Snake returns to the battlefield in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain as Big Boss, in the midst of a sandstorm riding a white horse. It is 1984, nine years after the fighting, the destruction ...

especially for the quality with which it delves into Big Boss's story. Aside from the fact that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Paintakes years to get going, it's one of its generation's most ...

Metal Gear's grim and competent special ops protagonist Solid Snake was only grim and quiet thanks to strict tech limitations restricting what his creator, Hideo Kojima, could do with him.