Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is an action-adventure stealth video game and is the third action-based Metal Gear title made specifically for the PSP. The gameplay consists of two primary modes: Mission and…

93 29 April 2010

Shooter Strategy Tactical Action Fantasy Historical Stealth

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a shooter developed by Kojima Productions, released 29 April 2010 on PlayStation Portable.

Verified 14 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a shooter game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2010. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake isolates himself from the United States and sets up home in Colombia. Here he creates Militaires Sans Frontières, a private military group that provides support for countries in need. But at the same time, an unknown army of well-equipped soldiers has taken over the defenseless country and brought along a nuclear warhead labeled Peace Walker to demonstrate their power. Naked Snake is asked by the government to save the country along with his Militaires Sans Frontières.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is the 39th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. It arrived a year after Metal Gear Solid Touch. The next entry was Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Collector's Edition in 2010. Its critic score of 93 is 12 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.

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How it was received

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 87, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker launched on 29 April 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter.

Cheats and codes

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