‘Metal Gear Solid 2’ mod adds a third-person camera to Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece

Twenty years in the past this month, Konami launched Metallic Gear Stable 2: Substance, an expanded reissue of MGS2: Sons of Liberty. If you happen to’ve been on the lookout for an excuse to revisit one of many , now could be the proper time. Over the weekend, modder oct0xor launched , a mod that provides a third-person digicam to Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece.

If it’s been some time because you performed MGS2, you could have forgotten the sport employed an overhead digicam that was a holdover from Metallic Gear, Metallic Gear 2: Stable Snake and Metallic Gear Stable. It wasn’t till 2006’s Metallic Gear Stable 3: Subsistence, the expanded rerelease of Snake Eater, that Hideo Kojima and Konami carried out a correct third-person digicam. That little bit of historical past can also be the place the mod’s identify comes from, with The Substance of Subsistence referring to the expanded editions of every sport.

Including a brand new perspective to MGS2 was no simple activity. “The code to have a traditional third-person digicam was by no means current within the sport, and with the intention to implement it, I needed to reverse engineer and rewrite many issues within the sport engine,” oct0xor informed . You may study extra concerning the work that was concerned in a oct0xor shared just a few months again.

Yow will discover directions on easy methods to set up the Substance of Subsistence on . The tough half is discovering a duplicate of the sport for PC. Konami  from GOG and different digital storefronts over a “momentary” licensing situation in 2021. In July, the corporate mentioned it was nonetheless engaged on resolving the dispute however didn’t present a timeline for when the video games can be accessible to buy once more.