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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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action-adventure stealth video game released in 2004
Game data
Metacritic 84- Released
- 2004-11-17
- User rating
- 4.36 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PS Vita
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the prequel to the entire Metal Gear series. Most of the series' defining gameplay elements have been carried over and as before, Snake must use stealth and wits rather than brute force to infiltrate enemy zones and eliminate his major adversaries. Unlike the previous games, this installment takes place in a large outdoor jungle. Snake is able to use camouflage, climb trees, hide in tall grass or wear clothes that make him less noticeable.
- Released
- 2004
- Genres
- Shooter, Tactical, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid
- Developer
- Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
Key facts
- Developer
- Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
- Director
- Hideo Kojima
- Producer
- Hideo Kojima
- Designer
- Hideo Kojima
- Programmer
- Kazunobu Uehara
- Artist
- Yoji Shinkawa
- Writers
- Hideo Kojima Tomokazu Fukushima Shuyo Murata
- Composers
- Harry Gregson-Williams Norihiko Hibino
- Series
- Metal Gear
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2 Nintendo 3DS
- Release
- November 17, 2004 PlayStation 2 NA : November 17, 2004 JP : December 16, 2004 EU : March 4, 2005 AU : March 17, 2005 Subsistence PlayStation 2 JP : December 22, 2005 NA : March 14, 2006 EU : October 6, 2006 AU : October 13, 2006 Snake Eater 3D Nintendo 3DS NA : February 21, 2012 WW : March 8, 2012
- Genres
- Action-adventure , stealth
- Mode
- Single-player
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Encyclopedic overview
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It was released in late 2004 in North America and Japan, and in early 2005 in Europe and Australia. Written, produced and directed by Hideo Kojima, the game is the fifth mainline installment in the Metal Gear series and the first chronologically, serving as a prequel to the entire series. Set in 1964, 31 years before the events of the original Metal Gear, the story centers on the FOX operative codenamed Naked Snake as he attempts to rescue Russian rocket scientist Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, sabotage an experimental superweapon, and assassinate his defected former boss.
While previous games were set in a primarily urban environment, Snake Eater adopts a 1960s Soviet jungle setting, with the high-tech, near-future trappings of previous Metal Gear Solid games replaced with wilderness. While the environment has changed, the game's focus remains on stealth and infiltration, while retaining the series' self-referential, fourth-wall-breaking sense of humor. The story of Snake Eater is told through numerous cutscenes and radio conversations.
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