

You’ll find yourself in a civil war between private military companies (PMCs): “Metal Gear Solid 4 depicts the next generation of proxy wars and war economies waged by unmanned weapons and PMCs-a future where parties do not fight but are represented by drones, proxy soldiers, and corporations. Metal Gear Solid 4 is still, quite inexplicably, PlayStation 3-exclusive to this day (one of Konami’s most incomprehensible moves…), and in it, you controlled an older Solid Snake in 2014.


Although Kojima imagined the themes as science fiction, what his games talked about often came to pass in a rather frightening way. His games foreshadowed several things: specific problems of the information age (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), Guantanamo Bay (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes), and the unbreakable cycles of international conflict (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain). Hideo Kojima may have worked on Snatcher or Polycenauts, but most people know the Japanese genius for Metal Gear.
