Metal Gear Solid Snak
In Metal Gear Solid, Snake is basically John McClane shoved into a skintight sneaking suit How the hell has it taken us this long to choose Snake’s PlayStation debut for our Classic Game treatment?! Truly, the OPM Goat Of Shame is burning holes into all of our faces – and has threatened to do so continuously for a good few months yet. All we can say is that the iconic stature of Metal Gear Solid almost made it too obvious a choice for these articles before now. Almost. Hideo Kojima’s espionage adventure isn’t just one of the best games to ever grace PlayStation, it’s one of the most influential titles in the history of the medium. It made stealth games newly relevant for the first time in a generation, and just as the world and the power of PS1 made Snake ‘Solid’, the bandana-sporting merc in turn transformed the landscape of 3D sneakers forever. Without Koj’s Alaska-set stealth classic, there would be no Splinter Cell, no Second Sight,...