Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (2023 Ver.): Opening & Prologue

This sequel to the original Metal Gear is more special than it may let itself on. It originally wasn't going to exist until Hideo Kojima discovered that Konami of America made their own NES-only sequel to his game called Snake's Revenge.
This motivated Kojima to make a TRUE Metal Gear sequel. One that would add even more significant mechanics and plot points in the series, truly setting the stage for how it would be going forward AND being an hidden important pillar to how video games could express themselves going forward.
Like with my playthrough of Metal Gear, this is from the re-release of the game put into Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, which was then re-re-released thanks to 2011's HD Collection, 2013's Legacy Collection, and 2023's Master Collection Vol. 1. This re-release features redrawn character portraits and a brand new English translation, as the game was originally never released outside of Japan.
I publish this video on July 20th, 2024. Happy 34th Anniversary to Metal Gear 2!
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The game has an excellent (and long) opening sequence that is mainly to show of the next big Metal Gear weapon that Solid Snake was tasked to destroy. If you don't press anything, it will transition into its story synopsis, and they will keep looping back-and-forth between each other until you DO hit Start to the Title Screen.
This 1990 game takes place in the late 1990s. The world was at peace from the threat of war. However, some were disgusted by this peace...
In the Middle East, in Zanzibar Land, a new military dictatorship was forming there. It was a mix of the USSR, China, and the Middle East, itself. They brought the entire world back into nuclear danger raiding nuclear weapons disposal sites and taking what they could in order to become the world's one and only nuclear power. With this power, more of this land's neighbors were also under siege.
On top of this, the world's oil supply was also rapidly drying out, threatening the world with a massive energy shortage. A Czech doctor known as Kio Marv was summoned to create an oil alternative called OILIX, but then he was then kidnapped by Zanzibar Land agents, all on a bid for complete world domination through his OILIX invention.
Solid Snake's next mission? To put a stop to this!

[@MegamanNG]

You got my attention now. This is going to be fun.
Fun fact: I don't know if you know this but this game wouldn't exist had it not been for Kojima talking with a developer who did the US exclusive sequel, Snake's Revenge. The rest as they say is history.

[@Carls493]

Oh... I wrote something like that right in this video's description already!

[@RikiRaccoon]

2:40 is the best part.

[@meridiantelekoms]

Heavily influenced by Madox-01 anime opening.

[@synthgal1090]

I just wish the new portraits were animated like in the OG game.

[@luisvazquez5041]

I'm 45 years old and I've been saying for literally decades that this is the game Konami should be making a remake of, specially now that retro is in the thing, not that reskin crap they're doing with snake eater, you wanna talk real prequel, this is it, and it would actually feel like a new game not like a cheap remaster