Just look at the lips, squinty eyes and Wakka hair on this magnificent specimen. I wonder what female Japanese gamers would have thought of THIS Solid Snake 
Also, why does this very green and EXTREMELY 90s looking Meryl have some kind of Iron Age shortsword on her belt?
I have to know if this magazine was around for MGS2- their version of Raiden must have been transcendent. They would’ve probably drawn him to look like Dolph Lundgren as He-Man
EDIT
I just chortled at this goofy magazine cover illustration but apparently someone at Konami liked it enough that it was actually used as the cover for the manual of MGS: Integral in Japan
Man I’ve been in Japan for months and have yet to see a single MGS related thing, very sad. Meanwhile evangelion posters and figures are everywhere and I hear cruel angel’s thesis at least once a week. I thought MGS was pretty big but maybe just in the west? I even went to a paremovedo parlor hoping to find the fabled MGS3 paremovedo machine, no luck
To be fair, there hasn’t been a new game out in a while and the MGS3 pacheenko machine was like 10 years ago. I assume those things get replaced pretty regularly