The double takes on the codename Venom Snake and leads the Diamond Dogs mercenary group on missions in Afghanistan and Central Africa. In 1984, Big Boss and his body double awaken from their comas. Zero realizes he will soon lose his faculties and begins a plan to create an advanced AI system to carry on The Patriots’ mission. In 1978 XOF leader Skullface attacks Patriots leader Major Zero with a parasite weapon. He subjects the medic to plastic surgery and mental conditioning, leaving him believing he’s Big Boss. While unconscious, Zero devises a plan to create a body double for Big Boss and chooses a comatose MSF medic as the subject. In the ensuing chaos, Mother Base is destroyed and Big Boss falls into a coma. He infiltrates and extracts the pair, though realizes too late that the mission was a cover for rogue unit XOF to attack Mother Base. In 1975, two of Big Boss’ former comrades, the child soldier Chico and Patriot double agent Paz, are being held in Camp Omega. Big Boss expands his operation, is granted an offshore plant he names Mother Base, and eventually gains control of both a bipedal mech known as Metal Gear ZEKE and a nuclear weapon. In 1972 Big Boss forms a mercenary group called Militaries Sans Frontieres and in 1974 they become engaged in the ‘Peace Walker’ incident on Costa Rica. They don’t get Big Boss’ consent and he’s furious when he realizes what they’ve done, promptly breaking away from The Patriots.

Realizing that Big Boss’ sterility means his genes will die with him, Zero and Para-Medic begin the top-secret Les Enfant Terribles project in 1971 and successfully clone him. They call themselves The Patriots, promote Big Boss as an inspirational soldiering figure, and give him command of the FOXHOUND unit. The founding members are Zero, Big Boss, Ocelot, and Operation Snake Eater support crew Para-Medic and Sigint. Inspired by The Boss, Major Zero decides to form an organization intended to unite the world. With their aid, Big Boss ends the FOX Unit revolt. He breaks free and assembles an alliance of disillusioned enemy soldiers. They kidnap Big Boss and interrogate him on the whereabouts of the Philosopher’s Legacy. In 1970 the FOX Unit goes rogue and seizes control of a Soviet base in Central America. 1970s Big Boss as leader of MSF (Image via Konami) He is awarded the title “Big Boss”, though The Boss’ sacrifice leaves him disillusioned with the way countries treat soldiers as pawns. Jack succeeds, though realizes to his horror that The Boss was actually a double agent who’d been sacrificed to ensure world peace. A young Ocelot is present and forms an instant crush on the hunky Naked Snake.

Naked Snake is tasked with eliminating The Boss, the Cobra Unit, and Colonel Volgin, destroying a secret weapons system, and retrieving the Philosopher’s Legacy. She announces she’s defecting to the Soviet Union, tosses Snake off a bridge, and hands a portable nuclear weapon to rogue Soviet Colonel Volgin - who promptly uses it to nuke Sokolov’s lab.Īn American-made nuclear weapon being used on Soviet soil causes an international incident, and Operation Snake Eater is hastily devised as a way for the U.S. Naked Snake reaches the lab and extracts Sokolov, only to encounter The Boss. The particulars are devised by former SAS soldier Major Zero, now leader of the special ops group the FOX Unit. Jack - codenamed Naked Snake - is handpicked for what’s dubbed the Virtuous Mission. In 1964 the CIA receives word that a Soviet weapons scientist wishes to defect. 1960s Big Boss after Operation Snake Eater (Image via Konami) He would go on to become a decorated Green Beret and infiltration and survival specialist. Jack is present at Bikini Atoll for the 1954 Castle Bravo H-Bomb test, during which he is irradiated and rendered sterile. They remain in close contact throughout the 1950s. The two form a close relationship and co-develop the martial art of CQC. In 1950, the Korean War begins and a talented soldier named Jack becomes The Boss’ disciple. Meanwhile, secret international society The Philosophers have begun to pool their vast wealth in order to alter the course of world history, this fund would become known as the Philosopher’s Legacy. She would go on to lead them into Normandy on D-Day while heavily pregnant and the baby - the future Revolver Ocelot - is delivered by cesarean section on the battlefield. In 1942, expert soldier The Boss forms the Cobra Unit. So, without further ado, here’s the full Metal Gear story in as concise and clear a manner as possible. These games cover roughly 80 years of nuclear-equipped walking death mobiles, bondage psychics, bisexual vampires, nanomachine chaos, and clones. Hideo Kojima weaves a tangled web with the Metal Gearsaga.

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