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PC Gamer
Wes Fenlon

The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is packed with bonuses, but the barebones ports offer little that PC emulators don't already do better

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The news that the upcoming Metal Gear Master Collection wouldn't support mouse and keyboard on PC was a clue—and a warning—that Konami was not aiming for a top-to-bottom remaster of its most beloved series. After playing a not-quite-final version of this upcoming re-release at Konami's Los Angeles offices last week, I'd say "collection" really is the operative word here: this is the equivalent of a vinyl album box set packed with new liner notes, little-heard demo tracks and many other extras, but without a recording engineer giving the original analog recordings a new mix.

Konami remastered these games a decade ago, and has apparently decided that treatment was good enough.

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