Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance features the same ground breaking stealth-based action of its predecessor, with players guiding a series of characters through key terrorist situations. The new game includes five new 'Snake Tales' that complement the main objectives, with Solid Snake despatched on a series of stand alone missions.

Supplementing the twisting plot and new Snake Tales are over 200 new VR missions. Acting as tests of skill, these remove the game's central heroes from the front line and place them in a series of fiendish virtual reality environments where logic and reality can be altered to create the ultimate tests of endurance.

These missions have allowed Kojima-san and his team to further extend the stunning realism of the Metal Gear franchise's graphics, with huge guards, target ranges and seemingly insurmountable odds pushing the player's abilities to the very limit.