Throughout final week’s PlayStation State of Play, a brand new Metallic Gear Stable assortment together with MGS 4 and the PS3 HD model of Peace Walker was introduced. It is nice information when you’ve been holding out for PC ports of those video games all these years, but it surely does not imply you possibly can anticipate the total expertise individuals initially acquired—Metallic Gear On-line, the multiplayer spinoff which got here bundled with MGS 4 again within the day, will not be included.
Yow will discover direct affirmation on Konami’s web site, which explicitly clarifies in a footnote that “Grasp Assortment Model of the Patriots doesn’t embody METAL GEAR ONLINE.”
It would not come as an enormous shock, as MGO’s servers shut down over a decade in the past. However all isn’t misplaced when you crave some PS3-era Metallic Gear motion with a buddy; the brand new assortment will embody co-op missions and a versus ops mode for Peace Walker. There isn’t any cross-play although, so hopefully your tactical espionage-minded associates are all on PC.
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I am largely on this assortment as a method to lastly play Metallic Gear Stable 4’s marketing campaign, so I am not too bummed, however I am positive there are quite a lot of MGO sickos shaking their fists on the heavens proper about now. As PC Gamer Australian editor Shaun Prescott famous in his information article on the introduced assortment, MGS 4 stays troublesome to emulate even all these years later, so a local port like that is the common PC gamer’s most suitable choice wanting scrounging round for a used console.
It has been a protracted wait for many of them, however an enormous variety of Metallic Gear video games have lastly discovered a house on PC, which is a reduction for the cussed and frugal amongst us who will not or cannot get a PlayStation however nonetheless crave some tactical espionage motion.
Metallic Gear Stable Grasp Assortment Vol. 2 will launch Aug. 27, 2025.