
At the climax of the mission, Snake discovered that his best friend Gray Fox had been working for Big Boss, and was left haunted by the revelation that Big Boss was his real father. Six years have passed since Solid Snake, a special covert operative working for the United States military as a member of their FOXHOUND unit, infiltrated Zanzibar Land and assassinated the legendary soldier-turned-terrorist Big Boss. To many players' surprise, it is not the first game in the Metal Gear series: The original two MSX2 games in the series ( Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake) were never released in North America note until 2006, when they were included in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (aside from a drastically altered Nintendo Entertainment System version of the former and an unrelated sequel titled Snake's Revenge), so Metal Gear Solid was the first proper game in the series that most people in the West played, and the Metal Gear Solid moniker carried on to the rest of the series, aside from a few spinoffs. With its cinematic style and fusion of gripping play mechanics with an equally gripping storyline, it shifted the acceptable degree of Story to Gameplay Ratio, perhaps irrevocably, while also single-handedly popularizing the Stealth-Based Game. It was one of the first 3D stealth games, having debuted at the 1996 Tokyo Game Show and E3 1997, before eventually releasing in 1998.

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth action game released by Konami for the PlayStation. Roy Campbell: As usual, this is a one-man infiltration mission.Ĭampbell: Yes.
