Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 is a package that brought the more retro entries from the Metal Gear series into a modern setting, hopefully opening them up to more players.
With Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater on the horizon, and a release date still set for 2024, going back and reliving the classics sets you up both in terms of story and the graphical leap between the old and the new.
However, while Master Collection Vol. 1 included Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake from before the 2000s, alongside Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, there are more of the franchise’s games that could see the Collection treatment.
Enter Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2, the much rumored follow up to Vol. 1 that has now been officially announced from Konami.
This news comes from the second episode of Konami’s Metal Gear Production Hotline series which primarily focused on Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, but some questions slipped through on other topics.
Series producer Noriaki Okamura explicitly stated that the studio is “making a Volume 2, that much is for sure” but is also “worried about how Volume 1 had a pretty rough launch”.
There’s no mistaking that Vol. 1 did have issues when it first released with full screen issues and in-game slow down plaguing some players, so it’s not a surprise Okamura wants to make things smoother in the next outing.
It’s not just the technical stuff that needs to be ironed out though as it appears the studio hasn’t even decided on which games to include.
Okamura goes on to say that “most of the titles released after those [included in Vol.1] don’t have a pre-existing HD port we could use”, making the challenge harder.
The later games are also “really big titles” which have their own “set of issues”, again making Vol. 2 a trickier development process.
With the likes of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots still only officially being available to be played on the PS3 16 years later, this could be one of the titles introduced in Vol. 2.
It would make the most sense continuity-wise too since it is the direct sequel to the original Snake Eater.
There are other titles such as Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance which takes the series in a completely different direction so it will be interesting to see if a game like this makes the cut.
When Konami does make the decision on what games will be included, an announcement will be made.
