Whether it's the hangar or the later oil rig sections with Raiden, anything showing the a wider scale playable area hammers performance on original Xbox 360 hardware. The last-gen system handle this well, and so there's no surprise that Xbox One and X both follow suit.Ĭutscenes in MGS2 are a different story, however. The opening tanker area with Snake is arguably the biggest stress-test you'll find in the game, with lots of geometry and rain effects. The end result is that the transition to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 resulted in a mostly locked frame-rate during the majority of the action. The task facing the developer was significantly more straightforward with MGS2 in that Kojima's team targeted 60Hz gameplay for the original PlayStation 2 release. Of course, I'm talking about performance, where Bluepoint Games' original work attempts to run both MGS2 and its much more challenging sequel at a locked 60fps. However, running on backwards compatibility takes a key advantage of the remasters and improves on it still further.
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In common with all standard Xbox 360 titles running on Xbox One, rendering resolution remains at the same 720p with 2x MSAA as Bluepoint's original remaster, and aside from additional 16x anisotropic filtering added at the system software level on Xbox One X, the overall presentation on all of the titles in the package is identical to their Xbox 360 counterparts. However, there is some good news: the 2011 remaster is now backwards compatible on Xbox One, and as things stand, this is easily the best way to play these brilliant games on modern hardware.Įxpectations do need to be managed, however. The classic MGS titles have remained untouched since 2011's excellent Metal Gear Solid HD collection, with no sign of any Xbox One or PlayStation 4 re-releases - despite the emergence of MGS cutscenes apparently running on the Fox Engine on a Japan-only pachinko machine, of all places.
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What’s important about the version included here is that it’s the one from Subsistence, which added the far more intuitive player-controlled cameras (though masochists - we mean purists - can still opt for the fixed camera approach if they want).If there's one game franchise crying out for the full current-gen remastering treatment, it's Metal Gear Solid. While this prequel wasn’t as gripping, either narratively or mechanically, as Liberty, it did add some interesting camouflage and eating mechanics to the already impressive sneaking action. Not only does it have a diverse cast of characters and scenarios, but it has an equally varied set of weapons, tools, and actions you can use to complete your mission.įaring better, the prequel Snake Eater has Solid Snake’s poppa, Big Boss, on a mission to a Russian jungle during the Cold War. Those who don’t mind or are willing to put in the time to get used to the controls will quickly understand why this is still one of the more inventive stealth action games ever made. Admittedly, anyone who hates these kinds of controls won’t be convinced otherwise by playing this game, in which Solid Snake’s routine recon mission goes awry, and his replacement, Raiden, has to clean up the resulting mess years later.
Of the three, the most dated is Liberty, because it employs an archaic fixed camera.
All three hold up well, in large part because they were ahead of their time when they first came out.
However if you’ve missed any of these games, even just one, or you really want to play any of them again, this is totally worth it.
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