This section lists a lot of the little things you might have missed while playing Metal Gear Solid 2 the first time through. They are all available to see during your first game if you have a keen eye.
Title Screen Titillation
While you're starting at the title screen and Snake's red mug, you can manipulate the backround's position and color by moving the Right Analog Stick. Press [L2] and a gun shot will sound.
Codec Craziness
While watching and Codec conversation, move the Right and Left Analog Sticks and the characters' faces will move. Press the [R1] or [R2] button while Snake or Raiden is listening to someone, and you can hear their thoughts. Some of the guys' secret attitudes toward the other characters are quite funny!
Camera Surveillance
Equip the Scope, the Camera, or the Digital Camera and watch soldiers from a distance. Press the Action Button (Triangle) and something strange but usefull happens; if you have collected that soldier's Dog Tags, his name will be displayed. This helps determine which guards remain to be captured.
Different Olga Cinemas
Depending on which side of the port Navigational Deck you defeat Olga Gurlukovich during the "Tanker" episode, the cinema afterwards changes slightly. If you defeat her on the left side of the area, she is seen hanging over the rail in the cinema. Defeat her on the right side, and she is slumped against an open crate. All of the camera angles are changed accordingly.
Cinema Controls
During any of the cinemas depicting real-time events in the game, press the [R1] button to zoom in on the scene. Then move the Right Analog Stick to move the camera. This is a great way to examine the fantastic amount of detail in the character modeling and backround textures.
Calisthenics
Either character can improve the level of his Grip Gauge by doing chin-ups from a rail. To do this, hand over the rail and press [L2] and [R2] simultaneously to exercise. Do 100 chin-ups, and the Grip Gauge will increase in level. The gauge can reach Level 3 by doing 200 more chin-ups.
Perverted Troopers
Leave open one of the lockers with a pinup on Deck-A of the Tanker. If soldiers come into the room on a "clearing" mission, they will stop and gawk at the pretty lady. We don't want to repeat the noises they make...
Tanker Shortcuts
The are four shortcuts we know of. At the beginning of the game, on the Aft Deck, instead of going to the "port" side to enter the ship, go to the "starboard" side, climb up the stairs (where the guard is patrolling) and enter through the door. You skip two rooms.
Use First Person View at the top of the Engine Room, and you'll notice a wire that extends from one side of the room to the other. Leap over the back rail and shimmy onto the wire. It helps if you have a leveled-up Grip Gauge!
When sneaking into the cargo holds, look for hatches at the back of each room. There is a hatch that Snake can climb into at the back of Hold No.1. Crawl through the vent into Hold No.2, and look for another hatch on the other side of the projectors. Crawl through this vent, and you'll reach Hold No.3 with no problems! Also, look for wires and rails that span the upper levels of the holds...
Photo Evidence
During the "Tanker" episode, use the camera to take pictures of things like the pinups in lockers, Olga sleeping, the muscular chest on the outside of the locker, and the Vulcan Raven action figure. You know you have a worthy shot when Snake makes a sound or says somthing. Play through the "Tanker" chapter without restarting the game, and when you reach Hold No.3, tranmit your photos to Otacon. His reactions to these kinds of photos are very amusing.
Seagull Splatter
If you look up in the sky in First Person View and a bird flies overhead, droppings will land right on the camera!
Shave, Snake!
At the beginning of the "Plant" chapter, hop over the rail of the pool and shimmy over to the area that contains the deep sea diving suits. Jump over the rail into the area and collect the Shaver. When Raiden meets Pliskin (Snake), he will tell him to use it. Not only is Snake's reaction amusing, but it will change his appearance in later cinemas as well.
Parcel Travel
Hop onto the conveyor on the east side of the Strut E Parcel Room and equip any Cardboard box. You can ride the conveyor belt around the Big Shell. The box you equip determines where you are transported. The box marked "The Orange" takes you to Strut C, and the Zone of the Enders box takes you to the small room below where the Digital Camera is located. This is a good way to get the camera earlier in the game. Try using the other boxes and see where you end up!
Flashback Photos
In one of the flashback cinemas during the "Plant" episode, you will see the photos you took during the "Tanker" episode. Also, if you threw any guards overboard or knocked them over a railing, photos of this will be shown as well.
Hidden Books
There are five Books hidden above a locker on the west side of the Shell 1 Core's B2 level. Punch and kick the locker untill the door falls off, and the Books will fall from atop the locker!
"Top of the locker... Top of the locker..."
Nature Calls
Move around the Strut L Perimeter undetected, and a guard will start to pee off the side of the building. If you look up in First Person View, you can see Raiden is getting sprinkled. If you fire a warning shot upward at him, the guard will stop for a moment. When he decides the coast is clear, he goes right back to business.
Very Easy... Too Easy
In Very Easy Difficulty, you only have to access the Node once. All areas will appear on the Soliton Radar automatically for the rest of the game.
Steaming Stillman
When Stillman hides in the pantry, knock on the door or try to open the door. He responds each time. If you do this eight times, his reactions becomes quite amusing.
Fatman Fun
During the Fatman boss fight, watch for him to become stationary. Stop and watch him a First Person View. When Fatman is having fun with the seagulls, if one of them lands on his collar, it will peck at his head. Also, when Fatman is skating, it only takes one shot at his inline skates to knock him down.
Birdie Talk
The parrot in the Shell 1 Core's B2 Computer Room is fun to mess around with. If you fire bullets at it at spray it with the Coolant at the bird, it will imitate one of the guard's voices. If any of them are nearby, they will be instantly alerted! If two enemy soldiers stop and have a conversation in the upper portion of the room, wait untill they are finished. Then go back to the parrot and view it in First Person. It will repeat their conversation, which reveals clues about where to find hidden dirty books!
Easter Island Statues
There are four Easter Island MOAI statues that decorate various areas in the game. Use First Person View in every area to searcb for them.
Floating Debris
In the underwater areas of the Shell 2 Core, Filtration Chamber 1, swim to the last skylight at the south end of the west corridor and surface. There's a rubber ducky floating on the water, which represents a little inside humor.
In the corridor leading to the last Chamber 1, there is a second Vulcan Raven Action Figure floating near the doorway.
More Arsenal Gibberish
If you are killed in Arsenal Gear and use a Continue, when Raiden reenters the area the name will be displayed in gibberish.
Imprinted Dog Tags
At the end of the game, the information you entered during the first login to a Node will appear on Raiden's Dog Tags, nicely into the metal.
Radar Weather Girl
When Raiden is waiting for Snake in the Arsenal Gear corridor, a short video featuring a Konami Eyes model will suddenly overtake the Soliton Radar display. Don't answer a Codec call while the video is playing, or it will disappear.
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Following are things you'll notice about Metal Gear Solid 2 in a replay game.
Clear Code
Jot down the code at the end of any episode. Then go to the Metal Gear Solid 2 site at www.konamijpn.com and input the code. Your code contains information about your ranking, which will be displayed for you.
To recieve a better clear code, replay the entire game and move with better stealth. Completer the harder difficulty levels, finish the entire game quickly, don't kill anyone you don't have to, don't use a Continue, and don't save your game. Your ranking is a summary of everything you see on the Results screen after the credits.
Episode Choice
After completing the game, the title of you save will be red. Load this game in order to play with the new items you recieved. Whether you load the clear game or start a brand new game, you can now play a full game over again, or you can play either the "Tanker" or "Plant" chapter alone. Completing either of these shorter versions of the game allows you to recieve a ranking and the Digital Camera, but not any other bonus items.
Different Title Screen
Clear the game once, and the title screen will feature a blue image of Raiden. Clear the game again, and it goes back to Snake's red face. Metal Gear RAY can be seen in the background of the next screen.
Standing At Attention
During your second game, all the Marines in the last Hold of the the Tanker will be missing there trousers.
Skip The Dialog
Certain scenes that you couldn't skip in your first game can be skipped in replay games. Press START or the (X) button to skip a scene.
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When you play the game through a certain way and start a new game, your character will have new items in the inventory.
Digital Camera
Complete the game at any difficulty level, and you'll be able to replay the "Tanker-Plant" episode with the Digital Camera already in your inventory. To get the Digital Camera in the individual episodes, you'll have to clear each one individually.
Infite Ammo Bandana
Collect every soldier's Dog Tags in the "Tanker-Plant" game, and start a new game from this save. Snake's inventory includes the Infinite Ammo Bandana. He never runs out of bullets.
Wigs
Collect every soldier's Dog Tags in the "Tanker-Plant" game, and start a new game from this save. Raiden has a (Brown) Wig in his inventory. Wearing this, he never runs out of bullets.
Collect Every soldier's Dog Tags from Very Easy-Hard, and start a new game from this save. Raiden has a (Orange) Wig in his inventory. Wearing this, he has infinite grip.
Collect Every soldier's Dog Tags from Very Easy-Hard, and start a new game from this save. Raiden has a (Blue) Wig in his inventory. Wearing this, he has infinite oxygen will under water.
Stealth
Collect Every soldier's Dog Tags from Very Easy and Easy, and start a new game from this save. Snake and Raiden have "stealth" in there inventory.
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