El Segundo, Calif. – June 18, 2009 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today that the game that started it all – the original METAL GEAR SOLID – will launch on the PlayStation®Network for the SRP of $9.99 today. Hideo Kojima’s created groundbreaking classic — which was designed for the first PlayStation system — became a digital masterpiece by skillfully combining cinematic, fully voiced cut scenes with groundbreaking 3D gameplay to deliver an all-new kind of genre that became known as tactical-espionage action.
METAL GEAR SOLID takes place in the southern Alaska region around the Bering Sea. The player takes control of Solid Snake, a retired military soldier who is ordered to infiltrate a nuclear weapons facility to eliminate FOXHOUND, a genetically enhanced Special Forces unit that has threatened to launch its nuclear weapon if the government does not cooperate with their demands.