

The mission goes horribly wrong when Snake's lifelong mentor and maternal figure, the legendary soldier known as "The Boss", suddenly intervenes to abduct Sokolov and announce her defection to the Soviet Union. To this end, a lone FOX operative codenamed "Naked Snake" is sent deep into enemy territory by the CIA to secure Sokolov and escort him across the Iron Curtain without leaving a trace. The United States of America have formulated a plan to covertly extract a Soviet defector, scientist Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, before he is forced to complete a nuclear superweapon for the USSR. The year is 1964, at the height of the Cold War.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, released in late 2004, did the job with flying colors.

After the highly polarized reception that Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty received, series creator Hideo Kojima had his work cut out for him: make a Metal Gear game that would reunite the series' Broken Base.
