Design Lesson 101 - Metal Gear

[’Design Lesson 101′ is a regular column by Raven game designer Manveer Heir. The challenge is to play a game from start to completion - and learn something about game design in the process. This week we take a look at Konami’s PS2 port of the original Metal Gear]
Being once a PC gaming zealot, I missed a number of console games during my youth. After the Sega Genesis, I didn’t own another console until a few years after the original Xbox was launched. As a result, there have been a number of big franchises and games I’ve missed out on, and I’ve been slowly trying to catch up on them.
One such franchise is Konami’s Metal Gear series. With Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots having been recently released for the PS3, I decided it was high time I checked out the Metal Gear series, starting at the […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Manveer Heir) and software by Elliott Back