Metal Gear Solid 4 Remaster Is Leaving Online Multiplayer In The Past

Konami is bringing 2008 PlayStation 3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to modern platforms, but it will not include the game’s Metal Gear Online modes. The omission wasn’t mentioned during the reveal during the PlayStation State of Play last year; Konami confirmed it on the official web page for the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.

2: “METAL GEAR SOLID 4: Guns of the Patriots – Master Collection Version of the Patriots does not include METAL GEAR ONLINE.” Metal Gear Solid Online offered everything from stealth deathmatch and capture missions to bombing runs and sneak-offs. While Call of Duty was popularizing rapid respawns as players fought through meat grinder choke points, Metal Gear’s riff on online multiplayer offered options for much slower and more deliberate tactical gameplay.

It would have been cool to see some form of MGSO return with the newest remaster collection, but it’s not a complete shock that Konami is forgoing it given all of the work that resurrecting it likely would have required.

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