The James Bond of video games
The first Metal Gear-game I played... or maybe not completely true since I watched the neighbour play Metal Gear for the NES when I was a kid, but this was the first one I played and finished for myself. Got it as a birthday present... or maybe Christmas. Hard to keep those apart with only a couple days difference. I used to watch the preview clip that came with the Super Play magazine when it come out, together with the other Metal Gear Solid-games and I really liked the cinematic experience, but we never got any game for the Playstation 2, even tough as we bought it it could have included Metal Gear Solid 2. Got two controllers and Final Fantasy X instead. So the Metal Gear debut didn't happen until this game. And it was mind-blowing.
It might be totally ridiculous plot with nano machines, shamanistic giants, cyborg ninjas and a walking battle tank, but it's so fun. You play as Solid Snake, hero of former covert operations that stopped Big Boss, the former hero turned traitor that tried to create an eternal war for the soldiers to continue to fight without the "dirty" politicians corrupting the warrior spirits of the soldiers. Snake retired, but is pulled into action to infiltrate an American base on Shadow Moses Island that was taken over by Snakes old group Fox Hound during a military training and demonstration with a governmental official and the head for one military contractor. They threatens to launch a nuclear missile so Snake is sent in by his old boss Colonel Campbell (who I recently found out is voiced by the guy that voices Max Tennyson from Ben10). Objective to rescue the hostage and see if the terrorist can unleash their plan. So they send you in with a submarine and launches you on a torpedo into the base. Sneak in and rescue the first hostage, the DARPA chief and he spills the story. The government had a black ops building a new weapon, a Metal Gear, the same machine Snake fought two times before. And then he dies in a heart attack.
You get out and meet Meryl, the only soldier who didn't join the terrorists who apparently is Campbell's niece. You get deeper into the compound and discovers the other hostage tied up to explosives, but are put on a revolver duel with... Revolver Ocelot. The fight ends with the aforementioned Cyborg Ninja cutting of Ocelots arm. The hostage spills the beans and... he dies of a heart attack. Gotta be a coincidence. Before the death he tells you to contact Meryl with the code on the back of the box... what box? I think I was able to run back and forth at least two times over the areas I've already been too before the helpful codec-conversation told me where to look, on the back of the game box... damn fourth wall breaking. So basically the plot has shifted to determine if Liquid Snake, the leader of the rouge agents, have accessed Metal Gear and if he has, be able to stop it. Also the Ninja appears to be a Frank Jaeger, Grey Fox that Snake saved in the first game and later fought in the second game. And the plot only gets more complicated, the rouge agent gets killed one by one until Meryl is caught and with her Snake. Snakes tortured and it is revealed the DARPA-chief have been dead for a long time... which I guess would clue in everyone that the first was a decoy, which is later proven right by another rouge agent before he is eaten by his ravens. Also depending if you withstand the torture or not affects if Meryl will live or die in the end of the game. First time I actually missed how to input the right commands which caused me getting the "bad" ending.
It's a nuclear-equped walking battle tank... and a cyborg ninja!!! AWESOME!!!
It might be totally ridiculous plot with nano machines, shamanistic giants, cyborg ninjas and a walking battle tank, but it's so fun. You play as Solid Snake, hero of former covert operations that stopped Big Boss, the former hero turned traitor that tried to create an eternal war for the soldiers to continue to fight without the "dirty" politicians corrupting the warrior spirits of the soldiers. Snake retired, but is pulled into action to infiltrate an American base on Shadow Moses Island that was taken over by Snakes old group Fox Hound during a military training and demonstration with a governmental official and the head for one military contractor. They threatens to launch a nuclear missile so Snake is sent in by his old boss Colonel Campbell (who I recently found out is voiced by the guy that voices Max Tennyson from Ben10). Objective to rescue the hostage and see if the terrorist can unleash their plan. So they send you in with a submarine and launches you on a torpedo into the base. Sneak in and rescue the first hostage, the DARPA chief and he spills the story. The government had a black ops building a new weapon, a Metal Gear, the same machine Snake fought two times before. And then he dies in a heart attack.
And of course the black guy dies first, how typical.
You get out and meet Meryl, the only soldier who didn't join the terrorists who apparently is Campbell's niece. You get deeper into the compound and discovers the other hostage tied up to explosives, but are put on a revolver duel with... Revolver Ocelot. The fight ends with the aforementioned Cyborg Ninja cutting of Ocelots arm. The hostage spills the beans and... he dies of a heart attack. Gotta be a coincidence. Before the death he tells you to contact Meryl with the code on the back of the box... what box? I think I was able to run back and forth at least two times over the areas I've already been too before the helpful codec-conversation told me where to look, on the back of the game box... damn fourth wall breaking. So basically the plot has shifted to determine if Liquid Snake, the leader of the rouge agents, have accessed Metal Gear and if he has, be able to stop it. Also the Ninja appears to be a Frank Jaeger, Grey Fox that Snake saved in the first game and later fought in the second game. And the plot only gets more complicated, the rouge agent gets killed one by one until Meryl is caught and with her Snake. Snakes tortured and it is revealed the DARPA-chief have been dead for a long time... which I guess would clue in everyone that the first was a decoy, which is later proven right by another rouge agent before he is eaten by his ravens. Also depending if you withstand the torture or not affects if Meryl will live or die in the end of the game. First time I actually missed how to input the right commands which caused me getting the "bad" ending.
Before the ending I just have to finish of REX
Epic battle where Grey Fox sacrifice himself to save his old comrade. After the battle there's a one on one between the Twin Snakes. Also revealed that they are clones of Big Boss and that Liquid has a real inferiority complex. You beat him and either escape with Meryl or Otacon, the scientist that helped build Metal Gear REX. After a long drive with a pursuing Liquid that fires at you leave the base and prepers for yet another showdown when suddenly, Liquid dies in a heart attack. Earlier it was revealed that the nanomaschines that was injected in the start of the game also contained some sort of virus that simulates a heart attack in the right DNA-coded people. This is the reason people been dying around Snake. Snake and either person following him travels across the snow into the unknown future as the virus within Snake has some unknown parameters that could prove deadly for Snake as well. And then you either get a bandana for unlimited ammo or a cloaking device. And then you replay the game again. I really liked this game. The over the top acting is cheesy fun, the ridicules plot is worthy of a Bond-movie (and in some cases probably are more grounded in reality, I mean, the West willingly giving espionage information to China and Russia? I mean come on!). A pity it took forever after it to get to play another Metal Gear, next one was actually Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3 which caused some problems following the continuities in the games in-between.
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