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Metal Gear Solid (1998)

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The referenced video game here by the caller who called in is "METAL GEAR SOLID" A video game released in 1998 that tackles the theme of " Gene therapy" as well as the concept of human cloning and gene editing.


The plot of the game takes place In 2005, renegade genetically enhanced special forces unit FOXHOUND seizes control of a remote island in Alaska's Fox Archipelago codenamed "Shadow Moses", which houses a nuclear weapons disposal facility.
FOXHOUND threatens to use the nuclear-capable mecha Metal Gear REX, being secretly tested at the facility, against the US government, if they do not receive the remains of Big Boss ( The greatest living soldier in the 20th century ) and a ransom of $1 billion within 24 hours.
Solid Snake is forced out of retirement by Colonel Roy Campbell to infiltrate the island and neutralize the threat.


Metal Gear Solid is an action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation in 1998. It was directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, and follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, which Kojima also worked on.



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