| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was | | | | agent). A young and impatient Revolver |
| released in 2004 and still had an | | | | Ocelot enters the picture, and he fails |
| emphasis on stealth. It is a prequel to | | | | in capturing Snake. Snake and Eva arrive |
| the Metal Gear games and occurs in 1964. | | | | at the facility where the Shagohod is |
| Unlike traditional Metal Gear games, | | | | being held. Soon afterwards, Volgin |
| this one takes place outside in the | | | | spots Snake and confesses to Snake that |
| Soviet Union. The antagonist in Metal | | | | he has pilfered the Philosophers Legacy. |
| Gear Solid 3 is Colonel Vulcan. Since it | | | | Snakes hears that the United States |
| is a prequel, the protagonist is Naked | | | | actually plans to collect the |
| Snake (not to be confused with Solid | | | | Philosophers Legacy for their own |
| Snake). Metal Gear Solid 3 talks about | | | | agenda, and he manages to terminate the |
| the Philosophers and the Philosophers | | | | Shagohod and Volgin. Eva and Snake blow |
| Legacy as well. The Philosophers are a | | | | up the facility and get away unharmed. |
| perverse group of people composed of the | | | | Unfortunately, The Boss abruptly |
| US, China, and the Soviet Union. They | | | | interferes with their plan to escape. |
| run the entire world without anyone know | | | | Snake realizes that The Boss defected in |
| it. Ultimately, the Philosophers | | | | order for the US to have a scapegoat for |
| deteriorated because of quarrels with | | | | the nuclear explosion. He swiftly |
| each other. The Philosophers Legacy was | | | | disarms her and completes his mission by |
| an exorbitant amount of money that the | | | | killing her.After a long and arduous |
| Philosophers had, and it was concealed | | | | mission, Eva suddenly leaves but manages |
| at some unspecified locations after the | | | | to set aside a tape for Snake. The tape |
| collapse of the Philosophers. The game | | | | divulged that she was a Chinese spy sent |
| begins with Snake talking to his | | | | to recover the Philosophers Legacy for |
| colleagues Major Zero and The Boss via | | | | China. It also revealed that The Boss |
| codec. The Boss is not the same person | | | | defected to repossess the Philosophers |
| that Solid Snake defeated in Metal Gear | | | | Legacy for the United States. Here is |
| and Metal Gear 2. In this game the Boss | | | | the big surprise: Naked Snake is awarded |
| is Naked Snake's former teacher and | | | | with the name "The Boss" for |
| someone else (who will be revealed later | | | | neutralizing the terrorist threat. |
| on). After their codec conversation, | | | | Meaning that the Big Boss that Solid |
| Snake infiltrates a jungle and locates | | | | Snake defeated in Metal Gear 1 and 2 was |
| Sokolov (scientist) because Sokolov is | | | | none other than Naked Snake (the |
| creating a machine called Shagohod. This | | | | protagonist in Metal Gear Solid 3). The |
| machine is capable is being immensely | | | | tape recording was as follows "The |
| harmful and can be utilized as a weapon. | | | | Philosophers still exist in China, too. |
| Everything goes as planned until, Snake | | | | You see, my mission was to find out |
| encounters The Boss. She has defected to | | | | where Volgin was hiding the |
| Colonel Volgin's side, and she hands | | | | Philosopher's Legacy and steal it. So I |
| Volgin two nuclear weapons. Snake | | | | infiltrated his base as a KGB spy. The |
| attempts to impede their malicious | | | | two NSA code breakers who defected in |
| intentions, but fails miserably. Volgin | | | | 1960 were actually both men. The real |
| launches 1 of the nuclear weapons to | | | | Adam never showed up at the meeting |
| conceal their escape route and flees | | | | place, saving me the trouble of having |
| with the Shagohod and Sokolov. Since the | | | | to eliminate him. I sneaked in by |
| weapon was launched over Soviet Union | | | | pretending I was EVA. And you and |
| soil from an American plane, the Soviet | | | | Sokolov and Volgin. You all believed |
| Union interpreted this as an attack. To | | | | me." At the conclusion of the credits, a |
| prevent further bloodshed, United States | | | | conversation involving Ocelot |
| president Lydon Johnson convinces Soviet | | | | transpires. He says that he is Adam and |
| leader Nikita Khrushchev that the US is | | | | his employer is the CIA; moreover, |
| innocent. Furthermore, the US blames The | | | | Ocelot discuses that Eva has nothing and |
| Boss for the nuclear strike and intends | | | | the Unites States has approximately half |
| to eradicate the Shagohod and The Boss. | | | | of the Philosophers Legacy. Metal Gear |
| Seven days later, Snake is sent back | | | | Solid 3 had a significantly more |
| into action to accomplish this mission. | | | | comprehensible storyline than Metal Gear |
| While Snake strives to locate the | | | | Solid 2, and Konami won back its fans |
| Shagohod, he meets Eva (former NSA | | | | with this game. |