Metal Gear Solid Sneaks Onto PSN Today

Keeping this one short folks but great news just arrived, care of Konami. Metal Gear Solid, the classic PSOne title will today arrive on PlayStation Network.

So sayeth the press release:

Available Today, Hideo Kojima’s Groundbreaking Original That Created the Tactical-Espionage Action Genre

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today that the game that started it all – the original METAL GEAR SOLID – will launch on the PlayStation®Network for the SRP of $9.99 today. Hideo Kojima’s created groundbreaking classic — which was designed for the first PlayStation system — became a digital masterpiece by skillfully combining cinematic, fully voiced cut scenes with groundbreaking 3D gameplay to deliver an all-new kind of genre that became known as tactical-espionage action.

METAL GEAR SOLID takes place in the southern Alaska region around the Bering Sea. The player takes control of Solid Snake, a retired military soldier who is ordered to infiltrate a nuclear weapons facility to eliminate FOXHOUND, a genetically enhanced Special Forces unit that has threatened to launch its nuclear weapon if the government does not cooperate with their demands.

Here are the obligatory screens provided by the publisher themselves! Hopefully tonight you will be sneaking around Shadow Moses Island once more, and who knows – I might join you!

Source: Konami