Metal Gear

"I was making games like Policenauts, and I heard rumors about a console on which polygons could be created in real-time. This really grabbed my attention, since one of the major attractions of games is the sensation of action, and I was intrigued to see what I could achieve with those polygons. Metal Gear is a hide-and-seek game and the thought of doing this while adding a camera that could change position really excited me. So I stopped making script-based games and went back to asking for favors from programmers for this 3D world."

"Such a lust for revenge! Who?"

"[talks Snake into following him] Whatever the Navajo told you... it's just one possible solution derived by Cipher. My will is different. I've known you since your time at Langley. I've long been the other side of your coin. 1964, Soviet territory. FOX's first mission. Any mess you made, I was there to clean up. You completed your task - and admirably. The "information" you returned was far more than enough to fill our pockets. With it, our futures became - more or less - set in stone. And then the major came to me with an idea. "Washington doesn't know how to spend money," he said. "I'd like to... redirect it". His goal was an organization dedicated solely - covertly - to supporting America. Cipher. You know the rest. To him, it was mourning - the loss of his friend. Or rather, an act of revenge. On the world, but America most of all. [Skull Face, Snake, and four XOF soldiers step into a cargo elevator, which descends] America is a country of liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live along side others. Their roots are varied. Diverse. America's never been made up of just one people. But he tried to forge a single consciousness. For it, and from it. The idea that every citizen would use free will to unite behind their country... Unilateralism like that can't be entrusted to any one individual. So the major sought a system which used information, words, to control the "subconscious". [Snake and Skull Face board a jeep and are driven out of OKB Zero] To unite America and the entire world. The major thought this was his friend's will. But I think he never understood what she wanted. Before he ever walked, or cried - even before he was born - his mother tongue was English. He doesn't know the pain of losing his own language. Not yet. He cannot understand her will. I do. I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers. Foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language. With each new post, my masters changed, along with the words they made me speak. Words are... peculiar. With each change, I changed too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong... War changed me - and not only my visage. Words can kill. I was invaded by words, burrowing and breeding inside me. A philosopher once said, "It is no nation we inhabit, but a language." "Make no mistake, our native tongue is our true fatherland." My fatherland - my truth was stolen from me. And so was my past. All that's left is the future. And mine is revenge. On those who'd leech off the words of their fellow man. This is what I learned from the major. And then it hit me. It was he who should feel my wrath. He and the code he chose as basis for control. Language codes, information codes - beamed all around us - genetic codes spanning history. By controlling the codes, Cipher... Zero intends to unify the world. Codes implanted into our heads, sucking our minds dry as it spreads from one host to the next. A parasite upon the earth. That is what Zero is. As one born into this world, he's afflicted. I hold him responsible for killing my freedom. Killing all traces of my past... Killing any promise of a future... We are all but dead men forced to walk upon this earth. A world reduced to Zero. Cipher plans to use its codes to control the world. They think they can. [Skull Face produces a small canister] And the "mother tongue" of all those codes is English. [He opens the canister, revealing two vials and a space for a third one, which is empty] The word became flesh. The final parasite. [Skull Face takes one vial and shows it to Snake] It knows English. An English strain of the vocal cord parasite. [He puts it back in its canister and closes it before setting it down beside him] I will exterminate the English language. With this, I'll rid the world of infestation. All men will breathe free again - reclaim their past, present, and future. This is no ethnic cleanser. It is a "liberator," to free the world from Zero. Let the world be. Sans lingua franca, the world will be torn asunder. And then, it shall be free. People will suffer, of course - a phantom pain. The world will need a new common tongue. A language of nukes. My Metal Gears shall be the thread by which all countries are bound together, in equality. No words will be needed. Every man will be forced to recognize his neighbor. People will swallow their pain. They will link lost hands. And the world will become one. This war is peace."

"You too have known loss. And that loss torments you still. You hope hatred... might someday replace the pain. But it never goes away. It makes a man hideous inside and out. Wouldn't you agree? We both are demons. Our humanity won't return. You. Me. We've no place to run, nowhere to hide. And that is why I will show you my demon."

"Metal Gear Solid sold well throughout the world; it was a great success. When I heard about the hardware for the PlayStation 2, I wanted to try something new. Up to that point, all cutscenes had focused more on details like facial expressions, but I wanted to pay more attention to the surroundings, to see how much I could change them in real-time. Current games like Call of Duty have followed this trend of making your surroundings more realistic."

"This ends here."

"This is good... isn't it?"

"Raiden... Forget me. Stop him!"

"I lost...So this is how they felt...dying...for a cause...I am sorry. He was...too much...But I know...you will never fall...Je t'aime... de tout mon coeur."

"Why would I surrender? We are exactly where I want! Built with Russia money, to make Russia money! It is no plant for Abkhaz - it is their prison! But now... They will be FREE!"

"No. I passed one... to you... sure as the sun... will rise... the slaughter... will continue... now I return... to the Earth... the wind blows, rain falls... the strong... prey... on the weak... all... is as it should... be..."

"*chuckle* Asshole. *cough*. He's good...real good. You knew this would happen, didn't ya. Well, you'll get your wish... Up to you now...Sam."

"Deep inside we're...kindred spirits...you...and I..."

"They... they're just... using you for..."

"This is the first time I've ever used my power to help someone. It's strange... it feels... kind of... nice."

"No vibration either?!"

"Vibration is back!"

"I was a fool, I wanted to be a soldier. But war is ugly... There's nothing glamorous about it. Snake, please! Save yourself. Go on living and don't give up on people! Don't forget me... Now get out of here!"

"Everyone's here now. Okay hero... set me free."

"The path you walk on has no end. Each step you take is paved with the corpses of your enemies. Their souls will haunt you forever. You shall have no peace. Hear me, Snake! My spirit will be watching you!"

"Snake... We're not tools of the government... or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing- the only thing- I was good at. But at least I fought for what I believed in. Snake... farewell..."

"The La-li-lu-le-lo! How's that possible!?"

"But I am. Do it. I know you can."

"Laugh and grow fat!"

"You-you tricked me... I understand now. Ocelot, you're-"

"Find Emma... Stop Arsenal. This is my last order -- as your Commander-In-Chief... I'm counting on you!"

"Please call me... Emma."

"Live! You have to!"

"My name is Helena Dolph Jackson, the daughter of a proud and noble soldier! I can finally see my family... again."

"Good work, Jack. But this is where it gets interesting!"

"The pain... the pain... the pain! The pain!!"

"The fear! The fear!! I see it! The fear!"

"Spirits of the forest, I thank you. The Boss would be proud of you. The time has come for a younger generation to rise. I've been wondering for more than a century and now my journey comes to a close. What a splendid way... to end it all. I have no regrets. I can return to the forest at last."

"Boss... this is the end of the Cobras. You've got to live on. You're the only one left. I'm off, to join The Sorrow. Behold the flames of Fury. The fires of hell will purge me clean. I can see it. Mission Control, do you read me? I'm coming home. I can see the earth! (barely intelligible) FURY!!!"

"Shoot me! You want to finish your mission, don't you? Then... you'll have to shoot me. The spirit of the warrior... will always be with you. Don't be sad... we'll meet again someday."

"Who's afraid of a little thunder?"

"There's only room for one Boss... and one Snake..."

"I shouldn't be laughing. I'm scared. Really scared. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So sorry I laughed. I'm sorry... I won't laugh anymore. I can't. *laughs* I don't want to."

"Let me out of this cage. I don't need these wings. I don't need this rage. Come. Let your anger flow."

"You and the beasts are no different... scorched shadows born to the world. When a beast steps into the light... unless the light is put out... the shadows cannot be erased. So long as there is light... there is shadow. To return everything to normal... the light must be extinguished. And when that happens... you... will be... too."

"No... I don't need tears anymore. I've cried myself dry. So cry... as much as you like. I... will be there to listen."

"I can... die?"

"Promise... promise me... you'll carry on... our will."

"Snake... the time has come. You've earned your rest. The rose petal is about to fall."

"My head hurts... it hurts! I'm sorry! Have mercy! Let me out of here! I can't breathe! Now... get out of my body. Forgive me. Set me free!"

"I am Liquid's doppelganger. And you are his. Just... like your father... you're pretty good."

"David Hayter as Naked Snake"

"What we did to create the experimental environment was that we went to islands like Yakushima, Amami Oshima, and even places in Canada. These are places with a lot of vegetation, like Japanese jungles. (Well, obviously not Canada.) Based on our research, we created this fictional jungle forest to see if it worked."

"I decided that MGS3 should be about survival, and I started thinking about how survival would work in the game. The game takes place in the '60s, and if the game was going to be about survival, I decided it had better take place in the jungle."

"It's not really how I was inspired or influenced. We as video game creators and video game fans want to experience jungle battle, fighting in the jungle, and field battle. We've done enough with the CQB (Close Quarters Battle), we're taking this direction that everyone wants to experience."