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• I. Table of contents
  
• II. Controls
  
• III. Storyline
  
• IV. Characters
  
• V. Secrets
  
• VI. Useful Links
  

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• Analogue= Move
  
• D-Pad= Rotate 3rd Person Camera
  
• L Trigger= Centre Camera, Hold and Press Square to Fire Weapon
  
• R Trigger= First Person View
  
• Triangle= Sneak While Walking, Climbing, Snapping to Walls
  
• Circle= Cross shaped weapon selection interface (assault rifle, tranq gun/knife, sniper rifle, grenades).
  
• X: Stance (Stand, Crouched, Prone)
  
• Square: CQC (Punch, Punch, Kick) or Melee Weapon. Fires Weapon if L1 is held.
  
• While in FPS View (Pressing R1 and Moving the camera with the Analogue). You can Strafe by Pressing L1 button to strafe and the Analogue to the desired direction.
  

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Six years after the events of "Operation: Snake Eater", portrayed in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake's former team, FOX Unit, has broken their allegiance with the CIA. Snake himself is also targeted by the FOX Unit, who attacks and captures him. The game begins with Snake being tortured and interrogated by one of the members of FOX, Liutenant Cunningham, who's trying to locate the whereabouts of the missing half of the Philosopher's Legacy, with the United States Government having already acquired the other half of the Legacy from the Soviet Union at the conclusion of Snake Eater. Snake is imprisoned in a cell next to Roy Campbell, the sole survivor of an American Green Beret team sent in to investigate the base. Snake learns through Roy that they're on the San Hieronymo Peninsula, the site of an abandoned Soviet missile silo in Colombia.

The two escape and Snake makes his way to a communications base, where he attempts to contact his old CO, Major Zero. Instead, he is greeted by his old FOX comrades Para-Medic and Sigint, who reveal that Snake and Zero are being accused of instigating the revolt and that the only way for Snake to clear their name is to find and apprehend the leader of the rebellion, Gene. To complicate matters, Gene has also convinced several of the Russian soldiers stationed on the base to join their side by simply taking over the chain of command of a former Red Army unit, that was secretly stationed inside the Colombian territory. In order to complete his mission, Snake must persuade enemy soldiers to join his ranks.

Snake and his squad defeat the top members of the FOX unit and eventually they make their way into Gene's guesthouse. Snake learns many things on his way. Cunningham was working for the Pentagon and wanted Snake to push Gene into launching a nuke to Russia to prolong the Cold War (so the Pentagon could keep their importance). Gene was actually aware of this plan the whole time from information from Ocelot. Gene really wanted to launch a nuke at America to destroy the Philosophers and to make his nation of soldiers, "Army's Heaven". Snake destroys an experimental model of Metal Gear codenamed RAXA and eventually defeats Gene, destroying the real Metal Gear itself as well afterwards. After Gene is defeated he gives Big Boss the funds, equipments, personal, and all other information of Army's Heaven. On his return home, Snake is awarded for his actions and establishes FOXHOUND afterwards. In the end it is revealed Ocelot kills the DCI and takes the Philosophers documents to end them. He, Big Boss, and an unknown man form the Patriots in their place. Ocelot actually wanted the trajectory data of the nuke to point to the DCI so he would bring the documents right to him.

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The last remaining survivor of a Green Berets mission in the San Hieronymo Peninsula, Campbell encounters the legendary soldier, Big Boss. Together, the two hatch a plan to advert World War III by directly engaging the rebellious FOX Unit.

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Known in the military world as Big Boss, Naked Snake finds himself in a South American Prison. Surrounded by a bloody revolt led by his former unit FOX, Snake embarks on an impossible mission -- recruit the disgruntled Soviet soldiers in Columbia and lead an uprising against the nuclear-armed FOX unit.

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Ocelot plays a minor (in the sense that he appears very briefly), but important role in the story. He is Gene's telephone contact and near the end of the game, he assassinates the successor to his former employer from Snake Eater, the DCI.
Ocelot can be recruited into Snake's unit during gameplay by contacting a specific frequency number near the end of the game. After contacting him, he will appear as part of the player's team during the next playthrough. This, however, does not affect the plot in anyway.

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In Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, he and Snake are blamed for the FOX unit's revolt and Zero is kept in captivity in a military prison accused of treason. He is exonerated from the charges later on, and greets Snake on his return home. He can be recruited into the player's squad during subsequent playthrough if the player has a save data of Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel in their memory stick or by a password at the Recruit menu. In his career stats it is revealed that he has been a politician, quarterback, rescuer and deliveryman throughout his life.

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Known only as the perfect soldier, this young man was project initiated by the CIA to create the ultimate warrior. Incapable of experiencing emotions or doubts. He was raised in the labe for one purpose: Accomplish the mission.

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A former comrade of Snake, Python was pronounced dead during a mission ten years ago in Vietnam. With his body unable to regulate its temperature, Python was encased in a liquid-nitrogen filled suit thus prolonging his life.

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FOX Unit’s interrogation specialist and former CIA lieutenant, Cunningham has but one mission – capture Snake and extract the location of the missing half of the Philosophers’ Legacy.

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A graduate of the Successor Project, Gene was a top-secret government experiment designed to create the ultimate battlefield commander. Now the leader of the FOX Unit, Gene has seceded from the U.S. and now threatens to turn the Cold War into a blazing hot one.

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Born with exceptional abilities in ESP, Ursula and her sister were captured by the communists to be moulded into valuable weapons in the Cold War. Rescued by Gene, the sisters committed their lives to his ambitious plans of creating a nation not of soldiers, but for them.

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Chronologically, it is the first Metal Gear prototype ever built, having been developed by the U.S. government in 1970. Its design, completed by Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, is based on the original blueprints created by Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin. The head itself has a strong resemblance with the one from Metal Gear REX, the model from Metal Gear Solid. It has four legs (merely a step towards bipedalism -- which was an impossibility with the technology available at the time). Its nuclear function is to act as a mobile launching device for MIRVs. While therefore capable of making nuclear strikes against several targets at once, its range is limited, and unlike the Shagohod, is unable to compensate for it with speed. Thus, it must be physically transported to a point within range of the target(s) first. This is accomplished by having the Metal Gear unit itself attached to the top of a rocket, launching it, detaching the unit at 3000 ft above the intended landing point, and having it parachute back down to the ground, launching its nuclear payload afterwards.

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Raikov returns in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops in a side mission. His men put him in a cell in the Western Wilderness when they join Gene in retaliation for Raikov beating them. He was transferred to the base in Colombia by his superiors after Volgin's death. By fulfilling a side-mission, Snake rescues him and Roy manages to convince him to join them since he would be considered a hero for stopping a nuclear launch and would be promoted. In the game it is revealed that he has been an artist and an athlete in his career outside the Soviet Army.

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She is a recruitable character in the single player campaign.

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He is a recruitable character in the single player campaign.

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After Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, EVA is presumed dead, after disappearing in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1968. She appears in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops as a recruitable character by completing a side-mission. Later on, it is revealed that she was fired by PLA Intelligence after giving them a fake microfilm she thought was the Philosopher's Legacy. She escaped from China before they could kill her and became a freelance pilot/deliverywoman. She is also inside the magazine
in-game as the centerfold.

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It is revealed that he survived and was put in a prison camp in Russia, but Gene rescued him and helped him defect to the United States to see his family. He joined Gene's research team in which he designed Metal Gear. He provides information to Snake as an anonymous informant named "Ghost". Sokolov can be recruited into the player's squad by fulfilling a side-mission near the end of the game.

Ocelot11

Nov 29 2006, 01:53 AM

Then why did you say she was the psychic?

Ghost Sniper

Nov 29 2006, 05:46 PM

Yeah, well I was 3 days late for the preordering. I hope it isn't going to be sold out in my local game store before I get there.

By the way, is it possible to get the limited edition without ordering one from online shop?