Overview of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
System: MSX2 (released 1990)

The Story
By 1999, the world's nuclear superpowers had improved their diplomatic relations with each other, and they agreed to dismantle their nuclear weapons. In this environment of coming peace, a small Middle Eastern nation called Zanzibar created a new military regime and began raiding the larger nations' nuclear disposal sites. At the same time, the world was experiencing an energy crisis due to a rapidly diminishing supply of oil. To combat this threat, Dr. Kio Marv invented a microorganism called OILIX that could refine crude oil. Naturally, he was kidnapped by Zanzibar.

The militaristic Zanzibar had established itself as controller of the world's energy and nuclear weapons, and only the best secret agent would be able to infiltrate the country and rescue Dr. Marv.

New Fox Hound commander Roy Campbell thus called upon Solid Snake, now in retirement, to take the job. Again acting entirely on his own, Snake penetrated Zanzibar's defenses and made it into the heart of the militant country. It would seem that Big Boss's betrayal in Outer Heaven was not the end of Fox Hound treachery, however, as Snake discovered that Grey Fox, the first special agent sent into Outer Heaven four years before, was leader of Zanzibar's mercenary force. Snake defeated Grey Fox in battle and went on to pursue Dr. Marv. Snake retrieved the OILIX microorganism, ensuring the world a new source of energy, but in the process he again encountered none other than Big Boss, who had survived the destruction of Outer Heaven and gone on to found Zanzibar's empire. Big Boss was, of course, accompanied by a new Metal Gear. Snake again defeated both Metal Gear and Big Boss and then fled Zanzibar in the midst of its destruction.

After Solid Snake's series of harrowing battles, he again retired, this time to the Alaskan wilderness. But the evil intentions of those who hunger for power would ensure that Snake's retirement was short-lived....


Source: Gamespot History of Metal Gear