Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-based third-person shooter released for the PlayStation on February 26, 1999. It was published by Konami, and directed by Hideo Kojima. .

Plot

On the fictional off-shore island close to Alaska, named Shadow Moses, a nuclear disposal site is taken over by Next-Generation Special Forces, led by Liquid Snake and Revolver Ocelot. The game's protagonist, Solid Snake, is called in to stop the terrorists using the Government's weapon which is housed there, as well as rescuing a DARPA Chief and President Baker of ArmsTech. The weapon is Metal Gear, a nuclear-equipped walking tank.

Snake tries in vain to rescue the two men, who are meant to have keys to stop Metal Gear, but both seem to die of heart-attacks. Snake finds out the way to deactivate Metal Gear is to use cards given to him by Baker (before he died) and to insert them into the computers next to Metal Gear itself. However, Snake was tricked. Ocelot had killed the DARPA chief due to his torture, and they didn't receive the key, so they could not start Metal Gear. Decoy Octopus, a master of disguise, pretended to be the DARPA chief when Snake arrived, and told him how to deactivate Metal Gear, when in fact, doing this would activate it.

Many of the stronger Next-Generation Special Forces are killed, as Naomi reveals to Snake that he is carrying a virus called FOXDIE, designed to kill them. However, Liquid Snake reveals that both he and Solid Snake are clones of the legendary soldier Big Boss, as are the Next-Generation Forces. Therefore, Solid Snake has the same DNA and is vulnerable to the virus.

Snake activates Metal Gear, controlled by Liquid Snake, and manages to destroy it. Afterwards, they all try to escape from the compund and Liquid eventually dies from FOXDIE. At the end, Snake does not now how long he has to live.

Remakes

Metal Gear Solid: Integral / Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions

Integral was a release of Metal Gear Solid for the PC. The game introduced a "Very Easy" difficulty setting for the main game as well as a photography mode, but the most notable improvement was the inclusion of a disc containing 300 VR missions . Although it was only released on the PC in Japan, it was released as an expansion pack for the original PlayStation game in the US and UK. In the US, it was named Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions and it in UK, it was named Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions .

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

Twin Snakes is a remake of the original game, but for GameCube featuring much improved graphics. Snake was also given new abilities, which he had in Metal Gear Solid 2, including being able to hang from ledges and shooting from first person view. The cutscenes and audio were re-written in many places.

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