MGS5: Around the net

In case you don't have the patience to sit through ambiguous letters and lightning, I've done the sit work for you (and scanned the net really quickly!).

MGS5 looks like it'll be another prequel about Big Boss (or a very young Solid Snake who just happens to look about MGS2 old... I SMELL A METAL GEAR REMAKE [no]). If you're new to the Metal Gear world, Big Boss is the original Snake - the greatest soldier whose genetic material was used to create clones Solid, Liquid and Solidus Snake, major players throughout the Metal Gear series. He was also the "Snake" you play as in Metal Gear Solid 3.

Since 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, rumors have been abound that the future of the series would be a look back, following the father figure turned "Vader" of Metal Gear through his rise and fall. Portable Ops left the "past" of the series rather ambiguous, with the then Ocelot (before gaining his Revolver name) had killed members of the CIA to gain more of the Philosopher's Legacy and Big Boss having just started up the Foxhound unit.

Since Old Snake's saga has pretty much been bled dry and wrapped up, the only facets of the Metal Gear world left to explore are: the period of change between 2 and 4 (where the world moves from Arsenal Gear crashing into New York and into the age of ID control, etc) and the period leading up to the first Metal Gear game, when we first meet Solid Snake. When will this game be set, then? Will Solid Snake be a fetus? A recruit in Foxhound? Will 5 return to Portable Ops' recruitment mechanic?

Updates will come when the timer runs out, I suppose!

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