I just bought the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection a few days ago, it is one impressive set for the price. I highly recommend it for anyone with a PS2 or a backwards compatible PS3, if you have never played them before but have the tiny bit of interest in them, or if you own one or two of them but not all three, or if you own just the initial releases of Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater, at thirty bucks this thing is completely worth it. Even MGS2 Substance alone sells for close to $30 for a used copy.

I owned MGS for my PC and I picked up a used copy of Son of Liberty last year, but it was worth buying them again for the matching packaging and Substance & Subsistence. Only things that makes this set less than perfect IMHO is the lack of the second disc for MGS3: Subsistance and the fact that the manuals are printed in black and white (which makes the pictures almost impossible to make out).