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Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy

Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, whose song "The Best is Yet to Come" was used for the Metal Gear Solid Soundtrack.


Dean Scofield

Dean Scofield (born January 12, 1957, Alhambra, California) is a voice actor who has provided the voice of the recurring "joke character" Johnny Sasaki in Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, but was not brought back for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Lost Planet

In July 2008, it was announced that David Hayter (voice of Solid/Naked Snake in the video game series Metal Gear Solid and screenwriter of films such as X-Men, X2: X-Men United and Watchmen) was in talks with Warner Bros. to write and direct a film adaptation of Lost Planet.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack

The soundtrack contains 44 tracks composed by: Akihiro Honda, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Nobuko Toda, Takahiro Izutani, Norihiko Hibino & Yoshitaka Suzuki.

"Evasion" is a remix of "Countdown to Disaster", which is composed by Norihiko Hibino, and is featured on Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty Soundtrack 2: The Other Side.

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection

Bonus content include motion comic adaptations of the Metal Gear Solid graphic novels by Kris Oprisko and Ashley Wood and a 100-page booklet that catalogs numerous promotional posters and brochures related to the games in the compilation.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Although The Twin Snakes was largely developed at Silicon Knights (mostly programming), its cut scenes and models were developed in-house at Konami and directed by Japanese film director Ryuhei Kitamura, reflecting his dynamic signature style, utilizing bullet-time photography and choreographed gunplay extensively.

The Twin Snakes features graphical improvements over the original, new cut scenes written and directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, and gameplay functions originally introduced in the sequel Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Mikey Kelley

Mikey has also been featured in a variety of video games including Halo 3, Tony Hawk's Underground, Full Spectrum Warrior, Viewtiful Joe, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Kinect Star Wars, as well as many others.

PlayStation Blog

At their 2010 event they had a meet and greet session with Metal Gear series creator, Hideo Kojima, who gave away free autographed bundles of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Ryōji Minagawa

Minagawa contributed an illustration for the Metal Gear Solid Premium Package edition released in Japan, which is featured in the Metal Gear Solid Classified booklet.

START III

START III plays a large role in the 1998 video game, Metal Gear Solid.

The Greatest Video Game Music

The Greatest Video Game Music, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, features classical orchestrations of video game themes including those from Super Mario Bros., Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Halo, World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and many more.

Video Game Orchestra

The orchestra, or rather a small ensemble of 28 musicians, performed the music from popular titles such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Legend of Mana, and Metal Gear Solid.


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