Uncharted 3 game manual
Released just two years after the entirely voiceless Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid’s fully-voiced dialogue felt like it had come from another planet. I clearly wasn’t the only one left spellbound by Metal Gear Solid Kojima’s PS1 debut launched to rave reviews across the board. For ten-year-old Tom, this wasn’t just another video game – this was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. As voice actor David Hayter grumbled intensely about something called nanomachines and talked solemnly about ‘the battlefield’, I strained closer and closer to the grainy CRT screen, completely and utterly entranced. In Metal Gear Solid’s opening ten minutes, I was sneaking past heavily-armed guards and avoiding military helicopters, enthralled by the gravelly tones of Solid “I eat cigarettes for breakfast” Snake. The second I popped that scuffed disc into my chunky grey PlayStation, my perception of video games changed forever.