This is the numbered Metal Gear Solid saga, Hideo Kojima's run of stealth games that treated the genre as a vehicle for sprawling, talkative storytelling. Metal Gear Solid (1998) brought the series into 3D and made sneaking past guards, rather than mowing them down, the whole point, wrapped in long cinematic cutscenes and fourth-wall-breaking surprises. The sequels grew only more ambitious in their plotting.
Snake Eater stepped back to a Cold War prequel about Solid Snake's mentor, Sons of Liberty pulled a structural bait-and-switch on its own audience, and Guns of the Patriots aimed to tie the tangled timeline together. The throughline is auteurship: dense, conspiratorial, frequently strange stories about war and identity, delivered through a stealth system that was genuinely innovative. A games-only saga as famous for its ideas as its gameplay.
The The Numbered Solid Saga franchise spans 4 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Metal Gear.
Games
Key people
- Hideo Kojima (Creator)