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whadu · Level 49: GameShark **Posts:** 37007 **Timestamp:** Mon May 26, 08 2:13 PM

Plot

Solid Snake in battle against Metal Gear REX

In 2005 (six years after the events of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake), FOXHOUND and a genetically enhanced Next-Generation Special Forces unit lead an armed uprising on a remote isle located in Alaska's Fox Archipelago called Shadow Moses. It is the site of a nuclear weapons disposal facility.[17] They have acquired the nuclear-capable walking tank Metal Gear REX, and have threated the U.S. government with a nuclear reprisal if they do not receive the remains of the "legendary mercenary" Big Boss within 24 hours.

As the game begins, Solid Snake, now in retirement at Alaska's Twin Lakes,[22] is forcibly dispatched at the request of Colonel Roy Campbell to penetrate the terrorist defenses, neutralize the threat.[23] Snake is also ordered to locate hostages Donald Anderson, the DARPA chief and ArmsTech president Kenneth Baker. After finding the DARPA chief, he informs Snake of the new Metal Gear REX unit housed at the facility, and its deactivation procedure,[24] but then suddenly dies of what appear to be a heart attack.[25] Snake then finds the other hostage, Kenneth Baker. Revolver Ocelot challenges Snake to a gunfight, which is interrupted by a mysterious cyborg ninja who severs Ocelot's hand before escaping. Baker briefs Snake on the Metal Gear project but like the DARPA Chief; he suddenly dies of a heart attack.

Snake then contacts Silverburgh via Codec, and agrees to meet her in the base's warhead disposal area on the condition that he contacts Metal Gear's designer, Hal "Otacon" Emmerich. Snake locates Otacon in his lab. The ninja reappears, and Snake realizes that it is actually his former ally Gray Fox, who he believed to have killed years earlier. Otacon agrees to aid Snake remotely, using special camouflage to procure information and supplies while he remains invisible. Snake meets with Silverburgh. She tells him she joined the military to feel closer to her father, who was killed in action, and his brother (Roy Campbell). Snake agrees for her to accompany him on his mission. Silverburgh gives Snake a PAL key and they head for the underground base. Part way through the base, Sniper Wolf ambushes them, wounds Silverburgh and captures Snake.

While imprisoned, Liquid confirms Snake's suspicion that they are twin brothers.[26] Snake is tortured by Ocelot[27] and the player can choose to give in to this torture, or not. Eventually Snake is able to escape.

Snake descends into the bowels of the Shadow Moses facility, first cutting through the base forge then into the warehouses below. He descovers that the DARPA Chief who Snake encountered was actually FOXHOUND member Decoy Octopus in disguise.[28] Shortly after, Master Miller calls and reveals that Dr. Naomi Hunter, a support agent, has given Snake the genetically engineered virus "FoxDie" during his mission preparations, and is sending coded messages into the facility. Campbell swiftly orders her arrest. The virus, designed to kill people with particular genetic markers via cardiac arrest,[29][30] was responsible for the deaths of Octopus and the ArmsTech president.[31] Naomi, contacts Snake and confesses that she joined the mission to sabotage it as she is the adoptive sister of Gray Fox. Upon learning of Snake's own past through the current mission, she no longer had the heart to kill him directly having reprogrammed the virus.

Infiltrating Metal Gear's hangar, Snake discovers that the warhead Liquid plans to fire is targeted for Lop Nor in China. Liquid explains to Ocelot that Lop Nor is a nuclear test site and can be concealed from the public while the United States are forced to deal with a retaliatory strike from China. Thinking he is deactivating it, using the PAL key, Snake activates Metal Gear REX.[33] Master Miller then reveals himself to be Liquid in disguise. He informs Snake that his entire mission was manipulated by the renegades to allow the launch of the nuclear weapon.[34] Liquid explains that they are the product of the Les Enfants Terribles project, a government sponsored effort to clone legendary mercenary Big Boss that was conducted during the 1970s. However, part of the process required that their genes be altered. Solid received all of Big Boss' dominant genes while Liquid received all the recessive genes.

Snake manages to disable the machine's sensors with the aid of Otacon. Liquid then explains to Snake how the Genome soldiers and the Gulf War babies were genetically related to them. Snake is then reunited with Meryl or Otacon, depending on the player's actions (see next paragraph). They escape, while being chased by Liquid, in a jeep. Liquid dies from the FoxDie virus.[37] Colonel Campbell, briefly ousted from command of the mission, calls off a nuclear airstrike intended to obliterate the evidence of the day's events and officially declares Snake killed in action to stop the US Government's search for him in the future.

There are two possible endings, depending on the player's actions during the game. If the player gives into the torture, Snake finds Silverburgh dead and escapes with Otacon. If the player does not give into the torture, Silverburgh survives and escapes with Snake while Otacon volunteers to stay behind and sacrifice himself to help Snake and Silverburgh get out, not knowing that the air strike intended to hit Shadow Moses would not come.

After the end credits the player finds out Snake is actually genetically inferior to Liquid[38] and has an indeterminate amount of time left before FoxDie kills him. Ocelot is revealed to be a double agent for the President of the United States, the third Snake, Solidus. Ocelot's intention was to obtain Baker's disk containing Metal Gear's specifications and deliver it to the President.

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