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Post your MGS4 screenies here.

 

 

The camera can be found by driving the Mk.II around during the Act 2 Mission Briefing. Remember that you can always go back to earlier mission briefings via the main menu, so if you don't grab it the first time around, you can snag it at any point after you've started Act 2.

 

The camera operates in two modes: 1P (first person shots - this takes over for your weapon; press R1 to take a picture), or 2P (the second controller can be used to take third-person pictures by pressing R1). Switch between these two modes by pressing Circle while in the Item menu.

 

To get your photos out of the game:

 

1. Main Menu > Photo Album

2. Select the photo you wish to export.

3. Play with the editing controls if you feel the need, then pick "Export"

4. Select "Normal Upload" for a full size picture.

5. Confirm that you want to export the photo.

6. You'll receive a confirmation that it's been exported. The file can be found in the Photos section of the XMB. Copy it off to a memory card or flash stick and do what you will!

 

 

Below is playstation's epic post chronicling all the events from the Metal Gear Saga, painstakingly taken from the LE guide book. Enjoy folks:).

 

 

Spoiler warning !

this article contains the entire metal gear solid series story that span over one hundred years.

 

ADVICE: Read In a Well Lit Room .

EYE HAVE YOU.

 

METAL GEAR SOLID

SYNOPSIS

The story of the Metal gear series span over one

Hundred years,from the origins of the Philospher's to the conclusion of METAL GEAR SOLID 4.Each game in the series is broadbly,a self contained episode,yet they are all intricately interwoven; to have missed an installment can rob certain encounters or revelations of their full impact.In this synopsis(and the following interpretation) of the entire Metal Gear narrative.we explore its key moments and developements to enable readers(die-hards and newcomers alike) to better enjoy this absorbing tale.

 

I- THE DAYS OF IDEALS

 

The starting point of the metal gear saga, the creation of The Philosophers, occurred during 1900s.This unique and deeply secretive organistaion was established by a select group of eminent figures from the three countries that were to dominate the century that lay ahead: the United States,Russia and China. Together,these individuals gathered a pratically boundless sum of funds ,known as The philosophers’ Legacy, that they believed would be sufficient to

Win any present of future world conflict.Those who wield the resources to wage war also possess the means to prevent it, and The Philosophers sought to achieve this noble goal by using their incredible resources and powerful influence to steer world history away from brutal,needless warfar.However, with time and the death of its founding members,the raison d’etre of this clandestine committee was gradually corrupted;The Philosophers’ philosophy was not passed on to posterity.In the confusion and chaos that ensued after the Second World War.the USSR,or precisely,an individual named Colonel Volgin-recovered and gained sole possession of The Philosophers’ Legacy.

 

Much of the story of Metal Gear Solid 3(the first episode of the chronology of the series)concers the fight between the three countries that created The Philosophers’ Legacy to claim it for themselves.During the Cold War, the growing nuclear arsenals possessed by the US and USSr led both nations to adhere to a doctrine of mutual assured destruction(MAD)-the fact that a strike by one nation would lead other to retaliate with equal or greater force.With a Full-Scale ground war deemed impractial(and,moreover,a catalyst for the inevitably lethal escalation that would surely follow),and any potential nuclear strike certain to trigger ‘’ launch on warning’’(or ‘’fail deadly’’)systems,both sides instead engaged in proxy battles on both actual and indeologi9cal battlefields.The events of the Metal Gear Solid 3 takes place in 1964 following the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS,a breakdown in diplomacy that brought both nations closer to Armageddon than ever before or since.

 

An American agent (NAKED SNAKE) is sent in to SOVIET territory by the US secret services to facilitate the defection of a scientist(Nikolai Sokolov) who is poised to finalize the creation of a weapon so powerful that it could disrupt the delicate balance that prevents nuclear warfare between the two superpowers.To accomplish his mission,Naked Snake has support of a remote team that includes his commander(Major Zero),a medical adviser(para-medic),an expert in technology and intelligence(Sigint),and his former mentor,a legendary female warrior known,with due reverence ,as THE BOSS.

 

A master in the arts of infilitration and survival techniques,Naked Snake succeeds in making contact with Sokolov.When attempting to escape,however,they are confronted by THE BOSS who,against all odds,chooses to join forces with Colonel Volgin,and provides him with two US-made portable nuclear warheads as token of her sincerity.Volgin,in possession of The Philosophers’ Legacy and aided by The Boss and Ocelot(a young prodigy of the Russian military),plans to overthrow Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev’s government and use the Shagohod weapon created by Sokolov to enable the USSR to win the cold war.In a distinctly one-sided fight.The boss seriously injures Naked Snake and leaves him near death.Volgin and his allies then leave wityh sokolv inorder to force him to complete his invention.Gravely wounded,Naked Snake witnesses the explosion of the research center where Shagohod was developed when Volgin activates one of the two nuclear devices.

 

As Naked Snake is convalescing in hospital in the week following his rescue and extraction,the President of the United States receives a call from Soviet Premier Khruschev.Aware that the destruction of the research center was caused by an American bomb.Khruschev demands that they make amends by eliminating Volgin who,being an ally of his political rival Leonid Brezhnev,he regards as a dangerous adversary.Major Zero and Naked Snake are given the opportunity to find redemption for their earlier Failure by helping to avert a major global crisis.the objective of their mission(dubbed “Snake Eater”) is to retrieve Sokolov,destroy Shagohod,and execute Volgin and The Boss.

 

Naked Snake is sent back to Soviet teriitory,where he is told to expect the assistance of two local agents,Adam and Eva.On arrival, he finds Eva-but not a trace of Adam. A cia mole operating within Volgin’s organization,Eva reveals where Sokolov is detained.Naked Snake eventually succeeds in destroying Shagohod and killing Volgin after a protracted and spectacular battle. One last task then awaits Naked snake to fulfill his mission,he must bring down his mentor,his spiritual mother,his former lover,The Boss. As they stand poised to fight she talks of her life,and relates many of the numerous sacrifices she has made as a soldier.Naked Snake battles with his emotions and wins the duel to death,and is given the microfilm containing the access codes to the Philosopher’s legacy just before The Boss dies. Naked Snake then escapes with EVA,who steals the microfilm as he sleeps.In the message she leaves behind,it is revealed that Eva was actually an agent of the Chinese Government,tasked with the responsibility of gaining control of the Legacy for her Country.

 

The closing moments of Metal Gear Solid 3 provides answers to many questions.It appears that the defection of The Boss was a hige deception to enable her to approach Volgin and retrieve The Philosopher’s Legacy .Her Final duty was to accept her role as a traitor to the last,and die at the hands of her apprentice in order to conceal her true mission.For killing The Boss,Naked Snake is promoted to the rank of living legend,Big Boss, and is entrusted with the command of the elite FoxHound unti.It also becomes clear that Eva(having served the United States,Volgin and ,ultimately,China) was not unique in her status as a triple agent.In a statling twist,it is revealed that Ocelot was actually working for the United States government,despite his involvement with the two Soviet factions in the story the microfilm he left for Eva to steal was a fake;the genuine article is returned to the US.

The events of Metal Gear Solid 3,as we learn during its denouement,are all due to a complex yet slickly executed series of maneuvers devised to retrieve The Philosopher’s legacy from the clutches of Volgin.The boss irrevocably tarbishes her reputation by defecting inorder to infiltrate Volgin’s organization,her gift of two nuclear warheads an irredeemable act of treason,a point of no return,the clinically brutal(yet as we understand with hindsight,subtly restrained)humiliation of her protégé in their first battle underlines her apparent dedication to Volgin’s cause.Volgin’s use of one of the two miniature nukes to destroy Sokolov’s research centre leads to a rapid chain of events that enables the US Government to return Naked Snake to Soviet soil to play his unique(and unwitting) role in the Byzantine ploy.Ocelot,loyal to the Americans(and,incidentally,the biological son of The Boss),is the contact that Naked Snake is supposed tomeet(under the moniker”Adam”).However,Ocelot chooses to remain deep undercover,allowing the Chinese agent Eva(ostensibly a second American spy, but in truth attempting to gain control of The Philosopher’s Legacy for her country)to greet him instead.

For Volgin,the detection of The Boss was to be the final ingredient in his plans to overthrow Khruschev and employ Sokolov’s Shagohod weapons platform to gain a decisive advantage in the Cold War.Ironically,he simply succeeded in introducing another enemy agent to his ranks,and instigated his own downfall.

The Boss and Ocelot were loyal to the United States,and Eva to china; as for Sokolov,he would hate to his weapons in the hand of the colonel. The Boss and her son Ocelot cleverly steer events in the required direction,all the while knowing perfectly well the game each protagonist is playing.The Boss assists Eva because she knows the microfilm eva seeks will ultimately prove to be fake;she also ‘’protects’’ her apprentice Naked Snake,as she intends for him to take her role after her death.Ocelot,meanwhile,does his part to ensure that the Shagohod and Volgin are eliminated before he carries off The Philosopher’s Legacy on behalf of the United States. In doing so,he additionally satisfies the agendas of Khrushchev(Volgin is dead),of Brezhnev(khrushchev’s position as Soviet Premier is weakened by the crisis,with Brezhnev his most likely successor)and,most pertinently,of the US(whose recovery of the Legacy is concealed in the aftermath).

 

The Boss was certainly the one who knew best what the whole incident had in store for her.A patriot to the very last ,she choose to die for her country by assuming the mantle of traitor. Naked Snake understands her gesture and the significance of her sacrifice at the end of the adventure.His grief and disenchantment are heightened by the sheer perversity of his elevation to the rank of Big Boss by the superiors that so casually discarded his predecessor,the woman he worshipped above all others.

 

This was the price of The Boss’s ideal, the cost of her commitment.She was ready to die for the way of life she freely choose,the expression of liberty that she lived for : love and loyalty to her country.It was this ideal that led to the birth of the infamous “Patriots”

 

II- THE DAYS OF CORRUPTION

 

Individuals may die, but their contributions ,their actions and ideas, can abide long after death. Major Zero and Big Boss (Naked Snake’s new name) chose to embrace the ideals that The Boss held dear. Her willingness to sacrifice all for the protection of her country left a lasting impression .and led to creation of The Patriots in the early 1970s.This elite organization, bankrolled by The Philosophers’ Legacy and dedicated to the protection of The United States, originally consisted of six founding members: major Zero(the group’s senior figure),Big Boss,Ocelot,Eva,Sigint(later known as Donald Anderson) and Para-medic(alias Dr.Clark).

 

In order to ensure the supremacy of the United States.The Patriots envisaged a radical solution: a process of imposing the political,economic and social model of the US on the rest of the world.BY standardizing other nations through subtle manipulation, nurturing facsimiles of their own cultural and political landscape,they believed that they might prevent future opposition or outside threat. In doing so , they misinterpreted (or,perhaps,simply,lost sight of) the true passion behind the principles of the woman that inspired them: her belief in individual liberty, which underpinned her desire to defend her nation at all costs,even at the expense of her own life. Where The Boss might have led by example. The Patriots (and particularly Zero ) increasingly sought total control to achieve their ultimate goals; the ends,in their eyes,would justify the means.

 

With the practically inexhaustible resources that The Philosophers’ Legacy put at their disposal, the influence of The Patriots grew as banks,foundations, corporations and,indeed,goverments came to rely on their investments.

With the iconic Big Boss promoted as living legend,helping to guide the opinions of the masses and the rich and powerful alike,The Patriots began to shape the development of the world’s political and social landscape. As the organization’s power grew.so too did the disillusionment of Big Boss, who felt manipulated and exploited by Zero, and repulsed by his methods.

 

Realizing the growing distance between two friends ,Zero secretly launched the “Les Enfants Terribles” project. Through the expertise of DR.Clark(alias Para-Medic), an egg donation from her Japanese assistant, and with EVA acting as surrogate mother, three clones of Big Boss were created in Utmost secrecy: Solid Snake,Liquid Snake and later,Solidus Snake. When Big Boss learnt of his betrayal,he came to realize that his friend attached little, if any, significance to the founding principles of The Patriots, and that his thirst for power would eventually suffocate all freedom in the world.

 

The estrangement of the two friends was now complete. Where Major Zero dreamt solely of control over minds and information, Big Boss began to obsess over freedom ; a total, anarchic , furious freedom ; the drastic removal of all constraints and rules , an open and permanent battlefield where men could let their impulses and desires flow recklessly. Zero desired total order, and Big Boss the very antithesis: total chaos, extremes of individual liberty.

 

Big Boss left The patriots and siappeared for several years, enabling Zero to consolidate his power and influence. The games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake tell the story of how Big Boss (assisted by Frank Jaegar, alias Gray Fox) seized control of two [ fictional ]nations with an army of mercenaries- first Outer heaven , and later Zazibarland. On both occasions,Big Boss would be foiled by Solid Snake, his sons( or,to be more precise,clone- though this was not clear to Snake at the time). Despite being unaware of their existence, Solid Snake unwittingly acted as a tool of The Patriots- and,specifically,Zero. Once Snake completed his mission in Zanzibarland, The Patriots secretly retrieved the bodies of Big Boss and Gray Fox. The former was kept in state of perpetual coma; Gray Fox was made a test subject for experimental body enhancement surgery ,eventually becoming the Cyborg Ninja.

 

For Zero, the perceived betrayal of his friend heightened his contempt for humanity. Rather than hand control of the organization to a subsequent generation of secret governors, he instead chose to initiate the development of a computerized system that would, ultimately, manage world affairs in accordance with his beliefs: in particular, his belief that society could only function through uniformity with restricted individual will.

 

The Boss’s deeply human ideals of freedom and personal commitment were therefore profaned, neglected under Major Zero’s command until they degenerated into a perverted and pathological obsession with control and order, a fear of unanticipated innovation or initiative and a belief in the power of enforced conformity to engender perpetual, manageable repetition. Naturally, such an appallng betrayal of The Boss’s legacy could not go unchallenged.

 

III- The days of the Revenge –

 

For Ocelot and Eva, the two founder members who still understood and appreciated the true nature of the sacrifice made by The Boss, a growing unease with the methods and corrupted ideology of The Patriots solidified into sense of outrage. But how might they strike out an omnipresent enemy, an organization with agents embedded within political, military and economic hierarchies through out the world? To conceal any evidence of their involvement, they devised a sophisticated conspiracy of bewildering complexity.

 

The First step in their clandestine fight to destroy The Patriots from within was accomplished by Gray Fox, who( with assistance of Naomi Hunter ,recruited by Eva) escaped from the laboratory where Patriot scientist had transformed him into a Cyborg Ninja. His assassination of Dr.Clark better known as Para-medic, was vengeance for years of monstrously cruel medical procedures and experiments.

 

That said, the true beginning of their grand plan took place in 2005, with the events of Metal Gear Solid. The story begins as a group of terrorists seize control of an Alaskan nuclear weapons disposal facility (“Shadow Moses”), which secretly houses a radical new weapon: Metal Gear Rex. In response to the crisis, The US Secretary of Defense commissions Roy Campbell (former commander of special forces group FoxHound) and Solid Snake to neutralize terrorist leader Liquid Snake(Solid’s twin brother) and his men-with Ocelot counted among their numbers.

 

The Shadow Mosses Incident, as it would subsequently be known, was initiated by United States President George Sears (Solidus Snake, the third Big Boss clone), who sought to obtain test data from Metal gear Rex project as part of a plan to escape the control of his masters, The Patriots . He commissioned Ocelot to retrieve the required disc from Shadow Moses facility, unaware that Ocelot himself was a founder member of The Patriots. Ocelot , in turn, was of course working to achieve his own ends.

 

To gain control of Metal Gear Rex, liquid attempts to obtain access codes held by two directors of the Rex project: Donald Anderson(or Sigint, a founder member of The Patriots) and Kenneth Baker. Having taken both hostage during the takeover of the Shadow Moses facility, He instructs Ocelot to torture him, but naturally, Anderson immediately recognizes his fellow Patriot; the clinical Ocelot kills him and passes it off as an unfortunate accident. Liquid then attempts to elicit the codes from Solid Snake by instructing one of his men to pose as Anderson. Snake is fooled by this subterfuge, but does not hold the information that liquid requires , and is perplexed when Anderson suddenly dies of an apparent heart attack. Snake, it transpires, is the unwitting vector for a nanomachine based virus called FoxDie, created and introduced into his bloodstream prior to the mission by Naomi Hunter, a member of his support team.

 

Unable to gain the access codes, Liquid has only one option left available- to use special security keys to activate Metal Gear Rex. Snake obtains these when he rescues rookie soldier Meryl Silverburgh from a prison cell. As he fights his way through complex, Snake encounters individuals such as cyborg Ninja, (Gray Fox, the Patriot guinea pig seeking both vengeance and redemption for past crimes), Hal “Otacon” Emmerich( in the first meeting of an abiding friendship), and Ocelot.

IN a confrontation that would have lasting repercussions, Ocelot’s right arm is severed by Gray Fox during a gunfight with Snake.

 

Once the keys are activated, Liquid takes control of Rex. In the battle that ensues, Gray Fox sacrifices his life to enable Snake to triumph against war machine. As Snake escapes with Meryl, a final confrontation occurs between two brothers before the FoxDie virus finally kills the previously relentless Liquid.

 

Details of the Shadow Moses Incident are leaked to the press, and the existence of Metal Gear Rex is revealed on the eve of a planned nuclear disarmament agreement. President George Sears,we learn, is actually Solidus Snake- the third child of the “Les Enfants Terribles” project. Now in possession of the Metal Gear Rex test data, as secured by Ocelot, Solidus abandons his presidency and disappears from public life.

 

In two years between the Shadow Moses Incident and the continuation of the story in Metal Gear Solid 2, Solidus hides from the Patriots and prepares a plan of vengeance against them. Meanwhile, Snake and Otacon join forces to found Philanthropy, an independent non-governmental organization dedicated to preventing the proliferation of Metal Gear technology.

 

In 2007,Snake and Otacon learn that a disguised oil Tanker transporting a new inordinately powerful amphibious model of Metal Gear (Metal Gear Ray) is due to pass close to New York City. Snake infiltrates the vessel and obtains footage of the robot, but matters take a turn for the worst when Ocelot activates a series of explosions to scuttle the tanker and then suddenly, inexplicably, suffers a series of convulsions that seem some how connected to his replacement right arm. It becomes apparent that he is seemingly possessed by the spirit of the deceased Liquid Snake- the original owner, in fact, of Ocelot’ new limb. Under the control of Snake’s brother, he escapes abroad Metal Gear Ray before apparently regaining control of his full faculties.

 

The story resumes two years later in a water purification complex( the “Big Shell”) built on the sitewhere the tanker sunk. Once again, the events that occdur do so due to the meticulous and multifaceted designs of The Patriots, with Ocelot again serving his own separate and artfully concealed interests.

 

In fact, while central character Raiden initially appears to have been deployed to combat a terrorist threat, the entire setup is a bewilderingly elaborate real-life simulation, modeled on the Shadow Moses incident and devised to push its principle protagonist (Raiden) to the very limits of his mental and physical endurance. This experiment is a part of the “Solid Snake Simulation” plan (abbreviated simply as “S3”), contrived to enable The Patriots to explore the complexities of the Human psyche so that they might better control it. By studying Raiden’s responses ( and, indeed, those of the other players in the charade) to the evolving challenges and conditions, The Patriots ultimately hope to refine an AI system created to select and filter the overabundance of information that defines the digital era .

 

The Big Shell purification facility was built on the pretext that the sunken tanker had leaked oil, but is actually a mobile fortress and home to Arsenal Gear, the latest development in Metal Gear technology. The Big Shell is controlled by GW, a Patriots AI system engineered by Emma Emmerich (Otacon’s step-sister) to manipulate the free flows of ideas and data throughout the world. When Solidus and his followers a attack the facility to take control of Arsenal Gear to aid their fight against The Patriots, the shadowy organization has- naturally- anticipated and encouraged this attack.

 

Indeed, almost every party involved in the Big Shell experiment has been unknowingly manipulated by The Patriots to act out the principle events of the Shadow Moses Incident .Solidus and his cohorts play the role of Liquid and the “terrorists”; Olga Gurlukovich, blindly following orders in the hope that she might see her kidnapped daughter Sunny again. Dons a sophisticated body suit to become the Cyborg Ninja; Raiden , ostensibly deployed to thwart Solidus, is their principle test subject, and is therefore given the role of Snake. Even the deception of Raiden in Codec conversations with his superiors and support eam broadly replicates the lies that snake was forced to endure in his fight to stop Liquid and Metal Gear Rex.

 

Only Ocelot and Solid Snake( and , perhaps, Otacon) appear to be outside the operational parameters of this most sophisticated simulation- Ocelot still seeking the downfall of the organization he helped to create, Snake searching for a meaning to his life outside the narrow confines of the vales embraced by his former paymasters. As rogue variables in an intricate program, it is they that cause the simulation to “crash” – their actions and involvement lead to a situation

Where a computer worm created by Emma Emmerich attacks GW. Though it does not destroy the AI as planned, Emma’s program seriously impairs its functionality.

 

BY the end of the drama abroad the Big Shell, virtually all of its actor are dead bar Raiden, Ocelot ,Snake and Otacon. In the final battle of Metal Gear Solid 2, Raiden complies with the wishes of The Patriots and eliminates Solidus, despite learning the real purpose of his “missions”. Devastated by the sheer

spirit- crushing import of their revelations, and his submission to their lies, he is nonetheless inspired by a speech made by Snake, Raiden the veteran warrior explains, is free to commit to(or ,indeed, fight for) any way of life or action he has faith in, and his humanity stems from the sincerity of his faith. Strangely, this is strongly reminiscent of the beliefs held so dear by The Boss ; the very principle of individual liberty which has inspired the ongoing attempts of Ocelot and Eva to destroy The Patriots from within. Perhaps this is why Ocelot does not attack Snake during the story of Metal Gear Solid 2: that despite their different roles and methods, both fight for the same cause.

 

In the aftermath, we can reflect that Ocelot has gained the most from the Shadow Moses and Big Shell Incidents. Of Solidus, only a body remains, but like that of Big Boss, it still has an important role to play. The Patriots fear the bizarre eruptions of spiritual possession that cause Ocelot to act under the control of Liquid Snake, but do not understand that they are merely an exquisitely conceived subterfuge used to conceal Ocelot’s true objectives. Ocelot and Eva have engineered the deaths of two active founders of The Patriots, and stand poised to confront the last of them: Major Zero, whose demise lies at the end of their path to redemption.

 

IV-THE DAYS OF REDEMPTION

 

 

 

Almost every protagonist in the Metal Gear saga bears a burden, and seeks atonement for past sins, or fights to settle a score. From Naomi, who cannot forgive herself for dire inventions (particularly the Foxdie virus) ,to Ocelot and Eva, who strive to bring an end to The Patriots ( organization they helped to create) , to Raiden, who is haunted by memories of life as a child soldier, it is a desire for redemption that drives the events of Metal Gear Solid 4.

 

After Arsenal Gear runs aground on Manhattan Island in 2009 , the international community unites in its condemnation of the United States Government. To address the growing fear of powerful state –run armies being used to satisfy questionable political agendas, it is deemed safer to entrust Private Military Companies (PMCs) with a greater degree of control in future conflicts . Technically bereft of ideology or motive beyond a drive to increase profitability , and held to account by both shareholders and public opinion, the meteoric growth of these corporations leads to an unforeseen development : the “ war-economy “ , where all aspects of armed conflict ( from weapons R&D and manufacture. To the salaries paid to individual mercenaries ) become an integral dynamo that drives global financial markets. War, in short , becomes the key to prosperity and growth .

 

The mechanism that facilitates the growth of the war economy is called Sons of the Patriots (SOP): a secured system of real-time battlefield control . All soldiers and PMC mercenaries under its watchful eye are injected with nanomachines that identify each individual , monitoring and essentially controlling their behavior, interacting with a host’s metabolism and manipulating body chemistry to vastly improve combat ability. Controlled by a central AI , these nanomachines are used to engender a “combat high” to suppress natural human instincts , negating potential anxiety ,apprehension or remorse as soldiers engage their opponents . Other benefits include heightened awareness and improved teamwork ; on a strategic level. Sop is the culmination of every military tactician’s most feverish dreams.

 

An additional application of the system is to restrict the use of military hardware, from small arms to vehicles , to approved subjects only. Combatants can only use a weapon if their ID authorizes them to do so ; the Central AI ensures that a soldier ‘s rifle is deactivated in the hands of any other individual, even his colleagues. Throughout the world, virtually all weapons – both previously existing and newly manufactured – are modified or designed for exclusive use with SOP system.

 

On a micro level. SOP breeds a new generation of more compliant, peerlessly efficient soldiers ; on a macro-level , military officials can monitor and instantly react to developments on the battlefield . This is the realization of the “clean” conflict ideal , a perceived end to human rights violations , whereby weapons can be deactivated ( or soldiers restrained on a biological level) to prevent acts of barbarity. Another attraction for governments is that conflicts fought by PMC contractors are cheaper , and remove the states to maintain large standing armies.

A side-effect of the “war economy” , however, is that armed conflict becomes a business like any other .The PMC corporations, unfettered by nationalist sentiment or political dogma, begin to offer their services to the highest bidder:

Be that nation state, guerilla movement or even terrorist faction. By 2014 , PMCs control more than half of the world’s combined military forces.

 

As the story of Metal Gear Solid 4 begins, five PMC corporation , each one a multinational with unprecedented influence in world affairs , dominate their shared marketplace. However , all five are controlled by a single parent company,Outer Heaven , whose principle director is none other than Liquid ocelot : Ocelot possessed by Liquid.

 

After the story of Metal Gear solid 2 ended , Snake and Otacon located Olga Gurlukovich’s daughter ,Sunny, and rescued her from the clutches of The Patriots. This fragile prodigy now lives with them permanently abroad their aircraft, the Nomad , where she contributes her extraordinary computer skills (and, it soon becomes apparent , rather less miraculous culinary ability ).

 

Metal Gear Solid 4 begins as Roy Campbell, now retired , contacts a prematurely ageing Snake to request Snake to request that he undertake a new mission , Unusually , this will not be under the mandate of a specific organization or government , but merely for the greater good. It appears that Liquid Ocelot is planning to use five PMCs under his control to launch an insurrection; Snake’s mission eliminate him before this can happen. The manhunt begins in the Middle east , Liquid Ocelot ‘s last known location . Arriving in a warzone where PMC forces battle against a local guerilla faction , he meets Drebin: a dealer of ”laundered “ weapons with no fixed ID codes, and therefore usable by anyone. Drebin injects Snake with suppressive nanomachines to negate the effect of older models introduced into his system many years previously.

 

As he stealthily progress through the conflict zone, Snake meets his designated contacts : Rat Patrol Team 01 , a special forces unit commissioned to monitor and report on the battlefield activities of PMCs . The leader of this unit is none other than Meryl, daughter of Campbell , who assisted Snake during the Shadow Moses Incident . She’s accompanied by three men , including Johnny (AKA Akiba ) , famous for his gastrointestinal adventures through out the Metal Gear series . Meryl and her team are on a mission to asses the danger that a potential insurrection by Liquid Ocelot could represent.

 

When Snake locates Liquid Ocelot, he attempts to line up a clear shot,

But is interrupted as the surrounding soldiers are suddenly subjected to enormous pain and confusion. Struggling through his sobbing, convulsing, agonized crowd , Snake also falls afoul of the mysterious effect , missing his opportunity to assassinate Liquid Ocelot , and only barely noticing the presence of Naomi Hunter at Liquid’s side before losing consciousness. When he awakes abroad the Nomad , Otacon reveals that he has received an encrypted message from Noami. In it , she reveals that she has been taken prisoner by Liquid Ocelot , and is being forced to work on SOP System.

 

Snake travels to South America and infiltrates the compound where Naomi is detained . When the two meet, Snake learns the true nature of the inexplicable

Conclusion of events in the Middle East. Rather than manipulating the nanomachines within each soldier’s body (as initially assumed). Liquid Ocelot had simply deactivated them. Freed from the influence from these microscopic yet powerful devices , the soldiers were instantly subjected to the full force of the psychological and physiological effects that SOP System had previously repressed. It might take a war veteran a lifetime to barely come to terms with their role in a conflict. Stress , pain, remorse, fear , revulsions , anger, and more : all these extremes of feeling were unleashed within a second at Liquid’s command , suffocating the soldier’s minds and causing them to cease to function beyond a basic animal level. The SOP System, in essence, operates as prophylactic .Beyond this Barrier , the blood , brain , and flesh of each subject remembers and stores every detail . Outwardly the very epitome of calm, capable professionalism , the biological reality for each soldier was anything but sanguine – the utilitarian SOP System being designed to repress effects , not address causes.

 

Perplexed by Snake’s vulnerability to this phenomena – as someone who should lie outside the command of the SOP system- and his premature ageing . Naomi takes a blood sample and performs a battery of test on the veteran soldier . From this , Snake learns a dizzying barrage of revelations. Firstly , his accelerated ageing is not a side-effect of FOXDIE , but biological inevitability . The Les Enfants Terribles project created copies of the greatest soldier in the world. What might happen if the genetic material fell into enemy hands? For that reason , Snake was designed to be sterile and fast ageing . By Naomi’s calculations , he has little more than six months to live.

 

Moreover , this ageing process is causing the FOXDIE virus to mutate . Naomi estimates that this previously target –specific, weapons- grade nanovirus might begin infecting ordinary humans within three months. After a life of fighting of mass destruction , and those who might seek to wield them, the irony does not escape Snake. Furthermore, Naomi detects a new strain of Foxdie, clearly a recent introduction into his system .

 

Snake understands that Liquid Ocelot ‘ s plan isn’t to destroy the “Sons of The Patriots” system ,a s doing so would cause the collapse of his own army. Instead , his objective – dubbed “Guns of the Patriots” – is to gain sole control of the system , leaving him with the only valid army in the world . Liquid Ocelot performs a second SOP “ experiment” , causing the same effects witnessed in the Middle East . In the confusion , Snake and Naomi escapes with the assistance of Raiden , now evidently a cybernetic hybrid much like Gray Fox before him . The incredible battle takes a terrible toll on the white-haired warrior .Leaking white blood from countless wounds , Barely clinging to life , Raiden implores Snake to seek out Big Mama in Eastern Europe.

As the Nomad travels to its next destination, Sunny and Naomi develop a close (and, in the context of the story , rather pivotal ) bond as we learn more about Liquid Ocelot’s plans. In order to take control of Sons of the Patriots , he needs to obtain Big Boss’s genetic code and biometric data : the keys to the virtual castle. The Two disruptions of SOP in the Middle East and South America had been Liquid Ocelot’s attempts to use code and data derived from Liquid (through his replacement arm ) and then Solid Snake (from the tests performed by Naomi). The unsatisfactory results were the consequence of Liquid and Solid Snake’s status as incomplete clones – the modifications (infertility, short life span) common to the brothers actually caused both attempts to fail, as only Solidus was an authentic clone of his “father”.

 

To realize his goal , Liquid ocelot needs to locate Big Boss’s body , apparently maintained in an artificial coma as a “biomort” , at a secret location . Big Mama currently acts as its caretaker – and , as Naomi divulges , their enemies know this , and are already en route..

 

In Eastern Europe , Snake trails a member of the local resistance for forces and enters Big Mama’s hideout . he discovers that she is in fact Eva, one of the Patriot founders who first me Big Boss (then Naked Snake) while working as a Chinese spy over half a century before . Eva explains that Liquid Ocelot is waging a war to eliminate Major Zero , and that The Patriots are attempting to exert total control via a system of AI programs : GW (believed defunct), TJ ,AL and TR (the initials of the four American presidents represented on Mount Rushmore) , all controlled by JD (“ John Doe”) , the master AI . Following the neutralization of GW on the BIG Shell in 2009 , these AI programs continued to monitor and filter the flow of information through world networks . From politics to finance , laws to social values and , latterly , the war economy , nothing escapes the attention of these indefatigable sentinels . However , GW was merely “ fragmented” by Emma Emmerich’s digital attack , and is now held by Liquid Ocelot. By using GW conjunction with the data derived from Big Boss’s body , Liquid Ocelot will have everything he needs to cross otherwise impenetrable security barriers and take control of The Patriot’s System.

 

Despite Snake and Eva’s best efforts, Liquid Ocelot succeeds in obtaining Big Boss’s body , which is subsequently consumed by fire. Meryl’s armed intervention with a large force of soldiers is for naught ; taking control of SOP , Liquid Ocelot locks the weapons of his would- be captors ( and , for that matter, of all troops other than his own , worldwide). Few survive the resultant carnage as even vehicles fail to respond to the frantic interactions of their operators, and Liquid Ocelot calmly departs the scene of this grizzly , one-sided melee.

 

Liquid Ocelot’s control of the system is still limited , though: to fulfill his objectives , he must destroy JD with sufficiently powerful weapon . With WMDs still locked away by the master AI , he travels to Shadow Moses to retrieve the rail gun from the remains of Metal Gear Rex : the one weapon outside of the system and within the grasp capable of destroying his intended target .With JD destroyed , control of The Patriots system would revert to GW- and therefore , Liquid Ocelot.

 

In hot pursuit, Snake infiltrates Shadow Moses as he did nine years before ,

But on finding REX- still lying as Snake had left it so many years before – he discovers that its rail gun has already been removed . Snake and his companions therefore had no choice but to infiltrate Outer Haven , an Arsenal Gear –style vessel that Liquid Ocelot had previously seized from The Patriots .Only by destroying Outer Haven’s central server , home to GW , can Snake prevent his adversary from achieving his goal.

 

After a withering series of ordeals , an exhausted Snake escorts Metal Gear Mk.III to Outer Haven’s server room and enables Otacon to upload the virus initially developed by Naomi , and later completed by Sunny . Surprisingly ,

Though , the virus does not focus exclusively on GW , and spreads to the rest of the System, even affecting the central AI,JD. Snake lies gravely wounded , fatigued beyond rational measure , alive through sheer brute force of will,

He witnesses a recording hidden in the virus code by Naomi. In It , she reveals that she designed her virus to destroy all of the AI programs. The Patriots , she explains , were planning to extend their control network to govern not just soldiers , but all mankind.

 

In his final confrontation with Liquid Ocelot , Snake learns that it was this outcome that his opponent had sought from the very beginning: to release mankind from the twisted auspices of The Patriots , and the prison of their rational , micro-managed world. Liquid Ocelot dies after contracting the new FOXDIE virus carried by Snake; the AI’s created by The Patriots are also disabled, but not in the way that anyone could have envisaged . In a touch of precocious genius , Sunny had altered the virus to destroy the control system , yet leave all processes that administer vital elements of society’s infrastructure ( energy, transportation , communications , at al) intact . With the death of Major Zero and the AI programs that were to succeed him, The Patriots – and their ideals of standardization and social control – are no more.

 

 

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Here it ends the 4 parts from the guide book :P . I hope you guys enjoy reading it. :(

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