During the height of the Cold War, a stoic soldier trained in stealth combat overcame technologically superior foes on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Africa. No, this isn’t the story of John Rambo or Jason Bourne – though you’d be forgiven for assuming as much. It’s the hard-boiled tale of one Solid Snake, the heroic lone wolf at the heart of video game auteur Hideo Kojima’s wildly popular Metal Gear games.
A self-proclaimed film buff, Kojima’s ludography is shot through with cinematic influences. In Metal Gear, underdog squadrons are thrust into high-stakes missions à la The Guns of Navarone. More recently, Death Stranding’s extended cutscenes rival the storytelling of the best Hollywood movies.
