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Konami Temporarily Removes Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 from Digital Stores

Konami announced on Sunday that it is temporarily removing Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and any collections that include those games from digital stores on Monday because the company is currently working on renewing the licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game. Konami plans to make the games available for purchase again in the future.

The company is temporarily removing the following:

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty HD Edition for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD Edition for PS3 and PS Vita
• Metal Gear Solid HD Edition for PS3
• Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for PS Vita and PlayStation Now
• Metal Gear Solid HD Edition: 2 & 3 for Xbox 360
• Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D for Nintendo 3DS
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance for PC via GOG.com
• Metal Gear Solid 2 HD for NVIDIA Shield TV
• Metal Gear Solid 3 HD for NVIDIA Shield TV

Most of the games in the Metal Gear Solid series follow Solid Snake, a special forces operative who slowly becomes involved in a global conspiracy. The first game in the series, released in 1998 on the PlayStation, sees him neutralizing a terrorist threat from a renegade special forces unit called Foxhound, who have taken hostages and seized control of a nuclear launch facility in Alaska.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty originally launched for PlayStation 2 in November 2001.

Kojima's last Metal Gear title with Konami, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, shipped for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC in September 2015. Konami sold more than six million copies of the game.

Metal Gear Survive is the first Metal Gear console game to be announced since Kojima's departure from Konami. The game launched for PS4, Xbox One, and PC in February 2017.

Sources: Konami, IGN (Matt Purslow)