Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
MPO is the fourth Metal Gear title developed specifically for the PSP, and the first to retain the series' action-based gameplay mechanics. It is the first canonical spin-off of the Metal Gear Solid series for a portable platform and picks up the storyline from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Set in 1970 Colombia, six years after the events of Snake Eater, the game follows the exploits of Naked Snake after his former unit FOX goes rogue. The game also tells about the creation of the FOXHOUND and the Patriots, as well as the creation of the military state of Outer Heaven. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops was very well received by critics and is often considered one of the best games released for the PSP. It was praised for its graphics, use of Metal Gear elements and story, while criticism was related to the game's controls.
Story
Portable Ops is set in 1970, six years after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. It follows soldier Naked Snake (David Hayter/Akio Ōtsuka), who is forced to fight his former unit, the FOX, after it incites an uprising in a South American base. In his fight, he encounters Roy Campbell (David Agranov/Toshio Furukawa), a surviving member of the Green Berets team sent to investigate the affair. Snake's former teammates, including his commanding officer Major Zero (Jim Piddock/Banjō Ginga), Para-Medic (Heather Halley/Houko Kuwashima) and Sigint (James C. Mathis III/Keiji Fujiwara), return as support crew as they are suspected of treason alongside Snake. The main antagonist is Gene (Steven Blum/Norio Wakamoto), the current commander of the FOX unit, who wants to create his own military nation. He is a product of the successor project that aims to artificially create the perfect commander along the lines of The Boss. He is assisted by Lt. Cunningham (Noah Nelson/Daisuke Gōri), an expert in interrogation techniques. (Gene also has a protégé named Elisa (Tara Strong/Saori Goto), who is endowed with extraordinary psychic abilities, presumably due to radioactive fallout during the Kyschtym disaster. Elisa suffers from dissociative identity disorder and has developed a second personality named Ursula', whose psychic abilities are stronger than those of her "Elisa" personality. As "Ursula" she works as a member of FOX, while her "Elisa" personality is a paramedic who takes care of zero and is an informant for Snake. Snake meets Elisa, who first tells him that she and Ursula are twin sisters, only to learn the truth later. Two FOX members previously associated with Snake are Null (Larc Spies/Jun Fukuyama), a teenage assassin trained to be the perfect soldier, and Python (Dwight Schultz/Yusaku Yara), a former war buddy of Snake's who was presumed dead during the Vietnam War. Other characters include Ghost (Brian Cummings/Naoki Tatsuta), an informant who comes into contact with Snake and reveals the existence of ICBMG, the new Metal Gear prototype, Ocelot (Josh Keaton/Takumi Yamazaki), Ocelot (Josh Keaton/Tumi Yamazaki), a former Spetsnaz major who assists Gene behind the scenes, EVA (Vanessa Marshall/Misa Watanabe), a spy for the PLA who helped Snake in Snake Eater, and Raikov (Charlie Schlatter/Kenyu Horiuchi), a GRU major. Teliko Friedman (Kari Wahlgren/Yūko Nagashima) and Venus (Kathryn Fiore/Rika Komatsu), the heroines from Metal Gear Acid and Metal Gear Acid 2, respectively, can both be added to the player's squad by either completing certain side missions or starting the second playthrough with the save data from their respective games.
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