Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game by Hideo Kojima that follows on from the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Despite the switch to 3D, the gameplay of Metal Gear Solid remains similar to its predecessors. The game uses a traditional top-down view and the player must navigate the protagonist Solid Snake through the game's areas without being spotted. If he is spotted, an alarm is triggered, alerting armed enemies to his location. Conversations with Snake's allies and cutscenes are used extensively to advance the plot and provide more insight into it. Considered one of the greatest and most important video games of all time, Metal Gear Solid helped popularize the stealth genre and cinematic cutscenes.

Story

Metal Gear Solid is set in an alternate history where the Cold War lasted into the 1990s and ended sometime towards the end of the 20th century. Returning from retirement, special agent Solid Snake is called back into service to take on the renegade members of Foxhound, a government counter-terrorism unit that threatens to nuke the White House unless they receive a billion dollar ransom. Snake has only 24 hours to thwart the Foxhound threat. He must infiltrate enemy lines, rescue the two hostages and foil the terrorists' plans. The demons of his past will challenge him and his will as a soldier will be tested as Snake fights to save the world from nuclear devastation.