Metal Gear Acid
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| Developer(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment Japan |
| Publisher(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment |
| Designer(s) | Shinta Nojiri (director) |
| Platform(s) | PSP |
| Release date | JP December 16, 2004 NA March 22, 2005 EU September 1, 2005 |
| Genre(s) | Stealth action, collectible card game, turn-based tactics |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | BBFC: 15 CERO: 15+ ESRB: M OFLC: M |
| Media | UMD |
| Next game (release) | Metal Gear Acid 2 |
Metal Gear Acid was the first Metal Gear game to be released on the PlayStation Portable.
While the Metal Gear series, despite being stealth-based, has always had a heavy influence of action, Metal Gear Acid is not action-oriented, but focuses on turn-based strategy (this is why the game's logo lacks the "Tactical Espionage Action" tagline featured on all of the Metal Gear Solid games). It uses a trading card-based system to control the main character's movements and actions.
Metal Gear Acid is a "side-story" and not part of the series' main storyline[1] (similar to the earlier Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, and the even earlier Snake's Revenge). While the game features an all-new cast, card sets are available which feature characters, weapons and items from each of the previously released Metal Gear Solid titles, as well as a "Chronicle" set which covers not only the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, but also other Konami titles like Snatcher, Policenauts, Boktai and Zone of the Enders.
[edit] Story
A plane (flight 326) has been hijacked by an unknown terrorist threat and it's up to Solid Snake to infiltrate the enemy and put an end to this dangerous crisis.
The story starts out with Teliko moving from building to building running away from the guards. The view then changes to the inside of an aeroplane where two dolls, Elsie and Frances, are holding several people hostage. The game then cuts to Solid Snake as he infiltrates an Lobito Island in search of the secret project codenamed "Pythagoras". To help Snake in his mission, he gains the help of Alice Hazel, a psychic. Snake finds this as a joke and doesn't take Alice seriously. He meets a lone man in the control room called Gary Murray. Gary helps Snake to find Dr. Flemming by telling him his location. Snake then goes to the Residential Block to find Dr. Flemming. Meanwhile on flight 326 Frances kills the pilot and co-pilot by carving the numbers "1" and "14" on their chests. Once in the eastern building Snake must register so that he can enter rooms to search for Flemming. However he was already registered a Hans Davis, which surprises Snake. When he finds Flemming he finds out it was a decoy and meets Lieutenant Leone. Murray had led him into a trap. It looks bad for Snake but then Teliko shows up and helps Snake escape with a stun grenade. After a brief exchange Snake and Teliko join up and Snake begins to suffer severe headaches. Rodger informs the two that Hans Davis was the top dog at the laboratory several years ago. He was Flemming's supervisor, and presided over various research projects. He was on loan from BEAGLE as a lab chief, but has no records on file before that. When Hans first arrived, witnesses attest that dozens of children were taken from the main island to Lobito Island by boat as an image eerily reminiscent of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". It is also made clear that they were used to test a new form of drug. Gary calls the group on CODEC and informs them that the drug is called ACUA and that Pythagoras is a Metal Gear. Gary also says that he wants to gain the ACUA research data from Flemming and is willing to kill him after he is finished. When Snake enters the room containing Flemming on his own it is revealed that Gary is in fact Flemming who claims that Snake is Hans Davis. Snake begins to struggle against Hans memories and personality while Flemming informs Snake that BEAGLE needed an idol role model for the test subject children and Snake had agreed to fill the role, that he was itching to find someone to follow in his footsteps. That he accepted BEAGLE's offer, and became Hans who after a while decided to create false memories to forget he was ever Hans in the first place. Gary says that his daughter is on flight 326 which was hijacked by No. 16 who happens to be one of the test subjects on Lobito and that the numbers being carved onto the hostages are a coded message to Snake out of spite. Teliko eventually finds Snake and shoots Flemming; causing him to flee and leave behind the Pythagaros data which is unfortunately heavily encoded. Teliko persuades Snake that since he cannot be trusted she should hold onto the disc and he reluctantly accepts. It is around this time Rodger receives a call from his superior Charles Schmeiser who is suspicious of why Rodger was so eager to participate in the mission and why he requested Snake to join them, he is also suspicious of Snakes link with BEAGLE and informs Rodger and Alice that they must prepare for the possibility that Snake is losing his mind. As Snake and Teliko head back to the storehouse they are ambushed by Leone who claims to have a grudge with BEAGLE and that he received an anonymous tip that stealing the Pythagoras data would enable him to extract revenge. Leone also says that Snake and Teliko are making things difficult for him and attacks them both.
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[edit] References
- ↑ MGS: Database, Released on Playstation Network does not include this game as part of the storyline and is not covered by the database.
