Collection essentials #489: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GC)

Metal Gear Solid had made a huge splash on the original PlayStation. Then, Metal Gear Solid 2 was a major early title for the PlayStation 2. And Xbox owners would receive a port of the game a year later. But aside from a spinoff Game Boy Color title, Nintendo was missing out on all this Metal Gear action. They wouldn’t be getting a port of 2 (the GameCube controller arguably doesn’t have enough buttons for it), but instead they wound up getting their own exclusive Metal Gear Solid game for the GameCube. The details don’t seem 100% clear on how this game was conceived and planned, but Nintendo helped make sure that Konami made a Metal Gear game for their GameCube. And since they were already busy working on the third Metal Gear Solid title, developer Silicon Knights would step in and do most of the work on this project. This turned out to be Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, which is basically Metal Gear Solid 1 reimagined with the graphical quality and gameplay elements of Metal Gear ...