Metal Gear Solid (GB) Reviews

"Metal Gear Solid" is a video game released for the Gameboy Color console in 2000 by Konami. It is loosely based on the popular video game of the same name released for the Playstation system. In the United States, the game received a rating of "E" by the ESRB panel which deemed it suitable for all ages. Despite ...  Read the complete review

Back in 1987... There was a game called Metal Gear. It was released on the MSX home computer. It was great, original, years ahead of it's time. A couple of years later, there was a sequel, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. This took the vg world by storm (in Japan). It was brilliant. About 8 years later, there was a third game released ...  Read the complete review

The name 'Metal Gear Solid' has been the buzzword around the playstation sinse its release, as it was one of the launch games and the game was an absolute classic from start to end. That is high praise from me as i am usually against playstation games. The game is currently very cheap to own on platenum for PS and is also released for ...  Read the complete review

Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima's vision of an IRBM-firing walking mechanoid which would be more than a match for anything pasty, bearded 'Robot Wars' contestants could ever come up with, is on the loose again and guess what the American government have done to stop it. Pre-emptive nuclear strike? Full ground invasion? Nope, they send one ...  Read the complete review

Metal Gear Solid ? those three words combined arguably equal the most hotly anticipated PlayStation game in the console's three-year existence. Created by veteran designer Hideo Kojima, it marks the continuation of a series that began its life on the MSX home computer, and, later, appeared on NES, the version with which most of us are ...  Read the complete review

'What!?' I hear you cry 'MGS on the Gameboy?'. Well, believe it or not, yes! Konami have managed to squeeze the whole of MGS onto the Gameboy, including 180 training missions (which have to be played twice to 100% the training)! The amount of play here is staggering, but that's not the only thing. The amount of fun is immense, ...  Read the complete review

What the heck was Konami thinking? They can't possibly shrink down Metal Gear Solid from the Playstation to the Gameboy! Well, Konami then had the ingenius idea of changing the storyline, weapons and items and characters. In doing so, Konami was able to start a new Metal Gear Solid for the cute little Game Boy Color! (Did I just say that?) ...  Read the complete review

It was said that it couldn't be done. To take a game with such graphic splendor and cinematics, and put it on the Gameboy. Well, they did it, and they left both those things on the PSX version. This game once again proves that it is the gameplay element that makes a game worth playing. The perfect example is the story. I think that ...  Read the complete review

Metal gear solid on the g b c is the small screen version of one of the best ever games, m g s on the p s x. You play the role of solid snake, who, with the help of only his radio attached to his ear, is set off to stop some terrorists from starting a nuclear war with the robot metal gear. As well as the excellent main game, there is also a huge ...  Read the complete review

Having played (and loved) the Playstation version of this game I thought “No way can it be any good on the humble Gameboy”. How wrong was I ? In the game you play Solid Snake a rock hard Rambo type who has to infiltrate a heavily guarded fortress. Instead of a 3D world you get a top down view, which works ...  Read the complete review

This game is a masterpiece. Some of you may be wondering how a 2D version of Metal Gear Solid can be made. Well, it had two (three, technically) prequels that were all 2D on 8-bit systems. Now you know, it seems pretty easy to port it. The game is more like the Playstation version than the old games, with a MGS Codec, item and weapon ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the best Gameboy Colour games to date. I have to admit that initially i was worried whether or not the Gameboy could do such a game justice but the game is easily as great as the PSX version. Despite the lack of 3D graphics Metal Gear Solid for the Gameboy still manages to reproduce the same amount of tension as its PSX ...  Read the complete review

The Gameboy has been getting a lot of unusual conversions of late, games like Tomb Raider and Rainbow 6 making their way to the platform. Anyone familiar with the Playstation game of Metal Gear Solid will probably be wondering how the game has transfered to the GBC. The answer is very well indeed. Essentially the developers have returned to the ...  Read the complete review