Description
Near the end of the 20th century, a small fortified nation named Outer Heaven (founded by a mysterious war hero whose name and identity are shrouded in secrecy) is threatening the nations of the "West" with the development of a new prototype weapon named Metal Gear, a walking tank which is capable of launching nuclear warheads from anywhere on the globe. As FOX-HOUND's (an elite black ops unit) newest recruit, going by the codename of Solid Snake, your mission is to infiltrate Outer Heaven and rescue your missing comrade, Grey Fox (who was captured after a failed infiltration), while gathering intelligence on Metal Gear. In order to fulfill your objective, you must collect various weapons and equipments (including keycards for further access into the fortress), while avoiding visual contact with the enemy. The player must also confront against bosses in the form of Outer Heaven's elite mercenary force and rescue hostages hidden within the fortress in order to increase their rank, which gives the player an extended life bar and increased storage capacity for replenishable items and ammo. The player can use a wireless transceiver to come in touch with their commanding officer, Big Boss, to learn more about their current mission objectives or contact one of the local resistance members operating covertly within the fortress to gain useful tips and insights.
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Trivia
In the original Japanese storylines, every Metal Gear game pits you against U.S. Special Forces who have become addicted to war and who decide to start a few of their own. Perhaps because that wouldn't play very well to a domestic audience, and perhaps because they were feeling creative and/or bored out of their gourds, Nintendo of America changed the storyline of the original NES Metal Gear game so that you were up against Third World, Islamic (if you read between the lines) terrorist Vermon Cataffy. Cataffy's name bears a not-coincidental resemblance to Muammar Gadaffi, the terrorist mastermind de-jour of the 70s and 80s.
Snake's Revenge, the 'unofficial' American sequel to Metal Gear, continued this trend by pitting you against Higharolla Kockamamie, which not coincidentally enough rhymes with Ayatollah Khomeini, another Islamic fellow the American public wasn't very happy with at the time.
