Metal Gear Solid: Ranking The Series From Worst To Best

7. Metal Gear & Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

I'm grouping these two together as honestly, time hasn't been kind to the original MSX Metal Gears.

From extremely strict (yet completely applicable to the time) checkpointing to level designs that you'll tire of within minutes, these original games stand up more as archival museum pieces, showing you the earliest seeds of stealth game design that Kojima would later build on to truly cement his legacy.

Both games tell the tale of Solid Snake going up against Big Boss, the second having the best setup for the Darth Vader "I am your father"-moment that's later been built on exponentially in the other games, yet when it comes to actually having fun going through them, that's where 1980s game design will swiftly remind you just how far we've come since.