Overall Metal Gear Solid is a great game. To say it is awesome to have it available on a platform besides PlayStation 1, PSP and PS Vita is an understatement. But you are in for a little work to get this one to play properly. This game is pretty much a bare bones port of the original PC port from 2000. So that means you will get a lot of issues you might have had back then. Not the greatest port to say the least but we do have the luxury of 20 years worth of fan fixes. Right off the bat the game does not detect modern controllers. I found a quick and dirty way to get in and play is to get a keyboard controller remapping application. It essentially allows you to assign keyboard keys to a controller. There are some that even support ps4 controllers if you want to get that authentic PlayStation experience. Keep in mind if you run the game in GPU mode you receive minimal texture filtering geometry clipping and texture warping fixes however fonts and sprites look hazy and blurry. There are also oddities on the way it reproduces certain effects. Not to mention there is also a noticeable tinniness to the spoken dialogue track. I found running it in software mode alleviates a lot of the issues from GPU mode but you only have one resolution available, the games original. So if large pixely looking graphics don't bug you Metal Gear Solid runs pretty much like the PS1 in software mode minus an effect or two. Metal Gear Solid PC barebones without mods of some sort does not do the game and play experience justice. It is unfortunate the state of this port but that was public knowledge at this point. So yeah I strongly suggest you do some research into fan mods for this game. It will make a mediocre play experience into a truly great one.
