{"rewrite":{"id":"r_6358f4fb6adcde644a98099c","clusterId":"c_cd7e61b15f7e438625f43195","slug":"metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-2-puts-peace-walker-back-in-reach","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 Puts Peace Walker Back In Reach","summary":"METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 includes METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER, the PSP title originally released on April 29, 2010. The game covers Big Boss's active years, with a 1974 story set in Costa Rica after what appears to be U.S. military intervention. Its Mother Base system let players send and train soldiers beyond Snake, and its Central America setting, called America's backyard, draws on Cold War history including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.","whyItMatters":"Peace Walker's Fulton recovery and Mother Base management sit directly upstream of the base-building loop the series kept after it, which is the part of the PSP original that still holds up inside a collection release.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003ePeace Walker arrived on the PSP in 2010, when handheld hardware could already run 3D action games, and it carried a scenario set in Central America in 1974. The piece walks through what \u0026#34;America\u0026#39;s backyard\u0026#34; means, from Cuba\u0026#39;s pro-American government and Hemingway\u0026#39;s El Floridita to the 1950s revolution, Batista\u0026#39;s exile, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Twelve years after that crisis, the game has America doing what the Soviet Union once did. Its Mother Base system let defeated enemies be pulled in by Fulton recovery and assigned to medical, food service, development, and intelligence teams.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Peace Walker's Mother Base let you recruit and train soldiers outside Snake's missions. MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 puts that Cold War management loop in front of players who only know the series as stealth set-pieces.","twitterPost":"Peace Walker's Mother Base ran a soldier-training loop separate from Snake. MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 asks whether that Cold War management holds up.","threadsPost":"Peace Walker's Costa Rica chapter is set in 1974, after what reads as U.S. military intervention, and its Mother Base let you recruit and train soldiers beyond Snake. MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 brings that management loop to players who know the series mainly for stealth.","newsletterBlurb":"METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 includes METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER, the PSP game from April 29, 2010. Its 1974 scenario places Big Boss in Costa Rica amid what looks like U.S. military intervention, with a Cold War backdrop that reaches from the Cuban revolution to the 1962 missile crisis. The Mother Base system and Fulton recovery are the parts of the game that still read as the series' future.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Inside\",\"url\":\"https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2026/09/27/188334.html\",\"title\":\"The Struggle Unfolds in \\\"America's Backyard\\\" - Why You Should Play METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER Now\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4646,"outputTokens":646,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791226332,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T18:49:09.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T18:51:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T18:51:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_cd7e61b15f7e438625f43195","canonicalTitle":"「アメリカの裏庭」で繰り広げられる闘争が舞台ー『METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER』を今だからこそプレイしよう！","representativeArticleId":"a_5f583f352aaeb2a7b274ca7c","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker\",\"Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2\"],\"studios\":[\"Kojima Productions\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"other\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-27T08:00:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-27T08:00:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T18:51:08.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Inside","url":"https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2026/09/27/188334.html","title":"「アメリカの裏庭」で繰り広げられる闘争が舞台ー『METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER』を今だからこそプレイしよう！"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker","Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2"],"studios":["Kojima Productions"],"people":[],"type":"other","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}