Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)

In 1964, a U.S. government operative codenamed "Snake" must infiltrate mountainous Soviet territory to rescue a scientist building a weapon of terrible power.

Director:

Hideo Kojima

Writers:

Hideo Kojima (story), Hideo Kojima

Stars:

David Hayter, Suzetta Miñet, Jim Piddock

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
David Hayter	...	Naked Snake / Jack (voice)
Suzetta Miñet	...	EVA (voice)
Jim Piddock	...	Major Zero (voice)
Heather Halley	...	Para-Medic (voice)
James Mathis III	...	Sigint (voice) (as James Mathis)
Lori Alan	...	The Boss (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Colonel Volgin (voice)
Josh Keaton	...	Ocelot (voice)
Gregg Berger	...	The Pain (voice)
Michael Bell	...	The Fear (voice)
J. Grant Albrecht	...	The End (voice) (as Grant Albrecht)
Richard Doyle	...	The Fury (voice)
David Thomas	...	The Sorrow / Chairman Khrushchev (voice)
Brian Cummings	...	Sokolov (voice)
Jim Ward	...	Director Granin (voice)

Storyline

In 1963 Naked Snake, soon to be Big Boss and father a Solid Snake, infiltrates the Russian jungle to extract a Russian weapons specialist. The mission turns into a catastrophic failure when Snake's former mentor, The Boss, defects to Russia and sets a nuke. Now alone and defenseless Snake must stop The Boss and her squad of crack special ops from unleashing nuclear war!

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Plot Keywords:

single player | metal gear solid | playstation 2 | stealth game | hiding in tall grass | 

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Taglines:

He's the Ultimate Soldier - The Ultimate Predator - And Now He Must Stop the Ultimate Weapon

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Romance

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Certificate:

M

Did You Know?

Trivia

The character of "The End" (as well as the concept of The Boss being Naked Snake's mentor) was based on a scrapped member of Dead Cell from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty called Old Boy (sometimes referred as Oldman). Old Boy (according to the MGS2 gameplan) was a 100-year old former Nazi general who wielded a Panzerfaust as his weapon of choice and was also a mentor to several soldiers, including Big Boss himself. His character was written out of the Metal Gear Solid 2 script because they could not find a way to fit it into the story.

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Goofs

In the setting of this game (1964), only the first two James Bond films, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had been released, with Goldfinger being released shortly after the events of Operation Snake Eater. Many of the tropes Snake, Para-Medic and Zero ascribe to the series (ie. "The fantastic gadgets? The cars?") had not been fully formulated by this time, and would emerge in later entries in the franchise.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Naked Snake: After the end of World War II, the world was split into two - East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War.

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Crazy Credits

After the end credits, there are two revealing phone calls by Ocelot.

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Alternate Versions

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, an expanded version, includes many new features, such as:

• An optional third-person camera angle.
• Metal Gear Online, an online multi-player mode.
• All of the features previously exclusive to the European version of Metal Gear Solid 3 (see below).
• The original versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

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Connections

Featured in The Angry Video Game Nerd: Charlie's Angels (GameCube) (2017)

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Soundtracks

Snake Eater
Music & Words by Norihiko Hibino
Vocal by Cynthia Harrell
Strings and horn arrangement by Mark Holden
Programming by Nate Phillips (as Nate Phillipe) and Rika Muranaka
Recorded and mixed by Alan Meyerson
Produced by Rika Muranaka (Un Jazz Music, Inc.)

User Reviews

Simply the best

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is superior to all other PS2 Console games. It give you an experience like any other; the gameplay is amazing, the graphics are stunning, the storyline is cinematic, the characters are extremely likable. This game has some the most unique bosses of any other game; i think they are comparable to that of Resident Evil 4.

This game's storyline I believe is second only to the first MGS installment. But it answers pretty much every question you are left with at the end of Sons of Liberty.

The ending, if you can understand it, is the best ending of any game/movie I've ever seen. I was deeply moved, know that The Boss was simply fulfilling her duty, yet no1 would ever know that. And it was sad to think that this heorin was just going to go down as a criminal in history.

The music, again, is gripping, much like MGS2, but i think in ways, much better, Harry Gregson Williams is masterful in writing scores...i loved his work in Armageddon as well.

Simply put, gripping and graphically stunning video game...10/10

Details

Official Sites:

Konami [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

17 November 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Metal Gear Solid 3

Company Credits

Production Co:

Konami Computer Entertainment

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color