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Solid Snake grew up an orphan.
Overheating in video games involves guns and vehicles experiencing an increase in temperature leading to reduced efficiency or accuracy, damage or even destruction.
A partner is someone in a duo that shares the same status and/or billing. In video games, you often switch from one to the other because they have different strengths and weaknesses.
In Metal Gear Solid, if Solid Snake stares in first person at Meryl's breasts for too long, she punches Snake in the face.
An advanced shading model, including diffuse, ambient and specular shading, with per-pixel lighting. Developed by Bui Tuong Phong, it was introduced to gaming with the Sega Hikaru arcade system in 1999. Since the mid-2000s, it has been the most widely used shading model in modern 3D video games.
Whether it's taking pictures of things for points or as part of a journal, photography is playing an ever increasing role in many of today's video games.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
Solid Snake must play dead in the holding cell in order to escape in Metal Gear Solid.
These games, franchises, characters, or companies have some connection with PlayStation Home. They could have some related digital wares available, have their own Space, or even be playable.
The whole Metal Gear Solid series is filled with twists of plot.
The political thriller is a story, often action-oriented, that tends to revolve around two or more nations struggling to gain power. Outcomes are usually found through military confrontations, covert wars, and back alley negotiating.
In every single Metal Gear Solid game that Solid Snake has starred in (and every other one anyway), there has been a post-credit scene that explains something, or adds depth to a future plot.
PMCs provide mercenary soldiers and/or military consultancy to those in need of such services in exchange for payment. They are an increasingly integral, and often controversial, part of many modern wars and conflicts.
Product placement is the act of using branded products in high visibility settings inside movies and games in exchange for special consideration, financial purchases or otherwise. In recent years, it has become more apparent.
Solid Snake has proclaimed words like "shit".
The ability to lie down on the ground.
When the character the player is controlling dies as part of the game's plotline.
Solid Snake has used pseudonyms like Iriquois Plisken, and Old Snake.
Solid Snake replaces his regular stamina bar with a Psyche Gauge in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Solid Snake is part of the start of this. All his enemies have this over their heads.
Radiation is energy in the form of waves or moving subatomic particles emitted by an atom or other body. Radiation in videogames is typically represented as a field, inside of which units will take damage.
Solid Snake had ragdoll physics in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
The Rat Patrol are his friends.
Often appearing in role-playing games, the reluctant hero starts out not wanting to fight, but ends up getting drawn into the conflict nonetheless. If not forced into it against their will, they are often motivated by love, honor, or a sense of righteousness.
Solid Snake always rebels against the evil forces around.
In Metal Gear Online, he respawns if he dies.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
Two or more factions, either with the same or completely different goals, that constantly try to one-up each other. The player is sometimes forced to pick a side to root or work for during the struggle. Other times the rivalry is only mentioned in the plot.
Solid Snake rolls forward in his games.
Solid Snake has a small romance with Meryl in Metal Gear Solid.
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