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Metal Gear Saga Vol. 1
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Developer(s)Kojima Productions
Publisher(s)Konami
Designer(s)Hideo Kojima (producer, writer, director), Sadaaki Kaneyoshi (co-director)
ReleaseMarch, 2006 (NA)

Metal Gear Saga Vol. 1 is a documentary DVD that was released as a bonus in North America to those who pre-ordered Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. It was made available in early March as a pre-order incentive (around two weeks previous to Subsistence's release) from most major gaming retailers. It is a Kojima Productions project and is presented via voiceover by Jack N. Merluzzi.

It consists of one disc with approximatly 30 minutes of game footage, with interviews and commentary from series director Hideo Kojima. Kojima talks about his feelings on the United States port of Metal Gear, his reasons for creating games that resound with topics that are of real importance (such as Nuclear Proliferation and Cloning), and the genesis of the series.

Near the end of the documentary, following up information presented on Sons of Liberty, Kojima states that he plans to wrap up all the loose ends from Metal Gear Solid 2 in Metal Gear Solid 4. These include, but are not limited to:

Kojima has also stated that this will be end of the Metal Gear series. Effectively summing up the two trilogies, the Big Boss trilogy (Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear, and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake), and the Solid Snake trilogy (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Metal Gear Solid 4). However, it is noteworthy to point out that Kojima stated that he would be finished with Metal Gear related projects after both Metal Gear Solid 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3.

The layout of the documentary starts with Metal Gear Solid 3, and continues in chronological order through the rest of the games, finishing with Metal Gear Solid 2. Effectively covering the general story line of each of the five released games. The only entry with very little information is Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, presumably because previous to the upcoming release of Subsistence, it has never seen a North American release.

Extras on the disc consist of two trailers for Metal Gear Solid 4 (from E3 2005 and the Tokyo Game Show 2005), three trailers for Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (E3 2005, Gamers Conference 2005, and Tokyo Game Show 2005), and two trailers for Metal Gear Acid 2 (E3 2005 and Tokyo Game Show 2005).

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