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If you can cast your mind back about six weeks, you'll remember that The Warp Pipe ran a three part retrospective on the Grand Theft Auto series. It was a pretty exhausting task, but the three parts were the most popular Warp Pipe columns to date, so we're going to continue to deliver the odd retrospective article. Since Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is less than two weeks away, I thought we'd spend the next two weeks looking back at the last 21 years worth of Snake's adventures.

This week, we'll look at the events leading up to the conception of Metal Gear, and examine each game in detail up to and including Metal Gear Solid on the Game Boy.

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What? A Metal Gear story without reference to the "I feel asleep" quote? How can this be?

Interesting article.

Metal Gear Solid?

What is this witchcraft you speak of?

Funny that I had never heard anything of Metal Gear Solid before MGS4. Must be one of those Japanese-made games.

WHAT?!?! You are joking right?

MGS is the be all and end all of the series for me. Only one I've played and I want it to stay that way. It was just so great! It was amazing! I always thought that there was more to the series than the "solid" line, I actually checked up on good old Wikipedia last night in anticipation for this article. I had no idea the series had been around so long. Still; MGS greatest PSOne game

SNAAAAAKE!

Since switching from Sony-only (PS2) to MS-only (Xbox 360), the MGS series is all I miss, but I miss it a lot

And to make matters worse, my 360 red-ringed on me And I can only send it in on Tuesday because of Monday's public holiday

edit 3: never mind this bit, was just mindless rambling anyhow...

Yeah on topic the series has obviously been around a lot longer than it looked. A few interesting points there.

Isn't the public holiday Monday week (ie. the 9th June) ?

Or is this another one of these holidays that differs by state ?

Funny, that's precisely what my whole edit thing up there was about. Apparently Western Australia has a public holiday tomorrow called Foundation Day, commemorating the day that the first European settlers arrived in Western Australia to found the Swan River Colony on 1 June 1829. Usually on the first Monday of June.

First I'd heard of it, I had to Google it to find out. I guess it's only important if you live in WA, like this chap does.

What he said.










I thought it was the Queen's birthday

huh? MGS4 is PS3, plus the other MGS hasn't been PS exclusive, just PS prefered

i'm surprised that they allowed another article like this for the Warp Pipe though, especially so soon



I'm the same as McBanjo, I had 'known' about the series but hadn't really heard much of it till MGS4, never played any of them

also, why does Snake have to kill FOXHOUND in the first game? aren't they his allies?

At the end of the first game [Metal Gear] Big Boss [the head of FOXHOUND] betrays Snake. He setup Snake thinking he would fail so that he could engineer some diabolical plot to sieze metal gear. Thus Snake leaves FOXHOUND and works against them when employed.

That is what Ambrose is saying, because he only has an XBOX these days he cannot play MGS, which he misses because it is an awesome game.