This is the game my dark green PSP-3000 came bundled with, and I remember playing it a lot even though I never managed to complete it (while my brothers did). This definitely was an interesting first game to try out of the MGS franchise, and the funny part is how the next game I got my hands on is MGS3D. So yeah, I first met Big Boss starting to do his thing...and then I played the game with his origin story...and both of these are way before the games with the titular Solid Snake even happen lol
Great to see someone remember this game today, I remember messing around with the Fulton soldiers for those limited missions and being somewhat nervous with how they easily could drop like flies.
Inside this game, I'm quite intrigued by the story of "The Boss" I would like to play it until I complete it, but, its controls are not very good, at least I've never got used to that kind of controls, I'm more used to move the camera with the joystick and then shoot and so on, but, here you have to move the camera with the triangle, square, O and X, which is difficult for me because I'm playing on pc with keyboard and not with controller.
I will investigate more about its history to read what really happened with The Boss and why Big Boss left at the awards ceremony, although I can imagine the reason, nobody would like to be given a medal for having killed his teacher.