Once you have installed the base repack, you are not done. The beauty of this version is the modding community that surrounds it.
PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita (varies by region). Controls/menus follow platform standards.
Start installation
Click Install and wait. The progress bar may appear stuck—this is normal for repacks. METAL GEAR SOLID - HD COLLECTION -Gnarly Repacks-
After installation finishes
Depending on crack:
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For years, PC gamers have suffered. To play the canonical versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you had three awful choices: dust off a PS3, pray your Xbox 360’s disc drive still worked, or wrestle with the notoriously buggy, controller-mapping-nightmare that was the original 2003 PC port of MGS2 (which famously didn’t even include the skateboarding minigame). The 2023 Master Collection Vol. 1 was a step forward, but for purists, it still missed the mark, locking the best visual features behind specific launchers and lacking the sheer "compressiveness" of a true archivists’ release. Once you have installed the base repack, you are not done
Enter Gnarly Repacks.