Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty marks the genesis of many of those ideas. While Snake Eater takes a step backwards chronologically, the end point of Metal Gear Solid’s time line is Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, a game in which the themes surrounding computers, the digital age and war are pushed to their extreme.

Kojima has always been interested in post-World War II history: the Cold War, ideas of nuclear deterrence and the institutions they produce. Regardless of whether you played Metal Gear Solid (and the Tanker chapter of Sons of Liberty) or are new to the series, Kojima establishes computers as the main thematic backdrop for Metal Gear Sold 2: Sons of Liberty. With a single quote, Kojima marks a radical shift in the Metal Gear Solid series. Information Age: People, information, and Technology exhibition- Nation Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute.

Scientists had to make thousands of calculations to create the (atomic bomb) and determine its effects… Computers and atomic bombs, both products of World War II, grew up together.“

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