Metal Gear · 2008

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

A dying legend hunts his old rival across four warzones to end the endless war the Patriots built.

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Five years after Big Shell, Solid Snake — genetically engineered to age at an accelerated rate, and now a frail old man in his forties calling himself Old Snake — is dying. FOXDIE, the virus once used to kill Liquid Snake, has mutated and is now killing him too, degrading his body a little further every day. Roy Campbell and Naomi Hunter recruit him for one last mission: track down Liquid Ocelot, the Patriots-defying warlord who has stitched Liquid Snake's mind into Revolver Ocelot's nanomachine-grafted body, and is threatening to hijack SOP, the AI system that arms and controls nearly every private military company on Earth. Snake's manhunt takes him through a Middle Eastern warzone, a South American guerrilla village, an Eastern European city under PMC occupation, and finally back to the frozen ruins of Shadow Moses — reuniting him with Otacon, Meryl, Raiden, and other old allies along the way, as the truth about the Patriots, the SOP system, and Snake's own origin finally comes to light.

FranchiseMetal Gear
CompanyKojima Productions
Game modesSingle player
Estimated playtime12-15 hours
DifficultyHard
PlatformsPlayStation 3

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