From there it’s on to taking freelance assignments such as rescuing prisoners of war, blowing up strategic military assets, etc.

If he makes it (which, of course, he will) he’ll have to rescue a captive comrade from a Soviet compound, set up a new private military contractor Mother Base of operations and reestablish a fighting force called the Diamond Dogs. Yep, it’s a pretty bad day to be named Boss. Players have to somehow maneuver their barely-able-to-crawl battler to safety-a task made all the more difficult by the fact that the feeble fellow lost an arm and an eye in that decade-old struggle. Oh, and he also seems to be after Big Boss. With the blazing heat of a small sun this guy is incinerating everything and everyone within a 10-foot radius of his floating form. On top of that, a superpowered “burning man” has shown up, too. This squad of heavily armed killers is ready to splatter the innards of every living soul they find in an effort to get to him.

He wakes just in time to drag his weak-muscled, broken and barely mobile body out of bed as an elite infantry unit hits the hospital he’s residing in. In that game opener, it’s 1984 and we find out a hard-driving one-man army named Big Boss has been in a 9-year-long coma since his last military outing. It’s the kind of quirky combination that only creator Hideo Kojima seems to dream up. The opening segment of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain tells you pretty much everything you need to know about this franchise: In a single, brutal sequence you get the full sense that this is a game of sneak-and-kill, Splinter Cell-like action, laced with ample helpings of military-anime outlandishness and sci-fi techno-fantasy.

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