Snake Eater is the best. It was a big departure from 2 and made for a very fun and adventurous game. MGS2 plot was lesser if you asked me.
Remember though mgs2 was first showed off in 2000 though you are right they made that game even the cut scenes when we had playstation ones.
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Just nuts 25 years ago we had waves in games with windows that can be destroyed now 400 million gets you concord or a ubisoft game that can not handle destroying a fruit or you die looking at water that has less movement than a puddle.
For the time that game was just nuts on every front.
Ouf, I really liked Phantom Pain too.
I got old footage and that behind the scenes book that was tossed out even a first print strat you should see the game before the konami cuts. The mp was going to be groundbreaking for the time
Basically they ported over and had working peace walker coop and the building system but they moved the system to land so you were making your own version of zanzabar/outer haven the idea was for players to invade like metal gear 1/2 plot snake infiltrates like we have now but you would be playing on there version of that map at the end fight there version of metal gear.
That is why the metal gear you make is just tossed aside it was suppose to have a bigger role of course you would as big boss get notified of the invasion and fight back like the og games.
Like peace walker mgs 5 had the system with rpg like soldier stats this would have also played a role to makes the maps more changeling and setup mini boss battles
But it was all scrapped the system was pushed out as is.