Metal Gear Solid

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1 Introduction
- 1.1 What is Metal Gear?
- 1.2 Time Line
2 Games
3 Characters

[edit] Introduction

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The Metal Gear series are a collection of stealth orientated video games created by Hideo Kojima published by his favourite group, Konami. The game orientates around the operative Solid Snake who must ultimatley find out by the new weapon, Metal Gear.

The games are based in the present, the near future and the past and contain a great mixture of all out combat and stealth espionage, the settings allow certain rules to be changed so the greatest of sneakers can enable an option to have a Game Over when Solid Snake has been spotted.

[edit] What is Metal Gear?

Metal Gear, the advanced weapon, is tougher than a tank and allows easy transportation, it's goal is to allow a nuclear strike anywhere in the world with no warning.

This would mean that a country or nation could launch nuclear arms with no fear of a strike being sent back. As the games advance through time, the technology of the Metal Gear advances allowing updated version to be created, e.g. Metal Gear REX and Metal Gear RAY.

[edit] Time Line

As the game is based throughout many years and tells a story of powers through these years, there is a general timeline of important events.

Beginning of the 20th Century - Reunion of the "Committee of Wise Men" Foundation of a group called The Philosophers.
1914 - First World War
1939 - Second World War
1945 - End of the Second World War, beginning of the Cold War
1950 - Korean War
1957 - USSR launch of Sputnik I
1961 - Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1964 - China successfully concludes it's first tests of nuclear weaponry
1964 - Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater takes place
1964 - Khrushchev leaves his position. Brezhev becomes Party First Secretary
1965 - Sigint joins ARPA and participates in the development of the ARPAnext (1969)
1968 - Agent Eva disappears
1969 - Major Zero suspends FOX
1970 - The United States recieves half of The Philosophers Legacy. The American branch of the Philosophers is renamed The Patriots; events in MGS: Portable Ops
1971 - Big Boss founds FOXHOUND
1972 - Start of the project, Les Enfants Terribles
1980's - Big Boss battles in various Arfican civil wars and becomes a hero
1991 - Gulf War. The American army injects their troops with a "Fight Gene", obtained by the study of Big Boss. (They become Genome Soldiers) The side effects of these injections are disguised as Gulf War Syndrome.
1993 - 03/01/1993 -Signing the START2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) contract. Russia and America disarm between 3,000 and 3,500 nuclear warheads.
1995 - Incidents of Outer Heaven: Solid Snake defeats Big Boss and destroys Metal Gear
1997 - 02/07/1997 -First subcritical test on the nuclear test area in Nevada
1999 - Zanzibar crisis: Solid Snake defeats Gray Fox, kills Big Boss and destroys Metal Gear, he then decides to retire in the solitude of Alaska
2000 - Millenium Bug: the Patriots spread a data filter worldwide, disguised as a software fix to impede the impact of the flaws in various computer systems.
2005 - George Sears resigns as President. He is then replaced by James Johnson.
2006 - Solid Snake and Otacon found Philanthropy
2007 - Olga Gurlukovich gives birth to a child, who is taken away by the Patriots
2007 - The Tanker, Discovery is destroyed
2009 - The Big Shell crisis
2009+ - Events of Metal Gear Solid 4

[edit] Games

There are official and unofficial versions of the game, these consist of:

Because the games has proven to be so popular with it's fans, Special Editions have been released, housing improvements to the games and new levels/content.