But if The Phantom Pain is your first time entering the world of tactical espionage action, you'll quickly find yourself drowning in one of the most ridiculously dense narratives in video game history. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is a phenomenal swansong from series creator Hideo Kojima, easily taking the top honors of our Game of the Year Awards in 2015. XOF - A new, secret military organization introduced in Ground Zeroes. Ousted from office by the Patriots, he sought revenge by commandeering Arsenal Gear. Solidus Snake, aka George Sears - A perfect clone of Big Boss created in the Les Enfants Terribles project, Solidus became president of the United States, and was in office during the events of Metal Gear Solid. Solid Snake - One of the clones created during the Les Enfants Terrible project and series hero. He… kinda turns into Liquid Snake a bit by the end. The two would work together in FOXHOUND, and later, The Patriots. Ocelot and Naked Snake formed a bond during Operation Snake Eater, despite being on opposite sides.

Revolver Ocelot, aka Adamska - A Russian GRU officer. He's whiny, but then becomes a cyborg ninja in MGS4, which kinda makes up for it. Raiden - The Big Shell might be Raiden's first official operation, but he was actually a child soldier in Rhodesia in the 1980's, and Solidus was his CO and surrogate father at the time. The Philosophers' Legacy - A microfilm containing account transfer information for $100 billion in funds. The Philosophers - A shadowy organization created after the events of WW1 that sought to control world events. The Patriots/Cipher - A new, even more shadowy organization that replaced the Philosophers after Major Zero and Ocelot recovered both halves of the Philosophers' Legacy. Paz Andrade - A Cipher agent, Paz originally called upon Snake to rid Costa Rica of foreign invaders, though it was actually a front for her true purpose: to gather information on Snake, MSF, and Metal Gear ZEKE, and report back to Cipher. It was also the name of Big Boss' base of operations during the events of Metal Gear. Outer Heaven - A series of ideals held by Big Boss that represent the soldier's paradise, where soldiers could exist free from government exploitation or tyranny. Naomi Hunter - Frank Jaeger's sister and chief of FOXHOUND's medical staff during the Shadow Moses incident, she injects Solid Snake with the FOXDIE virus prior to the mission to avenge her brother's death. Militaires Sans Frontieres - A mercenary organization formed by Naked Snake and Kazuhira Miller that grew large enough that it began to upset the global war economy. Metal Gear - Metal Gear has taken on many forms over the years, but all of them are some form of bipedal battlemech capable of launching nuclear missiles from any location. Major Zero - A British SAS officer who headed FOX during Operation Snake Eater, Major Zero would go on to create The Patriots, a secret organization that aimed to take over the world. Liquid Snake - One of the clones created from the Les Enfants Terribles project, and villain of Metal Gear Solid. Three clones were created from this project: Liquid and Solid were created first, with the experiment finally perfected with the creation of Solidus. Les Enfants Terribles - A secret project initiated by Major Zero in an attempt to clone Big Boss. He used his connections with Cipher to grow MSF into a dominant force of the war economy.

Kazuhira Miller - Second in command of Militaires Sans Frontieres. Huey Emmerich - One of the designers on the Peace Walker project, Naked Snake rescues him and brings him into Militaires Sans Frontieres, where he designs Metal Gear ZEKE. After the events of Metal Gear Solid, he joins up with Snake in an attempt to atone for his sins by ridding the world of Metal Gear once and for all. Hal Emmerich - Huey Emmerich's son and the lead designer on Metal Gear REX. GW - A Patriot-developed AI program that was originally created to distort information and influence human activity, it's also part of a greater network that provides information to the nanomachines of the global military complex. However, Jaeger's loyalty to Big Boss causes him to turn on Snake in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. FOXHOUND - Created by Naked Snake to combat a renegade FOX unit, FOXHOUND became an official part of the US military in 1971, and specialized in solo infiltration and covert operations.įrank Jaeger, aka Gray Fox - Rescued by Big Boss in the late 1960's, Jaeger worked with FOXHOUND for decades, helping Solid Snake during the Outer Heaven Uprising in the first Metal Gear.

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