Metal Gear Solid: Official Mission Handbook (Authorized Official Strategy Guide)

Metal Gear Solid: Official Mission Handbook (Authorized Official Strategy Guide)

The video game event of the decade involves a deep cover operative on a deadly mission in a remote Alaskan military base, and now any Metal Gear Solid operative can complete their mission with the only Official Strategy Guide to the game. It this massive 170+ page book, you'll receive a complete walkthrough with official maps, massive training and item sections, a team interview with seven key members of the development team (including Hideo Kojima), intense VR Training routes, an art gallery and even a special sealed section with every game secret and end mission tactics. This is essential gear! "About 10 Metal Gear Solid-related books (guidebooks and more) have been published and sold in Japan. However, there there is not a single one that matches the excellence of the guidebook by Millennium. Namely, the taste (artistic sense) oozing from all pages is superb. This is the kind of book we have been waiting for! Each page is elaborately and finely laid out. The level of completion as a guidebook is extremely high. It even incorporates the essence and setting details of Alaska. Its composition as pure reading material is wonderful. And most important of all, it is visually very well polished and sophisticated, leaving us in the development team awe-stricken. As for screenshots, we can tell that the editors made sure they got what they really wanted to show. I could feel the deep love of the editors for Metal Gear Solid. Even the forklift and gun cameras in the game are given extensive explanations This is what a true guidebook should really do -- effectively supplement the game to follow up on details that could not be done in the game itself. Above all things, I am extremely touched that this "game" called Metal Gear Solid, created by a group of Japanese people, is very sincerely dealt with as a piece of art. I would like to express my utmost gratitude to the staff who have put together this wonderful guidebook." -- Hideo Kojima, creator and director of Metal Gear Solid Renowned author David S. J. Hodgson originally hails from Manchester, England. He has worked on numerous magazines in the United Kingdom, including the Official Nintendo Magazine, Computer & Video Games magazine and Sega Saturn Magazine before moving to the United States to work as a Senior Editor on GameFan magazine. In 1998, he helped develop Gamers Republic, a multi-format video games magazine, before heading up the strategy guide department of Millennium Publications. He is the author of numerous strategy guides, including the Official Turok Strategy Guide and The Official Metal Gear Solid Mission Handbook. He currently lives in Agoura, California.