Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is an amazing game. That is not something that I will attempt to dispute. The quality of the game itself is still high and that deserves praise. However, I disagree with the people rating this product for the quality of the game and not for the quality of this release.

This release is absolutely poor and not worth its asking price in any capacity. Upon purchase, you'll find that the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection releases have no options of any kind for PC players. No way to switch between windowed and full-screen (this feature will reportedly be added on a future update), no way to switch resolutions, no way to change audio settings, no way to change the size or aspect ratio of the screen, no way to change audio settings, no way to exit back to the menu while in-game, and so on. Even the most mediocre of remasters offer the bare minimum I have just listed here.

The excuse Konami has provided that the lack of quality of life for this release is due to their intent to preserve the original vision of director Hideo Kojima should not be trusted. Not just because they have chosen to port a release which itself has many differences from the original PS2 version of the game, from quality of life improvements to new bugs, but also because it is mainly an excuse to justify their decision to not make an attempt to natively port MGS2. It is my suspicion that Konami has used the Unity engine as a wrapper/launcher for a hidden emulator that emulates the code of the Xbox 360 release of the Metal Gear Solid 2 HD Collection version. This would certainly explain the lack of options for PC players, as it is baffling otherwise why even the most basic quality of life would be discarded in favor of such an out-dated presentation for 2023 standards.

If you already own MGS2, do not support this release. If you have not yet played MGS2, please do yourself the favor of researching alternate methods of playing the game which can offer better quality of life and superior presentation compared to this release. You may even be saving yourself some money.

an old co-worker of mine once tried to explain the story of this game to me while we were closing the store and I thought he was gonna kill me at the end of that shift

CAUTION: Does NOT work on Steam Deck (MGS 2 and 3)

Be the team responsible for this port:
1. Repackage a 12 year old remaster of a 22 year old PS2 game and somehow still bungle it up.
2. Wait for fans to release an unofficial fix for it, doing your job for you.
3. Release a series of patches over the next 2 months that keep breaking the fan fixes.
4. Continue to ignore your crappy port's biggest problems.

Jesus CHRIST, guys. If Kojima was in the office with the team responsible for this release, he would beat you with your own shoes. I'm convinced that if someone asked you to boil water, you'd still find a way to burn down the kitchen.

• Locked at 720p.
  
• "Mouse support" is just emulating the right analogue stick, so there's no mouse aiming (can't aim with the right stick in MGS2).
  
• Keyboard controls are nonsensical and can't be edited.
  
• Selected button prompts get reset to the default Xbox ones every time.
  
• The manuals are web pages that aren't even aware of the above option.
  
• It's locked at 1280x720.
  
• The sound quality sounds worse than the original or the HD Collection on PS3 / 360.
  
• The option to download the Japanese version takes you to a non-existent Steam page which stealthily adds it as a DLC, which you then have to notice to activate, since the game doesn't tell you about it.
  
• They advertised the game as only supporting 1080p, which is already bad enough, but it's actually only 720p.
  
• No windowed mode option, although it mistakenly opened in a window on first run, and the framerate was unlocked.
  
• No video or graphic settings whatsoever.
  
• IT'S LOCKED AT 1280x720.

March 2024 EDIT: The 1.5.0 patch REMOVED native controller support! The entire collection now relies on Steam's terrible API to translate controller input!

None of the above issues have been addressed since release, except that the DLC menu was hidden.

It is currently not the advertised 1080p resolution. it is just 720p, very dissapointing.

It is very sad to see a masterpiece being ported this poorly for such a price.

perfect if you got these
https://github.com/Lyall/MGSHDFix/releases
https://www.nexusmods.com/metalgearsolid2mc/mods/3
i can play the goat game on steam now

update : no more mods sorry

update 2 : more mods

Can't jack off in the lockers in Tank chapter. Review will change once I can masturbate again

EDIT: I can finally jack off again I was doing it wrong. Now it's the same masterpiece as it was on PS3

It took not even a full week for modders to fix EVERYTHING and make the Steam versions the definitive way to play the MGS series. MGS2 is my favorite MGS and one of the best games ever made PERIOD. Do yourself a favor and play it if you haven't already.
Thank you modders.. No... not you Konami.