METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 Puts Peace Walker Back In Reach
Peace Walker's Fulton recovery and Mother Base management sit directly upstream of the base-building loop the series kept after it, which is the part of the PSP original that still holds up inside a collection release.
Reporting from 1 source: Inside.
METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 includes METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER, the PSP title originally released on April 29, 2010. The game covers Big Boss's active years, with a 1974 story set in Costa Rica after what appears to be U.S. military intervention. Its Mother Base system let players send and train soldiers beyond Snake, and its Central America setting, called America's backyard, draws on Cold War history including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Peace Walker arrived on the PSP in 2010, when handheld hardware could already run 3D action games, and it carried a scenario set in Central America in 1974. The piece walks through what "America's backyard" means, from Cuba's pro-American government and Hemingway's El Floridita to the 1950s revolution, Batista's exile, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Twelve years after that crisis, the game has America doing what the Soviet Union once did. Its Mother Base system let defeated enemies be pulled in by Fulton recovery and assigned to medical, food service, development, and intelligence teams.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.