Metal Gear Acid 2 details

By Ellie Gibson Published 3 October, 2005

More cards, modes, upgrades.

Shinta Nojiri, director of Metal Gear Acid 2 for the PSP, has revealed more details of what we can expect from the new instalment in the turn-based card battling series.

Speaking to Famitsu magazine, Nojiri said that there will be over 500 cards to play with in MGA2 - that's more than twice the number featured in the first game.

You'll now have the option to use points to upgrade your cards - for example, MGS3's Naked Snake card can be turned into a Big Boss card - and there's also a new Arena Mode where you can face off with bosses from other MGS games, including Revolver Ocelot. Beat 'em and you'll be rewarded with hard to find cards.

The game kicks off with Snake being taken prisoner by FBI agents, who offer him freedom if he successfully completes a mission to infiltrate a private military firm. Snake accepts, but soon realises things are a little more complicated than he first thought when he discovers that there's a new Metal Gear in existence...

As previously announced, MGA2 will come bundled with the unique 'Solid Eye' peripheral, which lets you see parts of the game in 3D. Turns out Solid Eye is also the name of the eyepatch Snake sports in the MGS4 trailer, don't you know.

According to Famitsu, MGA2 owners who've also bought Metal Gear Solid 3 are in for a treat. If you take pictures with the camera while your PS2 is linked up to the PSP with a USB cable, you can then look at them in 3D on your handheld - thanks, of course, to Solid Eye.

Metal Gear Acid 2 is out in the US this November, and Japan a month later. Fingers crossed for a European release before Christmas, but don't hold your breath.

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Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • myiagros #1 6 years ago

    definately importing in November. The first one dispite not being "Metal Gear", in its aproach, was great.

  • Cloudane #2 6 years ago

    Sounds rather interesting to me, but all the USB malarky with MGS3 to the PSP/MGA2 is a bit fussy - no doubt I will try it though.

    I actually enjoyed Metal Gear Ac!d, even though I did not understand a word and found the start a steep up-hill slog - yes, I had the JAP version of Ac!d - the game never felt too long or short as well.

    Can't wait!

  • Danj #3 6 years ago

    Actually I'm pretty sure the MGS3 connectivity is with Subsistence, not vanilla MGS3. And yeah I'll be importing this game from the US, if I can find the money...

  • Razzajazz #4 6 years ago

    I have to buy this! The first one was superb! I hope they carry the link-up features over to the PAL version. Europe usually misses out on cross-platform activity!

    /Goes to look for imported Animal Crossing and e-Reader in attic

  • Derblington #5 6 years ago

    I've got MGA but haven't really played it yet :(
    Edited by 1 at 03/10/05 @ 13:52

  • Furbs #6 6 years ago

    LOL same here...

  • sephy #7 6 years ago

    Can someone please explain why MGS usually gets released in teh States first, then japan and we have to wait 4 months for our copy?

  • Celeborn #8 6 years ago

    Because us European customers are so valued by Konami, they release it to the other markets as a kind of open beta test so that by the time it does arrive here everything is absolutely perfect

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #9 6 years ago

    That's a great way of looking at it, Celeborn..

    Also, if there's no changes to the european version, you can find the american version for pretty cheap on ebay, around the time of the european release..
    Edited by 1 at 04/10/05 @ 02:17

  • brombeer #10 6 years ago

    Still on mission 8 or so of MGA. And I have it for over a month now. Mmmm..I wonder why...