal Gear series remains one of the most ambitious creations in gaming — and one of the most memorable to this day.

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Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The games rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defence mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the games world. Neither are welcome, and if theyre caught, they will be destroyed.
Released in 1987 for the MSX2 home computer in Japan, Metal Gear helped lay the groundwork for the stealth genre. It created…

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