Metal Gear Solid DLC Coming to Xbox Live?
Who says PlayStation 3 owners have all the fun? If Ripten's not smoking something we'd all like a hit of in any event, it looks like Metal Gear Solid may be coming to the Xbox 360 courtesy Xbox Live Arcade in the very near future. Which would also make it the first second Metal Gear running on Microsoft hardware (if we're not counting the fact that Microsoft Game Studios actually published the original MGS for the PC, i.e. the version no one remembers playing).
About the MGS/XBLA rumor, Ripten's Patrick Steen writes:
I expect you’re asking how we know, or who our source is. Lets just say a reliable individual tapped into our codec frequency after spying the game on a certain pre-release network. We shall say no more - nudge nudge, wink wink - except this; there are problems in bringing Kojima’s masterpiece to this new playing field.
Problems? I can't imagine what problems there'd be, especially if we're talking a port of the PC version, as opposed to something pseudo-bleem!-ified via PS emulation. Unless we really are talking the original PS version and the problem has to do with emulating Sony hardware, whether literally or legally, on Xbox 360 turf. Color me clueless either way, and treat this as hearsay until Microsoft says it all official-like.
In the meantime, I just picked up the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection to give Hideo Kojima's storied series a second pass while I wait for my belated review copy to arrive (darn you broken Konami manufacturing logistics). I'll pass along any insights that leap out, including mercilessly contemporaneous reactions to the game's infamous control scheme, which has always been pretty controversial, even with the people who totally worship these games.
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Metal Gear Solid 2 was on the first Xbox.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/adventure/metalgearsolid2substance/index.html?tag=result;title;0
actually...the first two metal gears (not solid) were on the MSX, a microsoft system in the 80's or so. its not gonna be the second time a metal gear was on an MS system, it would actually be the fourth