Hideo Kojima, comfortable in his natural habitat (Twitter) provided details of two regional versions of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. In Japan, the collection does not include Peace Walker, but does have a download code for thpe first Metal Gear Solid. The “overseas version” (meaning the one we get) doesn’t include the download, but incorporates the HD version of Peace Walker.
In both regional variants, the HD version of Metal Gear Solid 3 is based on the “Subsistence” re-release, which means it has optional, user-controllable camera angles. That version also comes with the emulated MSX versions of Metal Gear 1 and 2, adding two more games to the collection!
Kojima also said that the Metal Gear Solid 2 HD release would be based on “subsistence,” by which he must have meant “Substance.” He wasn’t clear on whether the basis was the PS2 or Xbox version — a distinction that seems minor until you learn that the PS2 version had a skateboarding minigame that we need in HD. Finally, Kojima tweeted an image of the trophy icons for MGS2 and 3, which you can see after the break.
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