Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

The Twin Snakes features graphical improvements over the original, new cutscenes written and directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, and gameplay functions originally introduced in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty…

82 9 March 2004

Adventure Shooter Tactical Action Stealth

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is an adventure developed by Silicon Knights, released 9 March 2004 on Nintendo GameCube.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is an adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and released in 2004. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game developed by Konami and Silicon Knights and published by Konami for the GameCube. It is a remake of 1998's Metal Gear Solid.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is the 16th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. The next entry was Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - Premium Package in 2004. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly 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 Solid: The Twin Snakes holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 97 votes.

What it launched against

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes launched on 9 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.

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