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A summary of controversial topics in this game, besides the violence.
'''Metal Gear Solid''' is the first in a long line of Playstation based stealth [[Video game|action games]]. The series deal primarily with conspiracy theories involving nuclear weapons, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and censorship. With the exception of Metal Gear Solid 3, every game is played mostly through the eyes of the character Solid Snake.
'''Metal Gear Solid''' is the first in a long line of Playstation based stealth [[Video game|action games]]. The series deal primarily with conspiracy theories involving nuclear weapons, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and censorship. With the exception of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Solid Snake is the main playable character.
In each installment, Snake would have to sneak into a place occupied with either terrorists or communists and rescue important government or military officials then destroy a "Metal Gear" and defeat super human bosses.
In each installment, Snake would have to sneak into a place occupied with either terrorists or communists and rescue important government or military officials then destroy a "Metal Gear" and defeat super human bosses.
Despite being created by Japanese video game producer, Hideo Kojima, the series intensely related to American politics.
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==Terrorism==
All four games in the series released so far have featured terrorists as the enemies.
In Metal Gear Solid 1, an Alaskan military base is taken over by a terrorist group known as Foxhound, headed by Liquid Snake.
In Metal Gear Solid 2, a cleanup facility is hijacked by a terrorist group known as Dead Cell, headed by Solidus.
In Metal Gear Solid 3, a prequel set during the Cold War, a Russian terrorist group takes command of nuclear weapons. The player is under the impression that an American "patriot" known as The Boss betrays the United States. The U.S. president secretly works with the Russian president by sending an agent on a sneaking mission.
In Metal Gear Soild 4, a continuation of 2, a private military company battles a computer system known as "The Patriots." Many weapons are constantly hijacked.
==Cloning, Stem Cells, and Abortion==
The character Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus are all clones of the super soldier Big Boss. In the method described in the game in vitro fertilization is used with eight embryos, and five of them are aborted to give rise to the clones.
Big Boss, after having been "mortally wounded," supposedly survives by being cryogenically frozen, then stem cells heal him.
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