Despite much of the franchise being currently unavailable on modern platforms, the Metal Gear franchise has shipped over 59.5 million copies.
Every title helmed by the legendary designer features countless details which are still extraordinary to behold. Check out 15 of them here.
The medium has no shortage of intriguing, surprising, or even double-crossing characters masked as seemingly useless, and here are 10 of them.
How did we go from Metal Gear Solid dominating mindshare and delivering one masterpiece after another over a pretty long period of time, to it suddenly turning into a what is essentially a dead fran...
They're bound to make you go "I understood that reference" more than once.
Now a lot more people can be here just to suffer.
Looks simply amazing.
2015's Game of the Year edition now available.
Always good to get another look.
Includes Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain with all DLC.
Kept you waiting, huh?
Not every masterpiece is perfect.
The former is free on Xbox One and the latter on Xbox 360.
Kojima Productions' swan-song still carries some visual flaws from Ground Zeroes but looks great overall.
Those picking up The Phantom Pain will have access to previously unlocked skins.
It seems the series creator knew his fate well in advance.
Kojima Productions' action stealth prologue will be free on PS4 next month.
Kojima Productions builds a rocksteady, no-frills port for everyone.
A new patch adds beta version to help with glitches.
Konami confirms that the definitive specs will be available shortly after the game's release.