Hideo Kojima’s stealthy classics Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 are the latest titles to join Microsoft’s ever-expanding list of backward-compatible games on Xbox One.
It’s been a distinctly Konami-flavoured few months for Xbox One backward compatibility, with the Silent Hill HD Collection and Zone of Enders HD Collection recently arriving on the console. And that continues with the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition, which originally launched digitally on Xbox 360 in 2012, and gathers together Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Unlike the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which released a year earlier, it doesn’t include Peace Walker and MSX2 titles Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
Both numbered entries in Kojima’s legendary series are, of course, stone-cold classics. Metal Gear Solid 2 released on PS2 in 2001. Eurogamer gave it 9/10, saying, “It doesn’t represent the pinnacle of gaming, but it does offer something truly unique and consistently innovative… Buy it. There won’t be another one of this calibre for several years”.
Source: Eurogamer Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 are now backward compatible on Xbox One