Metal Gear Solid 2, the 2001 action game from creative visionary Hideo Kojima, has finally released a proper third-person camera mod, shortly after it was announced that the project would be borrowed from the remastered release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Yes, this means that you can play a kind of hybrid between MGS2 and 3 right now, since the mod was made public.
Developed by Boris Larin, game modder and security researcher, the third person MGS2 mod is finally out after it was recently unveiled. Borrowing the idea from the remastered version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, the Substance of Subsistence project replaces the top-down hidden camera with a more action-oriented and player-controlled approach, allowing you to immerse yourself in the world of Big Shell as a whole. New World.
Along with this announcement, Larin also reiterated how Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 were removed from online stores due to their use of historical materials (and are still unavailable), offering to help resolve the issue.
“Konami, if license renewal is not possible and you need technical assistance, I will be happy to help remove/replace the problematic content. I will even do it for free so more people can enjoy the game (with my mod)."
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance of Subsistence took about two months to develop, and a seemingly small change to the camera required much more code to be accounted for in the future.
“I wanted to have a camera that works exactly like MGS3, but this game was never released for PC, so I also had to reverse engineer the code for the PS2 and PS Vita versions, which is more difficult,” Larin recently told PCGamesN. .
“Also, on rare occasions, developers release their games with debug symbols that contain function names and other information. This helps a lot with reverse engineering, and I've spent time searching for this information in various releases of MGS games. Unfortunately, the debug symbols were never included. However, the MGS fans motivated me to keep working and I worked on it on weekends and in my spare time during the summer."
You'll need a legal copy of Metal Gear Solid 2 on PC to play this mod, so if you haven't purchased it in the past, you're sadly out of luck until Konami hopefully lists the game on online stores. You can find the mod at Github.
