Metal Gear Solid Master Collection will also include the two earliest games in the series

The appearance of Naked Snake (not to be confused with his clone descendants Solid Snake, Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, or his brainwashed doppelgänger Venom Snake) during the announcement of a remastered version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater undoubtedly qualifies as the biggest surprise of this week’s PlayStation Showcase event.

For those less than thrilled at the prospect of Konami remaking one of the most celebrated stealth action games of all time without the involvement of the series’ original creator, there is a silver lining. The company is also re-releasing the first three Metal Gear Solid games on PlayStation 5 later this year, along with two previous entries in the Metal Gear saga built for the NES: 1987’s Metal gear and 90s Metal Gear 2: fixed snake.

The title of the reissue, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1implies the possibility that later titles in the series such as Metal Gear Solid: Wearable Ops And Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker may also be released on modern consoles in the future. The PlayStation Store listing the collection states that it will contain the remastered ports of HD Collection Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty And Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eaterwhich were first released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011.

The Metal Gear Solid series has not received a new entry since 2018 Surviving Metal Gear. The last canonical entry in the series, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painwas released in 2015 and was the last to be directed by series creator Hideo Kojima, who left Konami to become an independent developer after the game’s release.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 is expected to release later this year on PlayStation 5.