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Metal Gear Acid

Metal Gear Acid is a turn-based collectable card game. It was the first game in the Metal Gear series for the PSP. A Java ME version for mobile phones was released by Glu Mobile in 2008 titled Metal Gear Acid…

73 16 December 2004

Metal Gear Acid is a card & board game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, released 16 December 2004 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Metal Gear Acid is

Metal Gear Acid is a card & board game game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and released in 2004. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear Acid is the 20th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. The next entry was Metal Gear Acid 2 in 2005. Its critic score of 73 is 8 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.

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How it was received

Metal Gear Acid holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Metal Gear Acid launched on 16 December 2004, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4 and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth.

Cheats and codes

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When did Metal Gear Acid come out?
Metal Gear Acid was released on 16 December 2004 for PlayStation Portable.

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