Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty US version cover art
Developer	Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Publisher	Konami
Designer	Hideo Kojima
Platform	PlayStation 2
Release Dates	November 13, 2001 (North America) November 29, 2001 (Japan) March 9, 2002 (Europe)
Genre	Stealth action

[edit] Plot

[edit] Synopsis

In 2007, a US tanker, the Discovery, sinks in Manhattan Bay. The disaster involves the Metal Gear Leaks onto the black market and a Metal Gear was stored inside the tanker. Solid Snake is sent to infiltrate this tanker, now a member of the anti-Metal Gear NGO, the Philanthropy. After the tanker sinks, it is believed Solid Snake has been lost at the bottom of the sea.

A plant called Big Shell is constructed to clean the water, but in reality it is actually to hide the new Metal Gear. In 2009, two years after the Tanker incident, the Big Shell is taken over by a group called Sons of Liberty, a terrorist group led by Solidus Snake, the third brother of the Twins Liquid and Solid Snake. The President is a hostage and the government sends in a new recruit to the group FOXHOUND, Raiden, to infiltrate the Big Shell. Raiden is a VR trained soldier, with no battle experience. Raiden discovers there is a shadowy organization controlling everything that even the President must answer too. They are known as the Patriots.

[edit] Tanker Chapter

An anti-Metal Gear group called 'Philanthropy' learns of a tanker being transported down the Hudson River which supposedly contains a Metal Gear created by the U.S Marines. The group, which consists of friends Solid Snake and Otacon (Hal Emmerich), send Solid Snake to infiltrate the tanker and take photos of the Metal Gear to send to Otacon. However, upon arrival, Snake witnesses Russian troops land on the deck and attempt to take over the ship under the control of Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich. Snake's mission instantly becomes trickier, because there are now two factions on board: the marines and the Russians. While Snake is making his way down to the hold where the Metal Gear is housed, he meets Olga, the pregnant daughter of the Colonel. Snake wins the fight that follows and proceeds to make his way down to the hangar.

Olga

Eventually, he finds the hold and begins taking the photos. This would have been easy for Snake to do, but at the front of the hold is Commander Scott Dolph who is introducing the Metal Gear Ray as a revolution to war to hundreds of Marines. He does succeed in his mission though, and sends the photos to Otacon, but it was too late. Gurlukovich's forces, with Revolver Ocelot in tow, storm into the hangar which was full of Marines. Gurlukovich takes the Commander Dolph hostage, and explains how he plans to use the Metal Gear to take Russia back to the world superpower that it once was. However, Revolver Ocelot, who had been pretending to share the Colonel's dream, announces that he has other plans and had used Gurlukovich and his forces as a shortcut to gain access to Ray. The furious Colonel attempts to shoot him, but Ocelot kills him and the Commander with the revolver skills he is famed for. Ocelot detonates an explosive in the tanker, and, in the midst of the confusion, makes his escape in Metal Gear Ray. On the way out, the Metal Gear destroys the ship which causes a huge oil spill. Solid Snake takes the blame for this and is presumed dead because everyone drowned in the sea.