Metal Gear 1-2 etc (Side scrollers)
Metal Gear SOLID 1-4, Peace Walker, Ground Zero (Stealth mostly style gameplay)
Metal Gear AC!D 1-2 (Tactical RPG style gameplay)
Metal Gear RISING (Action style gameplay)
every sub series has significant changes to the gameplay, the title is called Metal Gear Rising for a reason, Kojima even explained the reason it had solid removed feom the name is because it's not solid but it's own game in the Metal Gear Story








