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Just now in E3, Konami announced Metal Gear Solid Collection HD: high definition collection remasters Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 and last year's PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, was released on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November. We sampled the Xbox 360 version of the Peace Walker on the floor of the E3 2011 show, see how it stacks up against the re-definition original PSP is very good.
E3 demo led us to our mission to recognize the start of PSP games. Maps and purposes looks exactly like the original game: Amanda trace, leader of the Sandinista rebel group, the Steal Thing (or vice versa) through a network of bite-size, guard-monitored areas in the Costa Rican jungle. High definition visuals, the main difference, of course. Although the original version of the handheld is far from ugly, 1080p picture remakes are easy on the eyes, has more texture detail and character models are less yellow. Charging time is shorter in the transition between one area and the next is another advantage of the Peace Walker came to a more powerful platform.

Peace Walker checks on the benefits of a second analog stick on the Xbox 360 controller (or the PS3 controller). You use the right stick for camera control now, instead of the face buttons on the right side of the PSP, which felt much more complicated. Other checks were less than impressive. It seems strange that triggers both the right and left handed to the windows menu item to open, with the objective mapped on the left bumper to bumper and proper shooting - shooting with the right trigger will certainly feel more natural.

For those immersed in the game clock and repeat the mission of the Peace Walker on the PSP, grow and hone their personal armies, Peace Walker HD Edition is a treat in store in the form of "transfarring," means an awkward name that you will be able to keep your game on both PS3 and PSP. Transfarring, a sort of cross-platform transfer of the store lets you progress to take on the PS3 version and then convert to a version of the PSP for portable play.


Although not in the E3 demo, multiplayer Peace Walker concerted action will the transition from the handheld to the home console versions. We have more on that when our hands and the Peace Walker HD Edition is generally on time, in anticipation of the launch of Metal Gear Solid Collection HD in November.