Despite the polarizing nature of the storyline, the game was acclaimed for its groundbreaking gameplay and graphics which heavily utilized the PlayStation 2's capabilities. The story is thematically ambitious and contains elements of surrealism, post-modernism, and Breaking the Fourth Wall. The game is especially remembered for laying down one Mind Screw of an ending which has been analyzed endlessly and even has its very own page here on TV Tropes. Also introduced are The Patriots, a ruling cabal which has secretly been orchestrating every Metal Gear game (news to FOXHOUND and co.), and the series' famous Kudzu Plot takes root here.

However, things really get ramped Up to Eleven in this installment, with lengthy sequences of cutscenes and Codec calls that can last up to half an hour. But not only are the Sons of Liberty backed up by a band of Russian mercenaries and a rogue American counter-terrorism unit called 'Dead Cell', but their leader claims to be Solid Snake himself.īeing a Metal Gear game, you can expect a whole lot of chatter and the plot to be denser than a cement block. A rookie FOXHOUND agent codenamed 'Raiden' is tasked with infiltrating the facility and rescuing the hostages held by the Sons of Liberty hostages that include the President of the United States. But two years later, Big Shell is taken over by a domestic terrorist group calling themselves the 'Sons of Liberty'.

In response to the spill, the United States government builds a marine decontamination facility called 'Big Shell' off the coast of New York. As a result, Snake is framed as an eco-terrorist and goes off the grid. Before he can leak the images to the press, however, the tanker is suddenly attacked by a group of Russian mercenaries - led by his old enemy, the enigmatic Revolver Ocelot - and is destroyed in the chaos, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean. Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich, Snake sneaks onboard the oil tanker secretly transporting the new Metal Gear to obtain evidence.

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