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Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game developed by Konami and Silicon Knights for the Nintendo GameCube. It is a remake of the 1998 PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid, featuring improved graphics, new cinematics directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, and gameplay mechanics carried over from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
The cutscenes were directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. His initial pass aimed to match the original game's presentation, but Hideo Kojima asked him to redo the cinematics in his own action style. The reworked sequences made heavy use of bullet time effects inspired by The Matrix, which drew criticism from some reviewers.
The voice acting was re-recorded because the GameCube's higher audio quality revealed ambient noise in the original PlayStation recordings, which had been made without a sound-proof studio. David Hayter, the English voice of Solid Snake, persuaded Konami to bring back almost the entire original cast for the new sessions.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes was released on the 9th of March, 2004, in North America, and on the 11th of March, 2004, in Japan. European copies arrived several weeks later. The game had originally been planned for November 2003 before the date slipped for all regions.
The Premium Package, released exclusively in Japan, included the game, a platinum-colored GameCube console decorated with the FOXHOUND logo, and a 44-page book called Memorandum containing production notes, sketches, and photographs. It also included the Special Disc, which held an emulated version of the Family Computer edition of the original Metal Gear.
The Twin Snakes received an 85 out of 100 on Metacritic and 85.58% on GameRankings. Game Informer gave it 9.25 out of 10, IGN gave it 8.5 out of 10, and GameSpot rated it 8.2 out of 10. Critics praised the graphics and gameplay improvements, while GamePro noted a flagging frame rate and argued that the Sons of Liberty mechanics clashed with the original's unchanged level design, most acutely in the Revolver Ocelot boss fight.