Running the Xbox 360 HD Collection on a Series X console gives us improved anti-aliasing, plus forced texture filtering via back-compat support. Still it begs the question: how far off the mark is Switch from hitting 60fps on a game that's fundamentally over 20 years old?

Little weird about MG and the other pre mgs titles, but emulation being all that it is, understandable. Being stuck at 720p with zero anti-aliasing - fan-made mods aside - it's the version of the Master Collection that's in most dire need of attention from Konami. A more expansive remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is on its way, but for now we have the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, which makes the first three classics playable on modern hardware once more. Xbox, Xbox Series X|S, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies and are used under license from Microsoft. Your impression of Anakin, the Jedi and the Force will not be the same as what we oldies had back in the day.This product entitles you to download both the digital PS4™ version and the digital PS5® version of this game. The trip down memory lane is a reminder of why the three titles are a lock in any top 50 list of the greatest games ever made, but the digital packaging that brings them back can leave much to be desired. And to sweeten the deal, there's the MSX2 releases of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, while both NES Metal Gears make a rare appearance too for a series collection. Meanwhile the Playstation 2 duo - MGS2 and 3 - use code from the 2011 Bluepoint HD Collection versions for Xbox 360 and PS3. All of the bonus features you'd want out of a special release are there, but they're arranged in such a way that it's sometimes difficult to locate things — and it's always messy.

This 30fps cap on Switch has a domino effect on the game's motion blur effect, too, causing more notable banding behind camera movement. What you're actually getting is five separate apps on the PS5 home screen rather than a single, comprehensive bundle.In my opinion, when it comes to releases of old games the score should reflect the value of collection rather than the games itself; does it do enough to polish and modernise the games? There's something to be said for having all these classics in one convenient package for today's consoles and PC. The digital packaging surrounding the three classics doesn't quite feel like the labour of love it should do, but once you sink into the PS1 original, Sons of Liberty, or Snake Eater, it's abundantly clear there's still nothing quite like Metal Gear Solid. The only downside perhaps is that the Master Collection doesn't tie everything together with a single front-end.

Today then, I'm honing in on the pitfalls present on PS5, Series X, Switch and PC, which certainly give us enough issues to talk on. Oddly enough, there are flashes of uncapped 60fps gameplay in MGS2 on Switch - in opening lockers or doors - despite the 30fps cap being fixed 99 per cent of the time. Here again we have a fixed 720p rendering of both games with no settings menu, and therefore no way to adjust basic video settings like AA, rendering resolution, aspect ratios or output resolution. Meanwhile, modder Sergeanur has devised a fix to force both MGS2 and 3 to run at higher resolutions, even going up to 4K.

I played MGS1 again a few years ago and actually felt like it held up extremely well to play personally.

The Japanese company is on a mission to regain the fans it lost after abandoning the hardcore gaming space, and turning nostalgia into dollars was always going to be the first thing it did. Hardware clock speeds are simulated too, meaning we get an authentic 30fps cap with hard drops to 20fps and under, normally in the first-person view. Booting up the PC version of MGS2 and MGS3 in the Master Collection provides perhaps the biggest shock of all. Download of this product is subject to the PlayStation Network Terms of Service and our Software Usage Terms plus any specific additional conditions applying to this product.This simply requires copying a few files to each game's install directory, amd then editing the provided .