Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is a 1990 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. The second mainline installment in the Metal Gear series, it serves as a sequel to the original Metal Gear (1987). Set in 1999, a few years after the events of the original game, Solid Snake must infiltrate a heavily defended territory in Central Asia known as Zanzibar Land to rescue a kidnapped scientist and destroy the revised "Metal Gear D". The game significantly evolved the stealth-based game system of its predecessor, and uses a storyline dealing with themes such as the nature of warfare and nuclear proliferation. Metal Gear 2 was written and designed by series's creator Hideo Kojima, who conceived the game in response to Snake's Revenge (1990), a separately produced sequel that was being developed at the time for the NES specifically for the North American and European markets. Metal Gear 2 was released in Japan to positive critical reception, and retrospective reviews have labeled it as one of the best 8-bit games ever made. It was followed by a sequel, Metal Gear Solid, and was released worldwide for the PlayStation in 1998. Metal Gear 2 was re-released alongside the original Metal Gear in the Subsistence version of Metal Gear Solid 3 (2006) with a full English translation and other revisions, which was used for further re-releases on the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection.