Metal Gear is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The original MSX versions (in Japanese and English) were released on June 1987, with a notoriously compromised Famicom/NES port (without the direction of Kojima) released later during the same year. Metal Gear is the first title in the Metal Gear series.
Metal Gear tells the story of Solid Snake's first mission, secretly infiltrating the military fortress Outer Heaven, seeking missing FOXHOUND agent Grey Fox and information on the mysterious "Metal Gear."
The graphics are superb - the game is at the top of the heap of this genre for its superb modeling and rendering of dark, interior scenes (there are some exterior scenes as well, but most of the game takes place inside the tanker or the plant).
The idea of the game is clearly to involve you in a conspiracy that grows in size and importance as the game progresses.
As the game wraps up the major characters take the opportunity to proclaim their philosophies on personal values, the digital revolution, the nature of truth, the responsibility of parents, and a variety of other topics.
If a game designer can create dissonance, get the player to reflect on why they are experiencing it, and focus that reflection back into core mechanics of the game, he or she has just accomplished something that only videogames can do.
MetalGear Solid and MetalGear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty both took place in the present, and drew most of their inspiration from contemporary Hollywood action epics like The Rock and Pearl Harbor.
MetalGear Solid was about a soldier who realized his enemies were not evil, but people who were exploited by selfish politicians.
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