Metal Gear Solid 4 Notes

We see Snake in a suit standing in a graveyard. He is smoking a cigarette and looking at one particular headstone. He takes out a gun and looks at it, loading and cocking it. He kneels in front of the grave and the camera pans up as he appears to be about to shoot himself.
There are little cut scenes that cut in from time to time if you wait on the title screen. Little adverts. A huge preying mantis robot chasing a man on a motorbike through a city and eventually killing him. This seems to be what passes as house security in this future.
I choose Solid Normal.
Another cut scene, a game show. Modelled on who wants to be a millionaire.The contestant chooses the wrong multiple choice. Seems to be there to illustrate that the pmc employs a force of soldiers bigger than the population of Mexico.
Another advert with scantily clad ladies being moved around by a huge octopus with a skull face.
Now we are into the game proper.Middle eastern town, blasted by bombs. Carrion birds picking at the remains.Slow and ponderous music with credits.We see trucks filled with soldiers heading through the town.Snake's voice over. War has changed, it's a machine a business. Nanomachines and hi tech guns that are tagged to one soldier. Everything is controlled, by who?Snake is amongst the soliders, they get to their destination and start fighting in a town. The soldiers that Snake is with seem to be losing to the defenders. Snipers pick them off with ease.we get control of Snake for a few seconds long enough to crawl under a truck and then the cut scene kicks back in.This is all using the ingame engine.We watch snake dodge through the carnage and then get control again.Movement with left analogue, camera with right. X makes Snake dive and roll when in motion or go into a crouch or prone when standing still. Circle is reload. Triangle makes him go into cover when you are close to a wall.Snake has a knife, holding L1 readies it and L1 stabs, L2 uses it's electric stun facility.L2 brings up the inventory window for health packs etc.Back to the cut scene after a few more paces. The soldiers are starting to make some progress at awful cost of lives. The defenders start to retreat as we hear strange mechanical beast roaring noises. The huge walker tank things show up and start killing everyone.We get control again and have to avoid them.Once we get to another certain point on the map we trigger the cut scene again. We watch snake avoid the walkers and see his camouflage suit in action. Taking on the apprearance of the walls to blend in. The walkers think Snake is hiding in a box and crush it only to crush watermelons. Snake is left alone in the ruins.Snake picks up a gun and walks off.
Cut sceneSnake in the graveyard in his suit, three days earlier.A helicopter comes down and Otacon comes out to talk to Snake.Snake asks if there has been any progress into halting his rapid aging. Otacon can't help and it seems there is only a year left for Snake.He talks about foxdie.There is mention of Naomi.In the helicopter there is someone named the Colonel.The Colonel tells Snake that he has tracked Liquid down in the Middle East and that he is about to make his move.
Short cut scene of someone frying an egg and singing a song about numbers.
Now we are in Act 1 Liquid Sun.Back to Snake in the ruins. Octacon tells us about the lizards which he has just avoided.Otacon tells us about the mark II which is a little mobile drone.Otacon tells Snake to go and find the Mark II which is just up ahead.We are told about the octocamo suit, which will change to the colour of our background if we stay still next to something.The x button makes us crouch or go prone if we use it when standing still.Soldiers are patrolling the area and we must sneak past them.neither side is our enemy in this fight and we should avoid combat if at all possible.I manage to sneak past the guards after about three times getting it wrong and getting shot up.Another area with some sneaking is next.We can hide in lockers and dumpsters to avoid the enemy. I stun a guard with my knife and leave him in the open, when other guards find them we have a hundred seconds of a caution where the guards are on high alert and run around looking for you. I hide in the dumpster for the time.If they see you an alert is sounded and the guards come hunting and attacking you.
getting to the designated point on the map starts a cut scene. We meet the mark iiOtacon gives us the solid eye which gives us night vision. otacon also gives us a tranquiliser gun and silenced pistol.I run around tranquilsing people on both sides in the street battle outside. It's fun but silly.I run through some cave tunnels and some cellars full of wounded soldiers. I tranqilise everyone I meet. Seems the easiest option. They did suggest you could play the game your own way.I run out of tranquiliser bullets and just shoot them instead.We get to the map destination and a cut scene.We meet Drebin, who is our gun launderer. The weapons that we pick up can be sold to Drebin.Drebin will then deactivate the nanotech which makes them non-functional. After a call with Otacon we decide to use his services.Drebin sticks us with new nano-machines which allow us to use his guns.Otacon calls us again, lectures us on how much the economy depends on war.Tells us about the war price, which basically means that as the fighting gets more intense in an area the price of items in the area goes up with it.we have to negotiate a maze through a bombed building.We see a little cut scene of a soldier having a crap inside a barrell. One of the rival soldiers finds him and he runs off with his trousers around his knees. Personally I would have shot him, and farting jokes seem fairly off kilter with the tone of the rest of the game.We have to progress through a more of the town. There is a road block with a tank which we can mortar using a handily placed mortar emplacement. we then have to negotiate snipers etc to progress to the map destination.We are now inside the advent palace which seems to be a hotel.We have to make our way through the maze like deserted palace to the top floor.A new cut scene.A rookie pulls a gun on us but snake easily disarms him. Other team members appear covering snake and Snake realises that it's Meryl, someone from his past. She is surprised to see he has aged so much.She introduces us to rat patrol. Government inspectors of PMC's.Yet more body function jokes.Meryl tells us that liquid is in the area, a woman is with him.She thinks that Snake is here to kill Liquid, he denies it.Meryl tells us about the nanomachines and all the data that they generate and send to an a.i. at headquarters.The system also allows for overuling of weapons which means that if someone betrays someone they can stop them from using their weapons.The system is called sons of the patriots.looks like Liquid is going to take control of the system and then he will control all weapons.There is a bit of introduction to the rest for the rat patrol gang. Meryl and Snake have history, Meryl fancies him and Snake is a bit touchy about now being aged enough to be her grandad.The Rookie akiba has botched up again and seems that Liquid personal guard soldiers are on the way. They are armoured jumping creations of genetic engineering and techno tinkering called frogs.We get control again and start fighting with the Frogs. We move through the floors of the building with the four a.i. teams assisting. Although you do most of the shooting they do help. Most importantly they don't get in the way too much.There is a little bit where a flash grenade goes off and Akiba is knocked out. At the ground floor the frogs drive a digger through the wall to make an entrance to get to you.The team escape jumping down a lift shaft.There is a cut scene to illustrate the effectiveness of the nanomachine connection between the rat patrol members as they shoot a bunch of attacking frogs as one fluid unit.Snake is told where liquids camp might be. Meryl and her team go off leaving him alone again.Otacon and Snake discuss how it was better in the old days when people had to work to gain abilities.We get out of the basement back onto the streets, the two pmc's are at it still. I help the lower tech one out as they drive a tank along the street, getting to the end of the street taking out some of the hightech pmc soliders along the way.A cut scene shows the low tech pmc driving a bulldozer through barricades.The bulldozer stops short and a metallic robot big cat is stopping it. Also a female Doctor Octopus rip off from Spiderman and two jet pac flying enemies turn up. They are shown massacaring the low tech Pmc soldiers. Snake seems to know these enemies, he does nothing to aid the Pmc as he sees that he is heavily outnumbered.I move along the street taking out pmc soliders with the tranquiliser gun and then get to another destination point moving through the pmc camp.Cut sceneWe see Snake sneaking further into the camp and see Liquid Ocelot. Meryl is there as well. She speaks to snake using the communication radio and tells him she will not stop him for assassinating Liquid but won't help him either.Liquid sees Snake and tells someone on a radio to activate it.Everyone starts clutching their heads in pain, vomiting and frothing at the mouth. Soliders start attacking each other. Even Snake is affected.The woman who is helping Liquid comes down to snake and injects herslef with something. She then leaves Snake. Liquid and the woman leave by helicopter. The Ghecko's then come in to finish everyone off. Akiba seems unaffected, no Nanomachines? He takes Snake out of the area. That seems to be the end of Act 1.
Act 2 Solid SunThe woman with Liquid is called Naomi who is responsible for developing the original nanomachines, and also for injecting Snake with Foxdie, which i presume is the cause of his premature ageing. Namoi sends Otacon a message telling him the Liquid is using the nanomachines to take control of the Sons of the Patriot system that now governs and regulates all soldiers and weapons in the world. With control of that he will be in a position of extreme power. The Patriots are now in direct conflict with Liquid. We see a little girl called Sonny tending to Otacon and snake, she seems gifted with computers, but not cooking. The colonel who it seems is named campbell appears on a video screen call and tells Snake that he should go after Naomi and rescue her from Liquid. Seems she is being held in South America. We see Snake approach the area where Naomi is being held. He watches as the Octopus woman attacks some soliders and a character called Vamp appears and calls her off. Seems like they know that Snake is on the way as the octopus woman morphs her face into that of Snake.
We get control of Snake again and have to sneak through a village. I make a huge pigs ear of it and just plow through using the tranq gun.
At the end point of the mission the colonel calls and tells us that a woman called Rosemary is going to be our mission counsellor. Seems that mental health of soldiers is taken very seriously in the future to make sure that the solider is efficient.Snake remembers Rose as being involved with Raiden. Campbell tells Snake that Raiden has vanished and he moved in on Rose. Meryl is Campbells Daughter and is disgusted with him about this, Snake also seems to disapprove.
Back to sneaking around the jungle.I am not really that good at sneaking around and not being seen in this game.
Snake gets a call from who he thinks sounds like Jack/Raiden. Seems he is here looking out for us.
Back to the sneaking or lack of it in my case. There seems to be little penalty for not sneaking, I can simply run for it and make it to the points on the map where I need to go to.
Drebin turns up and tells us about the B&B corp, Beauty and the beast corp. These seem to be the ones we have seen earlier, panther, octopus and flying monsters. They are all females who suffered post traumatic stress disorder really badly. They were taken and turned into monsters by someone.They are raging raven, Laughing octopus, Screaming mantis and Crying Wolf together they comprise Snakehound unit.Drebin tells Snake that the patriot system is run by an a.i.
We move on a little then get another call from Jack, who says he is close by. Snake calls Rose and tells her that Jack is around. She tells Snake that Jack was distant with her long before he vanished.I manage to get through an area without raising the alert this time. I have learned that you can avoid detection much more if you make Snake go prone.In the next area the rebels PMC drive a bulldozer through the compound gates giving us an easy way in.The battle is going on between the two PMC's as we try and sneak in.I manage to sneak into the mansion house, inside it's pretty deserted. I manage to get to the destination point fairly easily.
Snake find Naomi, she is talking on the phone and when she stops she nearly collapses. She injects herself with the same syringe we saw her with earlier. Snake comes in and she tells him what is going on.SOP can apparently control people's minds. The horrors of war are negated by the system, and the solidiers feel like they are playing a video game rather than killing real human beings. What liquid did earlier was disconnect the soldiers from the mental control and let the horror hit home instantly.Naomi wants to examine Snake to work out why he was affected when he shouldn't have been.Naomi is overcome at Snake's aged physical condition when he strips off. Snake also sneaks a look up her skirt.Naomi scans him and tells him that it isn't anything other than the way he was designed that is causing the rapid ageing. Snake was genetically designed to live to a certain age then rapidly die, also he was incapable of reproduction.Naomi gives him six months to live, and even worse this isn't due to the ageing, it's due to the breakdown of the biological weapon called foxdie in his system. The problem is that the original foxdie started out as a virus that was carried by Snake unwittingly and only harmed specific targets that he came into contact with. Once the foxdie breaks down it will attack everyone making Snake a typhiod Mary that will infect everyone he comes into contact with.Snake is becoming a doomsday device himself, Naomi points out the irony.Naomi gives us shots to help with the symptoms.She tells us that someone is watching her and that is why she can't leave. She tells Snake that Liquid can't destroy the patriot system as it would only bring down his own army from within. He now wants to take control of the system from the Patriots and use it against them.As she tells us this Laughing octopus turns up with soldiers, who spirit away Naomi and then come for Snake. We have to kill a certain amount of frogs and then fight with Laughing Octopus.She is a right pain in the ass. She takes on many forms and hiding places, Naomi, a dead guard on the ground, the shape of a painting on the wall, part of the scanner. Basically you have to go around finding her and shooting her. She can roll up into a ball and kill you fairly quickly doing that, she also shoots and stuns you with electricity.She blows out a cloud of ink to hide in and lets out heat seeking sticky bombs as well.Eventually I bring her health down. She shed's her tentacles and suit and indeed is a beauty. She is then named laughing beauty and she basically walks at you like a zombie. You have to basically do a mercy killing. After you kill her Drebin calls, gives you intel on the octocamo face mask you take from Laughing Octopus and then tells you her history, which is colourful and sad, to suggest why she was so unhinged.Raiden then calls and tells Snake to track Naomi. He gives us some spiel about tracking.which seems to essentially be telling you to use the night vision to see her footprints.The problem here is that you have a big area littered with footprints, it's very hard to see which are Naomi's though she seems to always be being dragged along so following the groups of footprints wins out in the end.I found a little easter egg in this area, a random bunch of metal plaques which seems to be a chinese theatre style handprints in the concrete for the game development team.Cut scenes show that Vamp is loading Naomi into a helicopter.Snake shoots vamp sniper style right between the eyes. He does not die and orders the same weapon used as earlier. Snake and all the troops start convulsing again, the Ghecko's arrive to mop up. Naomi shouts too Snake as Vamp passes out, saying he needs a little nap.Naomi tells Snake to use the injector she gave him. Snake does and recovers, however the Ghecko's start attacking. Drebin turns up in his APC and takes one of them out and starts shooting at the other. Naomi jumps from the helicopter to the top of Drebin's APC and Snake gets her aboard. Drebin makes a break for it with everyone in the jeep.We get an on rails sequence where we are shooting solider,s ghecko's and tanks with the roof mounted gun on Drebins APC.It's quite fun and as usual broken up with cinematic sequences to build the tension.Drebin ends up crashing the APC in the village. The Ghecko's are closing in. Snake and Naomi get out and start making a run for it. Raiden shows up and an grand cyber ninja style takes out a horde of Ghecko's using only his sword.Otacon sends a helicopter to the market square for Snake.We have a short sequence where we have to run through a crowded market with Ghecko's rampaging through it. Then we get to the helicopter and watch Otacon ogle Naomi.Otacon lifts off the helicopter with Snake and Naomi on board.We watch as Vamp comes after Raiden who is tethered by four Ghecko's. Snake frees one of his arms with a shot and a huge fight starts with Vamp and Raiden. Very cinematic and brutal. Both of them taking horrendous wounds and shrugging them off as if they were nothing. Vamp eventually goes down but it doesn't seem like he is actually dead. Raiden makes a break for the helicopter as he is severely hurt and loads more Ghecko's are arriving.On the helicopter Naomi tells Snake that she is responsible for vamp and that it is nano machines that heal his wounds in seconds and keep him alive.Raiden has lots too much blood and needs a transfusion of atrificial blood to keep him alive.End of Act 2
Act 3 Third SunBack to the flying base plane of Otacon. Sunny and Naomi bond over making eggs.Big boss's genetic code and actual physical body are needed by Liquid to gain access to the SOP system. It turns out from the two previous times that the system knows that it isn't a genuine command and locks out Liquids and then Snakes DNA from changing the system. Seems they are not close enough of a genetic match despite being cloned from Big boss.Liquid is now going after Big Boss's body which although brain dead is being held on life support somewhere in europe. Raiden is dying for want of a dialysis scrubbing of his blood. Which is healing him but can't filter out the toxins from the process due to losing too much blood in the first place. Coincidently at the same place as Big Boss they have the technology to dialyse and transfuse Raiden.There is a long seduction scene where Naomi eventually gets into bed with Otacon, she also appears to be going to do something with a usb stick necklace that she wears, though she seems to stop short of actually doing it.Snake uses facecamo to disguise himself and Meryl helps him bypass a checkpoint at the train station.Meryl tells Snake to stay out of the way as she has a force in place to take out Liquid.Snake of course knows that Meryls system will fail if she tries to get Liquid.On the streets we are to find resitance members who will lead us to Big Mama.We can use a new gadget to intercept PMC communications.We basically have to sneak through the streets following lone resistance members as they make there way to their base. The resistence men stop for guards and I tranq them and drag them into the shadows, this makes the resistance men move on. The resistance fighter changes into a PMC soldier uniform for part of the way. Eventually we get to the base.Snake takes umbrage at being called ancient makes him show off and attack Big Mama's guards.She tells Snake that she is his mother in as much as she gave birth to him.She tells Snake that Zero created the patriots and the group consisted of Big Mama and Big Boss, also someone called Paramedic.Big Boss and Zero eventually fell out and had a parting of ways. However Big Boss was the face of the Patriots, so Zero cloned Big Boss and produced Snake and Liquid.Zero became increasingly powerful in the digital age and the Patriot a.i. system with him.The boss is a female character who Zero and Big boss fought over the interpretation of her philosophies.The history of the whole metal gear saga is being explained here. It's going far too fast to take in.Out in the churchyard Big Mama shows Snake the body of Big boss, a limbless torso kept alive by machines held in a van.Three small spheres with three arms apiece show up and Big Mama shoots them, Liquid's spy devices.The soldiers that fight with Big mama are the orphans she has managed to keep out of becoming PMC child soliders.There is a lecture here about FPS games being virtual training for children to become good soliders in later life.The vans and motorbikes move out now that Liquid is on the way.Big Mama and Snake take an old triumph motorbike. We are again on rails shooting from the back of the bike. We are trying to stay alive and protect the van with Big Boss's body inside.The flying boss turns up along with a horde of remote control flying weapons.The van is blown off the road, Snake and Big Mama crash, Big Mama is impaled on a spike.Snake goes off to fight the flying boss.The boss's name is Raging raven.She circles around the tower you are in shooting, you basically have to avoid and shoot.When you take down her health a cut scene starts.She is like a black machine angel of death, he armour falls off and leaves a beautiful raven haired woman with a nanosuit that looks like burnt log in a fire. She slowy transforms and is wearing the same skin tight suit that laughing beauty wore. We get control again and she starts walking towards us.Snake grabs her grenade launcher.Drebin calls again, this seems to be a pattern after each boss battle.He tells us the history of Raging Raven, she was a child imprisoned by an army, left to die tied up and eaten by ravens. She escaped, lost her mind and became a killing machine.Snake goes back to Big Mama, they both get away into the sewers, however one of Liquid spy scarabs has spotted them going into the manhole.Snake and Big Mama walk out of the sewers and find Liquid sitting on a bench waiting for them. Snake is about to attack him when loads of frogs turn up. Vamp is on a waiting boat and Naomi is with him, seems she has betrayed them. Liquid tells Snake that one of the six Patriot a.i. cores which was thought to have been destroyed by a worm virus is still going and under his control. If Liquid destroys the main core named JD his Gw core can take over the rest allowing him complete control. Snake and Liquid fight and basically Liquid kicks snakes ass. They leave a wounded Snake and a Dying Big Mama alone and go off to complete their master plan now that they have Big Boss's body and the access code it represents.Liquid sets off in his boat, suddenly Meryl springs her trap, helicopters, boats and jeeps all come out and surround Liquid's one boat.Liquid of course springs his surprises, Their guns don't work when they try and shoot and he starts making everyone convulse and die. Liquid knocks the helicopter from the sky as they fail to respond to their pilots commands. Liquid's men shoot up the convulsing soldiers and put a rocket into Meryls boat. Akiba saves Meryl bby jumping over the side, Liquid throws big boss onto the boat to burn in the fire and Big Mama jumps into the fire to try and save the corpse of big boss. Snake saves her but big boss burns.Liquid makes his exit thinking that Snake and Big mama are burning in the fire.Meryl is saved by Akiba, they kiss after a prolonged cpr sequence.Snake holds Big Mama as she dies in his arms, she tells him that for darkness to exist there must be light, for darkness to be destroyed the light must go out too. Seems Snake will have to die as well as liquid, this we know due to his foxdie and premature ageing anyway.Drebin comes to collect Snake and take him back to Otacon.
Act 4 Twin SunsThe five a.i's in the patriot system all answer to JD in a hierarchy system. GW was seemingly destroyed. GW has been ressurected by Liquid, this means that it is a blindspot to JD. This is how Liquid gets control of the system. If Liquid can destroy JD physically then GW will slip up the hierarchy to the top putting him in total control.Liquid can't control any nukes just now but he plans to use the rail gun on Metal gear rex to destroy JD which is housed on a satellite in orbit.Rex is at Shadow Moses so that looks like the next stop. Snake is half dead and Raiden is in no fit state to do anything. Raiden tries hard to get up, and act like a stroppy teenager.Mei Ling turns up on video call and tells the gang that Liquid is heading for Shadow Moses.She will meet us their in her ship, which handily was never part of the system.Shadow Moses is an Alaskan island. There is a little section from one of the previous games, possibly Metal Gear Solid 1.Snake wakes from this as if it was a recurring dream he has been having.When we land at Shadow Moses we have to sneak past some Gecko's and then we are into a third generation onwards version of the map we just played on in Metal Gear Solid 1. I am sure this is a nostaliga trip for the fans.The opponents here are scarabs and Gecko's no human soliders, all automated defences.We get into an area with a huge door that is locked. Otacon wants us to go to his old office where he can get security to open the door. There is some dialogue between Snake and Otacon as they reminisce about the past. They could almost be talking about the game design process over 9 years, but they aren't, are they?The door is now open and we get control back.At the door it takes about two minutes for Otacon to open the door using the Mark 2. A Gecko turns up and we have to avoid it and distract it from shooting up the mark 2 for the two minutes then get through the door to progress.Out in the snow I find a sniper rifle. Crying Wolf turns up, the panther like exoskeleton houses a female driver who opens the top of the machine to use a rail gun on Snake.Loads of Frogs attack as well, we are in a large open area with towers and a blizzard making things hard.Eventually I take her down, using a combination of hiding under a truck until all the frogs are gone, then using the sniper rifle and the p90 to kill her.She comes out of her exoskeleton and does the mad bit then you get to plug her as she walks at you like a zombie.Of course Drebin calls, you get a railgun for free.The girl was a refugee of war fleeing with her brother a baby. They were trapped by an enemy patrol and hid, the baby started crying so she smothered him to keep him quiet and accidently killed him. She wandered around carrying the childs corpse for months, then was taken in at a refugee camp. Tormented by the sound of babies crying she killed them all, blaming a ghostly wolf that was following her.The wolf comes in not so ghostly form and carries away her body.As we are about to go into the next area Otacon calls and tells us to change to disc 2, ha ha very funny.In the next area we have more sneaking, again making a pigs ear of it has no effect, you only have to run through the chaos to the destination.We find the broken down Rex, the railgun has been removed. Vamp and Naomi show up, Naomi is cuddling up to Vamp as if she is his lover.We have to fight Vamp while Otacon tries to get Rex online.Vamp is self healing in a wolverine kind of way. So I spend ages and a fortune in ammo shooting him and having him get back up.I can't work it out so have to go online and look up how to kill him, seems you have to equip your knife as a weapon and the syringe that Naomi gave you as an item. Then when Vamp goes down grab him from behind and stick him with the syringe. How intuitive is that?Anyway with Vamp's nanomachines turned off he is non regenerating now. Geckos turn up, which are set to blow up and take the whole place apart, Raiden shows up and kills some geckos before taking on Vamp. Snake has to use his railgun to knock out geckos.After a set amount of time blasting the geckos Radien kills Vamp, the fight has been going on in a split screen window while you fight.Vamp lies downed, geckos turn up and Otacon gets Rex to shoot them with missiles.Naomi kills vamp off with a syringe of nanites. She then explains that she has cancer and nanites keep it at bay. She injects herself with the syringe and dies. Otacon is upset to say the least.Raiden and Snake make their escape in Rex.We have to fight through a long corridor with lots of gecko, then out onto the dock.Liquid turns up in metal gear ray and we fight like something from a Gundam game.After defeating ray, Liquid makes his escape on foot. Outer haven turns up, which is a huge submarine.Liquid makes his escape on Outer haven. Raiden is trapped by the arm under some rocks for no apparent reason. He cuts off his own arm to get out.Snake is demoralised and near death, Liquid uses Outer Haven to run into the dock and crush snake, Raiden puts himself in the way and holds back the submarine for a few seconds and tells Snake to move. Raiden is crushed by the sub.Mei Ling turns up in her destroyer and starts shooting at the sub. Liquid turns and runs.Snake can't find Raiden's body.Snake passes out as Otacon comes in the helicopter to pick him up.
Act 5 Old sunOn the Missouri there is a briefing.Liquid needs to be in a certain positon at a certain time to hit the sattelite. The missouri can intercept. They need to inject a Naomi Sunny and Emma created worm into GW to destroy it and lock Liquid out of the system. They also need to stop him from destroying JD as well.Snake is getting worse, smoking a lot and injecting himself with Naomi's serum. Seems that the place Snake has to go to upload the worm is also a giant microwave oven.Drebin turns up and gives them some laundered weapons.Outer Haven surfaces and opens up to use the railgun. Snake, Meryl and Akiba are going to use catapults to fire themselves across onto the Outer Haven. There is an exchange of rockets as the two boats approach each other, the Missouri rams then tears along the side of Outer Haven. The three fire themselves across, Akiba misses and falls in the water, Snake and Meryl manage to get aboard.Meryl busts her ankle and is out of action. Snake sneaks alone into the bowels of the ship.I make a pigs ear of it again and end up treating it like call of duty and shooting my way past frogs and geckos.We enter a control room where Meryl lies unconscious on the floor. Loads of Frogs jump us.Once we fight them we go to Meryl.Meryl is being puppeted by Screaming Mantis.She shoots at us and then is made to shoot herself, however Akiba arrives and saves her.Screaming Mantis turns up, puppets the bodies of the dead frogs and shoots Akiba, then takes over Meryl and Akiba, all the dead frogs rise again as well. Things are looking very bleak.I have no idea how to kill Screaming Mantis. So it's walkthrough time. You have to inject yourself with the syringe so that you can shoot at Mantis, your bullets go wide due to her psychic powers. Then you shoot the dolls that dangle beside mantis. When you shoot a doll away it drops to the ground. You can pick it up and use it to shoot mantis, when you do you have to hold R1 and shake the controller, this kills mantis. The same scene occurs, she comes out of her armour, rages around like a loony and then walks slowly towards you. Shooting her kills her in the end. Psycho Mantis a character from the first game appears, does some mad stuff with your controller and talks about ps3's not having memory cards. He then vanishes. drebin calls and gives you Mantis' back story, I am past caring. Something about her being trapped in a torture chamber, and having psycho mantis' personality implanted into her.Snake picks up Meryl, the frogs are back. She tells him to go on to the microwave corridor alone, she stays and stops the frogs from coming after him.Meryl is holding off the Frogs, and running low on ammo, Akiba, or shall we call him Johnny comes and saves her. Johnny confesses undying love and asks her to marry him. Meryl says no then asks him to marry her. All the while they are shooting frogs.Snake continues down the corridor and encounters hundreds of Scarabs.At the end of the corridor Snake collapses and frogs surround him.Raiden turns up minus his arms and holds the frogs off. Snake goes into the microwave corridor and you have a split screen sequence again where Snake goes along the corridor burning and crawling. On the other screen you see Meryl and the rest of the gang fighting for their lives.As you get to the A.i. Otacon injects it with the worm virus.Scarabs turn up and attack Snake.Raiden is starting to lose to the Frogs. Johnny and Meryl are running out of bullets.Otacon and Mei Ling are under attack on the missouri from Scarabs and Metal gear ray.snake is overwhelmed Radien on the ground, and then the frogs convulse and die Everything stops working. GW is down.Naomi's program does more than expected. naomi appears on screens with a message. The program is going to destroy all of the a.i's not just GW.She gives a fairwell message to Otacon which breaks his heart even more.Snake convulses and passes out.Otacon brings the unconscious Snake out onto the top of Outer Haven. Liquid turns up, injects him with something and they start to fight.After a bit of brutal fighting in cut scene, you get to take over in a little beat em up styled sequence. After beating Liquid to a pulp he dies.Otacon takes snake away in the helicopter and tells us that the worm has taken away the patriots control of the system but left the infrastructure intact.
Epilogue Naked SinMeryl is getting married, in a dress, though she still has a holster belt on with it.Campbell turns up and she forgives him for whatever transgressions he made.They get married on a landing strip outside Otacon's plane.Drebin shows up and showers them with petals and doves.Snake is conspicuous by his absence.We see Raiden stripped of all his armour, and with his arms back on.Rose and his son come to see him.Raiden tries to ignore them both, but Rose makes sure he looks at the boy.Turns out that Campbell was only pretending that Rose and he were married, and that the boy was his son. The idea was to deflect patriot interest in them.Radien is happy with this and picks up the boy and sits him on his knee, professing love for them both.Snake walks through the same graveyard we saw at the start of the game. He stands before two graves, Liquid and Big Boss?? Snakes final mission is to erase his own genes from the face of the Earth. He takes out his gun and kneels in front of the grave.Snake shoots himself, cut back to Meryls wedding party.Drebin tells Otacon that the patriots were backing him and in turn backing Meryl also. They wanted Snake to take down Liquid, what they didn't expect was Naomi/Sunny/Emma's worm would knock them all out commission in the process.Sunny makes a friend and Otacon is sad but happy for her at the same time.She asks when Snake is coming back, Otacon breaks down and Sunny consoles him.Cut to black credits roll.After the credits we see that Snake didn't kill himself.Big boss turns up. The body that Liquid burned in europe was that of another clone Solidus.Big boss has brought Zero with him, who looks rather old and appears to be on life support.Big boss explains that the patriots weren't controlled by zero for very long, the a.i's were in total control and they brought about the war economy.Big Boss turns off the oxygen and kills zero.Big boss start to die, the foxdie in Snake has infected him.Big boss tells Snake that the Foxdie is mutating, it won't turn into an epidemic.Big boss essentially tells Snake to go out and live his life. He then dies smoking a last cigar.
30 hours on the ingame clock Though I am sure only about 15 hours or less was actually spent holding the controller.