Using cigarette smoke to thwart hidden laser tripwires
High drama as everything goes dark and the only man you can trust screams your name.Īll together now Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEE! 9. that it's on the back of the actual CD case that the game came in. Snake has a disc in his inventory, so it's clearly that, right? Cut to at least half an hour* examining this item from every possible angle, only to realise. The Colonel states it plain Meryl's Codec frequency is on the back of the CD case. The single most cinematic way to present back-and-forth dialogue that a video game has ever conjured up.Īnd it was definitely the ring tone of a lot of people reading this, and maybe still is. Kojima breaking the fourth wall and demanding more of his audience, a trait that would continue throughout the series. What the hell is going on?Īs any hardened MGS fan knows by now, the solution to this one is genius - swapping out your controller for the alternate slot and thus blocking Mantis' mind games. Then you fight him and he gets inside your brain, you cannot harm him and the screen randomly fades to black. The battle with Psycho Mantis feels like it belongs in a Resident Evil game, thanks to haunting music and a genuinely unsettling atmosphere. Snake is every bit the Hollywood-ised anti-hero Kojima envisioned and from the opening moments, he represents the perfect avatar with which to tackle this thing.Įlsewhere you've got his black mirror Liquid Snake (more on him in a bit) and his team of Batman-esque villains - the sneering Revolver Ocelot, the lethal Sniper Wolf, the imposing Vulcan Raven and, but of course, the otherworldly Psycho Mantis. Mentioned above but let's give them their due the men and women (okay, it's mostly men) that inhabit this story are instantly captivating. Heart-stopping and truly iconic (stop misusing that word, kids), the music of Metal Gear Solid is nothing short of sublime.Ī character in and of itself, the score adapts to your environment - that alert sequence still brings chills - perfectly soundtracking your way to powerful victory or crushing defeat. Work out your surroundings, distract guards, disable cameras and generally think outside the suspiciously-placed cardboard box the adrenaline rush is real.
#METAL GEAR SOLID 1 ENDING FULL#
Leg it into a room full of bad guys and it's game over, mate. This is an adventure that requires and rewards patience, cunning and timing. MGS is not a game to go in all guns blazing. That's how it was billed, and that's how it went down.
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