Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel: Sons of Liberty

Received the book on time and the quality was as stated. Good extra packaging to protect it. I greatly appreciate it and would do business with this seller again!

If you're not a video gamer you will still appreciate the amount of complexity of the plot of MGS 2 novel. And if you love the video game and want more from the franchise you won't be disappointed. It's Spy Espionoge and Sci-fi at it's best.

My son loved this book and started reading it as soon as he got it, which was Christmas day.

Hideo Kojima's Sons of Liberty is a beautiful and endearing story about finding your true identity and purpose in life and either following your life's chosen destiny or being brave enough to make your own. ...at least that's what one of the four people in the world who actually understands that game has told me. For most of us, Sons of Liberty is either a highlight or the downfall in the series. The unanticipated introduction of Raiden gained some less than glowing comments from fans but didn't seem to affect the reviews of it from the media which were generally positive. Either way, it's so convoluted and wrapped up in eccentricities that instead of asking `Who is this Raiden kid and when do we get Snake back?' we should have been trying to figure out who the hell was going to explain this massive pile of intricacy to us. This is where Raymond Benson's novelization of Sons of Liberty becomes handy. (Uh, I'm going to warn for spoilers just for the hell of it but seriously...the game is 8 years old.) Benson's adaptation, just as the game does, picks up about two years after the infamous events of Shadow Moses. Solid Snake, Otacon, and (loosely) Mei Ling have formed the NGO Philanthropy, an undecidedly respected organization focused on the elimination of the Metal Gear units that have been popping up like daisies due to the blueprints being mass produced and sold to anyone with enough money to buy them. Information Otacon receives from an interestingly initialed informant called E.E. leads to Solid Snake hitching a ride Ethan Hunt style off the George Washington Bridge onto an oil tanker apparently carrying a Metal Gear unit in its holds. In theory, the mission is simple: Get a few pictures of said Metal Gear unit that proves it exists and was developed by the U.S. Marines...then get the hell off the ship. In true MGS fashion though, it doesn't take things very long to get complicated and faster than you can say "Shalashaska", a bevy of Russian mercenaries overrun the ship. It's around this time the mentioned ally of Revolver Ocelot's from The Shadow Moses incident, Sergei Gurlukovich, shows up as their commander. This probably should have been the boys' first clue that something was off. But it isn't until Snake tranqs a pregnant Russian woman and has his picture taken by an Army cypher that they finally realize that things aren't going to go down quite the way they were hoping they would. Enter Revolver Ocelot who's been recently equipped with Liquid Snake's arm to replace the one stylishly hacked off by Gray Fox two years before. But what makes this a Kojima signature is the fact that in the presence of Snake, the limb activates, forcing Ocelot's personality to be suppressed and taken over by Liquid's. After serving a quick dish of betrayal to Gurlukovich, Ocelot--or maybe Liquid--hijacks RAY (the Marines' codenamed Metal Gear unit) and cuts himself out an escape route off the ship. Needless to say, the ship sinks and with Snake and

Raymond Benson wrote another novel of the Metal Gear Solid series. Yet again, a great book that is described with beautiful sensory images that the reader can easily picture in mind with various characters. When I read this book, the author put the ALMOST EXACT same dialogue from the game to the novel. This is the sequel to the first Metal Gear Solid. A new character is also introduced. A "rookie" some people call him. When he is in the story, a new genre is involved with the story: Romance. Along with a few themes that can lead to love drama. A new weapon prototype includes a new weapons technology that was invented secretly by a group of terrorists. Overall, great book.