When Does "Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes" (1998) Take Place?
"Metal Gear Solid" is a spy video game written by Hideo Kojima with Tomokazu Fukushima (then translated for English-speaking audiences by Jeremy Blaustein), designed for the PlayStation system, and released September 3rd, 1998.
It takes place on the fictional Metal Gear timeline in the year:
We know this because Solid Snake refers to the events in Zanzibarland from the previous game as being "6 years ago" and that game takes place in 1999 AD.
The time setting is unchanged.
2005 AD
We know this because Solid Snake refers to the events in Zanzibarland from the previous game as being "6 years ago" and that game takes place in 1999 AD.
1999 + 6 = 2005.
It is a chronologically late game in the Metal Gear universe and can be played at its timeline point or third [after "Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake" (1990)] as part of a retro release order experience or entirely separately.
This game was heavily remade and re-released March 9th, 2004 as "Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes" for the GameCube system with a tweaked script, a few new voice actors, and a dramatic change in graphics realism.
