PC Gamer’s Rich Stanton joins us to deliver a comprehensive overview of the Metal Gear Solid series, picking out 25 key moments from across the games and the series’ spin-offs. You won’t be disappointed if you’re a fan of the series.
This week’s music is from the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater soundtrack by Norihiko Hibino and Cynthia Harrell.
- Gray Fox reveal/corridor of dead guys (MGS)
- They’re already inside the lift with you (MGS)
- Psycho Mantis (MGS)
- Fighting Metal Gear, death of Gray Fox, beating up Liquid (MGS)
- Fatman boss fight (MGS2)
- ‘The Colonel’ loses his shit (MGS2)
- Opening credits - that great Bond pastiche (MGS3)
- Young Ocelot juggles his guns, is a total dick (MGS3)
- Time Paradox (MGS3)
- The End boss fight (MGS3)
- Death of The Boss (MGS3)
- The future of war - intro (MGS4)
- Octocamo (MGS4)
- Return to Shadow Moses (MGS4)
- Ray versus Rex, Raiden vs Vamp, and a general appreciation for the choreography (MGS4)
- MGS4’s ending (MGS4)
- The Peace Walker has the Boss’s voice and ‘personality’ (MGS: Peace Walker)
- Developing Sony product lines at Mother Base / PSP-Sony integration more widely as a theme (MGS: Peace Walker)
- The first time you fulton someone (MGS: Peace Walker)
- Raiden hacks up Metal Gear Ray (Revengeance)
- ‘Here’s to you’ opening (MGSV: Ground Zeroes)
- Giving Quiet a kill order (MGSV: TPP)
- Killing your own crew (MGSV: TPP)
- ‘Snake’ is the Medic / The Snake eats its own tail (MGSV: TPP)
- Seeing where it all began with hindsight (Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake)