Modder oct0xor has been engaged on a mod so as to add a third-person digicam to Metallic Gear Strong 2, and now has lastly launched it in time for the twentieth anniversary of Metallic Gear Strong 2: Substance, the 2002 expanded re-release.
When the Metallic Gear sequence went 3D with Metallic Gear Strong, it initially saved an overhead digicam just like the earlier 2D video games. Although additions like first-person aiming mode modernized issues just a little, it wasn’t till Metallic Gear Strong 3’s expanded version, referred to as Subsistence, {that a} full 3D digicam was added. It is this digicam that oct0xor has modded into MGS2, which is why the mod’s referred to as The Substance Of Subsistence (S.O.S.) Mod (opens in new tab).
“The code to have a traditional third particular person digicam was by no means current within the recreation,” oct0xor writes, “and so as to implement it, I needed to reverse engineer and rewrite many issues within the recreation engine.” Apparently there are millions of traces of latest code added by the mod. If you wish to know extra concerning the problem of its creation, take a look at this dev diary video (opens in new tab).
To put in the mod, obtain launch.zip from github (opens in new tab) and unpack it to the bin folder in your Metallic Gear Strong 2 listing, then run solid_mods_loader.exe. You can allow and disable the third-person digicam everytime you need as you play.
Sadly, Metallic Gear Strong 2 shouldn’t be at present obtainable on the market on PC. Together with Metallic Gear Strong 3 it was delisted by Konami late in 2021 over points concerning the licenced footage in cutscenes, which included information footage of US president John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Disaster. Occasionally of the Metallic Gear sequence’ thirty fifth anniversary on July 13, Konami defined that it was working to get the video games relisted and mentioned, “We ask on your persistence as preparations are underway to make the quickly eliminated titles obtainable once more.” Appropriately sufficient relating to Metallic Gear, they’ve saved us ready.
