{"id":836563,"date":"2025-12-11T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1851474122"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:07:44","slug":"18-cool-things-metal-gear-solid-2-doesnt-outright-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/18-cool-things-metal-gear-solid-2-doesnt-outright-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Cool Things Metal Gear Solid 2 Doesn\u2019t Outright Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/18-cool-things-metal-gear-solid-2-doesnt-outright-tell-you.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and its follow-up expanded release, Substance, released on the PS2 all the way back in the early 2000s, dramatically expanding the gameplay systems of Metal Gear Solid and opening the narrative up to wild and unexpected twists and turns. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/metal-gear-solid-2-dog-tags-aiming-mgs2-1851474122\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/metal-gear-solid-2-dog-tags-aiming-mgs2-1851474122\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and its follow-up expanded release, Substance, released on the PS2 all the way back in the early 2000s, dramatically expanding the gameplay systems of Metal Gear Solid and opening the narrative up to wild and unexpected twists and turns. 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