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“Metal Gear Solid 4″ is set in 2014, nine years after the plot of Metal Gear Solid and five years after Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The world economy relies on continuous war, fought by PMCs, which outnumber government military forces. PMC soldiers are equipped with nanomachines that enhance their abilities on the battlefield. The control network created through these nanomachines is called Sons of the Patriots (SOP), and Liquid Ocelot is preparing to hijack the system. Snake, meanwhile, is experiencing accelerated aging due to his status as a clone, and has less than a year to live. He is now living with Dr. Hal “Otacon” Emmerich and Olga Gurlukovich’s daughter Sunny. When his former commanding officer Roy Campbell approaches him with one last mission – to terminate Liquid – Snake accepts and is dropped into the Middle Eastern war zone where Liquid is believed to be hiding.

The story opens with the quote “War has Changed” from Snake who is travelling with a group of rebels fighting against the local PMC named ‘Praying Mantis’. After a combat with some unmanned weapons named as ‘Gekkos’, a flashback scene reveals that Snake has classic Werner’s Syndrome which results in accelerated aging and the doctors are not able to find the cause. Otacon informs Snake that he will die in a year. Snake is then given a mission by Colonel Roy Campbell who is working for the UN to assassinate Liquid. Snake infiltrates the area where Liquid’s army is camped and is told to rendezvous with a group of U.S. Army informants posted nearby. Otacon supports Snake via radio communications and the small robot Metal Gear Mk II, while Snake infiltrates. On his way to the meeting, he meets Drebin 893, a black market arms dealer, who then injects Snake with nano machines that enable him to use the latest generation of weaponry. At the rendezvous point, Snake encounters a patrol unit led by his old comrade Meryl Silverburgh and learns Liquid’s location. Snake continues to the destination, but when he finally reaches Liquid, Liquid releases a signal that incapacitates Snake and, the patrol unit, and all other soldiers in the area equipped with nano machines. As Snake collapses, he sees Dr. Naomi Hunter again for the first time since she injected him with the virus FOXDIE in Metal Gear Solid. The only person unaffected by the signal is Meryl’s squadmate Johnny Sasaki, who transports Snake to safety.

Via an encoded message which is decoded by Sunny, Naomi explains she is being forced to do research for Liquid in South America and asks for Snake’s rescue. Snake enters the South American locale and witnesses Vamp and a cyborg, Laughing Octopus turning the local rebels against him. He is then debriefed by Drebin regarding the Patriots, a network of AI cores that control the nanomachine-laden soldiers and about Liquid’s personnel elite group of female soldiers known as the B&B Corps (Beauty & the Beast Corps).

Snake finds Naomi, who explains that Liquid plans to use Big Boss’ bio metric data as a key to access the Patriots’ core AI and take control of its firearms control system, the SOP. Her tests indicate Snake’s rapid aging is genetic, and that the FOXDIE virus will kill him within six months. Before that, however, Snake will start spreading a deadly mutated version of FOXDIE to the population, causing a deadly epidemic and effectively becoming a walking biological weapon. In the middle of their conversation local PMC members kidnap Naomi, and FROGs attack Snake, ultimately resulting in a fight between Snake and Laughing Octopus. Snake defeats Octopus and pursues Naomi and her kidnappers through the jungle. After retrieving her, Snake and Naomi then make their escape out of the country with the help of Drebin and Raiden, now a cyborg ninja. After a prolonged fight with Vamp, Raiden is severely injured but is able to escape with Snake.

Naomi explains that an Eastern European resistance group possesses the remains of Big Boss. Snake trails a resistance member to their leader, EVA, now under the alias Big Mama. She reveals that she is the surrogate mother to Snake and his nemesis Liquid through a cloning project. Liquid’s armed forces then attack Snake, Big Mama, and the decoy vehicles pretending to transport Big Boss’ remains. Snake helps Big Mama escape to the riverside, where Big Boss’s remains were really kept, but is confronted by Liquid who got there first. Liquid reveals that he no longer needs Big Boss’s body, and that he has already infiltrated the system using his own system core to act as a trojan. U.S. military forces arrive and order Liquid to surrender, but he disables their firearms via his trojan core and destroys the military forces.

Vamp throws Big Boss’s body into the flames, where Big Mama follows to save it. Snake’s fruitless attempt to save her leaves him with a burn scar. Liquid escapes with Naomi, but Otacon’s robot makes it onto Liquid’s gunboat and transmit back a video feed. The video reveals that Liquid plans to destroy the Patriots’ core AI with a nuclear strike using Metal Gear REX’s railgun. Then he will substitute the core with his own to gain control. To this end, he needs a non ID-tagged nuclear warhead from the cache left in the Shadow Moses facility. Snake infiltrates Shadow Moses Island and reaches REX’s hangar only to find that the railgun has been removed and Vamp has been waiting for him, with Naomi at his side. Raiden joins Snake and kills Vamp. Naomi, revealing she is riddled with cancer and tormented by her mistakes, disables her nanomachines holding off the cancer and dies. Snake and Raiden use REX to head out of the hangar. As they emerged at the port area, Liquid arrives in Metal Gear RAY. Snake pilots REX to fight him.

After both Metal Gears are destroyed and Snake incapacitated, Liquid reveals Outer Haven, a colossal submarine ready to fulfill his launch plan. Liquid orders the submarine to ram the dock Snake is on, but Raiden pushes it back. The USS Missouri (BB-63) arrives and starts firing at Outer Haven, forcing it to retreat. Aboard the Missouri, Mei Ling, as a U.S. Navy Captain, orders the battleship to intercept Outer Haven. Seizing the moment it surfaces to launch the nuke, Snake, Meryl, and Johnny board the ship via catapults. Enemy soldiers storm in, with Meryl, Johnny, and Raiden holding them off. When Snake arrives at the core, he uses Otacon’s robot to disable the core AI with a computer virus. The virus does more than they intended due to Naomi and Sunny’s hands in its creation. It not only destroys Liquid’s AI core but also the Patriot system controlling the entire world, leaving the bare necessity for the modern civilization to survive. The destruction of the Patriots brings the war economy to a halt, counteracts the Patriots’ upcoming civilian control scheme, and causes a mental breakdown for the enemy soldiers. Snake, after passing out in the core room, awakes atop Outer Haven’s tower to find Liquid. Snake and Liquid have their final mortal combat, before Snake emerges triumphant.

In the aftermath, Meryl reconciles with Campbell, her estranged father, and marries Johnny. At the wedding, Drebin reveals his origin as a child soldier as well as his role in Patriots’ schemes. He also reveals that Meryl’s patrol unit has been an unwitting pawn used by the Patriots, but they and Drebin are now free. Otacon, after seeing Sunny being so cheerful to be out like a normal child, decides to let her live a normal childhood. Raiden reconciles with Rose after learning that her relationship with Campbell was only a smokescreen to protect Raiden’s family from the Patriots. Standing before the grave of Big Boss, Snake attempts suicide to avert becoming a biological weapon.

Snake cannot bring himself to commit suicide. To Snake’s surprise, Big Boss arrives at the grave site with a vegetative Major Zero on a wheelchair. Big Boss explains that the body burned in Eastern Europe was actually that of the third clone Solidus Snake and reveals that the Patriots were originally an interpretation of The Boss’ will, founded by Major Zero, EVA, Ocelot, Sigint, Para-Medic, and Big Boss himself. While their power increased, two rival factions arose within the Patriots’ ranks: Zero’s, who stood for complete control; and Big Boss’, who dreamed of a soldier’s world. He also explains that Ocelot purposefully used nanomachines and hypnotherapy to implant the persona of Liquid as his own. Over the years, Zero let the newly established AI network assume control, eventually leading to dependence on the war economy, a vision far from The Boss’ original will. Big Boss puts an end to the last remnant of this false vision by shutting down Zero’s life support.

Big Boss informs Snake that the nanomachines Drebin injected into him came with a new strain of FOXDIE, engineered by the Patriot AIs to eradicate the old strains and to kill the rival Patriot faction. Thus, Snake’s presence will kill Big Boss, and Snake has no risk of becoming a biological weapon. Big Boss laments on The Boss’s final wish, concluding that all she wanted was to leave the world as it is, and then dies in Snake’s arms, but not before reconciling with Snake. Taking his father’s words by heart, Snake then decides to live out the rest of his life peacefully with Otacon and Sunny, vowing to live long enough to see what the future holds for the new world he has helped to create.

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