troops participating in rebellion), take over the nuclear weapons facility on Shadow Moses Island and threaten the United States government with a nuclear attack wave from the ultimate killing machine (the nuclear-equipped walking battle tank, Metal Gear Rex) Snake's former commander, Colonel Roy Campbell (ret.), sends armed soldiers to Snake's peaceful Alaskan home, drags him to a secret base, and puts the whole situation in his hands. When some of Foxhound's top operatives form a terrorist organization and gain control of a secret genome army of Next-Generation Special Forces (rogue U.S. You take on the role of Solid Snake: a relatively young, retired soldier from an elite government team known as Foxhound. Friend and foe are indistinguishable as he discovers the reality of his mission, the terrorists' plot, and the story behind the mysterious resemblance between Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. As he carries this out, he finds out that he has been double-crossed by his support and pursued by a crazed former ally and enemy. Knowing this, he ultimately sets out to destroy FOX-HOUND and Metal Gear. Soon after infiltrating the base, Solid Snake discovers that the nuclear warhead storage facility is only a cover-up for a deep underground base used for the development of a nuclear launch-capable walking battle tank, called Metal Gear. His mission is to rescue two of the terrorists' hostages, and to find out if they have the ability to launch a nuke, and stop them if they do.
The Pentagon sends in former FOX-HOUND hero Solid Snake, supported by his old commander, Col. They threaten to launch a nuclear strike if the United States doesn't give in to their demands: the remains of Big Boss, whose genes were used to create these "Genome Soldiers." At the head of this "revolution" are six former members of the disbanded special forces unit, FOX-HOUND, led by codename Liquid Snake, with his officers Revolver Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven, and Decoy Octopus.
Genetically-engineered terrorists take over a nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island in Alaska.