Hideo Kojima is a recognized genius of the gaming industry. And if people who played his creations understand what they are talking about, then most use this expression just joke for. In addition to that big and sensual story about soldiers without the homeland and horror of war, there is another aspect that allows you to sing praises to this person. No one doubted that Kojima was quite erudite in various areas and you can understand this, just playing his games. Passing the MGS, your rumor very often clings to familiar names and it seems that you have already heard similar names somewhere. Having figured out, it turns out that you heard them in your daily life. Real events are so competently and subtly woven into the narrative (tell this to crocodiles in Siberia) that sometimes, despite all the fantastic of the plot, it seems that the basis of everything was a true story. Moreover, sometimes he managed to literally predict the future. He generated the unfolding plot on the basis of a modern, so to speak, geopolitical situation and transferred events for 10 years ahead with the logical evolution of what is happening in the present. And somehow turned out to be very reliable. It came to the point that the Death Stranding 2 script had to be rewritten, so as not to incur it again, as it turned out with the first part and couriers, as an indispensable unit of society during Covid. All this is what if the plot of games is so closely related to world history, let’s disagree these connections and consider the “historical context of Metal Gear Solid”.

As part of the video, I will discuss various events and technologies that were mentioned in the game in one way or another, and which took place in real history, and if it seems to you that I missed something or was wrong somewhere, then I ask for mercy in the commentary.

The briefing says that we need to save DARPA director Donald Anderson. This office is the US Department of Defense, responsible for the development of new technologies, of course for military purposes. They also financed the development of Arpanet, the prototype of the modern Internet, as well as Unix operating systems and the well -known TCP \ IP protocols.

Solid should get to the base of the solid in the delivery apparatus of combat swimmers and if in the game this is quite compact transport, an episode with which, by the way, Kojima took from the sequel of his beloved film an escape from Los Angeles, then in reality they were much more. Such units are more likely something that Anatoly Papanov sailed away in the film "Diamond hand". The only more or less similar copy is the Iranian Al-Sabehat 15, which, according to assumptions, was used to install underwater mines during an incident in the Oman Gulf in 2019, where two oil tankers were attacked.

During a conversation on the codec, Colonel Campbell mentions that we hear the sound due to exposure to small bones in the ear. If ordinary headphones convey sound vibrations first to the outer ear, then such devices pass this through the fluctuations through the zygomatic bones directly to the internal. A similar principle is used in hearing aids, in headset for the army allowing active headphones, or keeping ears open. Well, in the new -fashioned Google Glass costs the same stray.

Having risen on the elevator, Naomi is contacted with a Snake, they love to chat here, and during dialogue she mentions a certain “antifreeze peptide”. This is a protein that accumulates around ice crystals slowing down their growth. In theory, it will help living organisms survive at low temperatures, and in practice they are used only to preserve the texture of skim ice cream.

Further, all the same colonel speaks of two F – 16 who flew out of Galina and there is no woman here. It’s about the airport located in the city of the same name in Alaska. And May Ling mentions Soliton Radar, who does not exist in reality, but developed on the basis of the equation of Corteveg-de Friz, which is a mathematical model of vibrations of waves on shallow surfaces. Well, now you can start an exciting gameplay with crawling on a belly and hide and seek. If something is not sarcasm.

At the first meeting with a revolver, he turns the cavalry cloth in his hands. This model was released by Kolt Fire Arms Company in 1873 and had a barrel length of 19 centimeters, and a little later an artillery version with a length of 14 centimeters appeared. Almost immediately, the US Army took it into service.

After their battle, during which the opponents tried to crush each other with showers than well -as hits, Kenneth Baker mentions nuclear disarmament. This is a process that has been happening since the Caribbean crisis, when the USSR and the USA massively increased the nuclear arsenal. In 1963, the UN Disarmament Committee created a non -proliferation agreement, according to which countries do not have the right to transfer this weapon of mass destruction to other countries.

And in 1972 and 1979, two agreements were signed on the “restriction of strategic weapons”, which, as the name understanding, limited the number of ballistic missiles at the level that they possessed at that time. Well, later three agreements were signed on the “reduction of offensive weapons”, which Baker spoke about, mentioning the discontent of this launched companies, and the problems arising from this with the storage of nuclear waste.

Later, in a conversation with https://jettbetcasino.uk/ Natasha Romanenko, the organization Nuclear Emergency Support Team is mentioned, which is a real organization founded in the US Department of Defense, after the FBI received a message about the nuclear bomb in Boston, and the group of experts and the equipment necessary for the search arrived at different airports. All this turned out to be a fake, but to prevent such incidents, the government created this organization. It’s only funny that in the game one of its members is a Russian woman, well, okay.

Before the next boss with a Snape, someone is connected under the pseudonym "Deep Sip" to the sending one yourself understand what. And if you thought about the 1972 film about a woman with Clitter in the throat, then there is no even at the same time. We are talking about, also mentioned, the Watergagic scandal, when from the hand of the current president Richard Nixon, who was preparing to re-elect for a second term, a wiretapping was organized at the headquarters of his competitor, a candidate from the Democratic Party George McGovern.

Everything was revealed when a group was arrested at the headquarters, which was engaged in the installation of listening equipment. It was a loud trial, which lasted two years and as a result of which Nixon was announced impeachment. And the most “deep sip” was the deputy director of the FBI Mark Felt, who conducted this business and merged information on investigating to journalists from the Washington Post, who approached the case with humor, and lifting their informant. Later this name became a household name for people who have a danger of data.

After the next portion of Stlax, one-on-one battle with a tank, like a grandfather in the “Great Patriotic War” and a fight with a cyber-ninja as in “Russian-Japanese” (they still know that throughout history the Japanese have always been in service with Mexhoi) Snakes gets to Dr. Emerych, more known as Otakon, who says that Metal GER is armed with a railway. His concept was invented by the French inventor Andre Louis Octave Foshon-Vilple in 1917. Later, during the First World War, the development of a prototype of 50 mm of a gun began, the project of which was abandoned after its end, but was later patented by it in the United States as an “electric for throwing shells”. There were still five more of such breakthroughs in the field of electromagnetic guns within the twentieth century, including in Russia, but now attempts are not stopped to create a compact and effective railway.

Moreover, according to the same Otakon, it was invented together with the Livermanship National Laboratory, financed by the US Department of Energy and is part of the University of California. This office was based in 1952 with one purpose – the development of nuclear weapons. And after that, Otakon’s grimacing that he did not know why Rex was being built somewhat ridiculous. A man you created it with a management for whom this is a fundamental task, well, okay.

In fact, for Kojima, as for any Japanese, a nuclear weapon is rather painful, which in addition to genes is the main leitmotif of the game. For example, the grandfather of this very Animeshnik participated in the “Manhattan project”, led by the notorious Robert Oppenheimer (almost a release), and in which the “baby” and “fat man” were created, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And his father was born on the day of the impact in the first city, here is such an irony.

Metal Gear is literally the main anti -war work in the history of video games. In my opinion, only Spec Ops: The Line got close to this, in my opinion. In each part, he talks about the hard fate of the soldier and what he receives after the battle ends. They have no place in the ordinary world, because war is the only thing they can. They regard themselves not as heroes, but as pawns – tools, thanks to which the powers that be solve their geopolitical interests. For peace for such people and Big Boss fought.

On his way, Snape meets the same fighters as he, who are actually ruined lives and children of war, who swear, become stronger to give rise to the same children of war that will replace them in this cycle from murders, blood and pain. And if you compare events from the game and our world, it looks frighteningly realistic.

Remember I said that Kojima predicted the future. So back in 1998, he mentioned the signing of the third agreement on the “reduction of offensive weapons”, which was supposed to happen, just on the day when the main actions of the game are unfolding. At that time, the second agreement was still active, which was never ratified until 2000, and the agreements on the first existed until 2009. Let me remind you that events take place in 2005, and the third contract was signed in 2010. So here’s another proof of his genius, though with an error for five years.

And then follows a real Hollywood blockbuster with intrigues, torture betrayal and losses. A real espionage action movie, which is actually made in the title. Which could not be otherwise, because the author stated that it consists of a movie by 70 percent and generally dreamed of becoming a director. Given the timing of Kitszen in his creations, we can say that he achieved his. He simply could not do something else, absorbing a huge number of films from childhood and naturally anime.

The typical image of animeshnik in culture is associated with a person who does not have a second half, so so that Otakon corresponds to his name Snake kills his love nicknamed Sniper Wulf, who on the verge of death tells us the heartbreaking history of his life surrounded by a constant war of the Kurdish people. This topic is quite extensive, as in principle, all the rest, but we will try to tell about it literally in a few lines. Kurds are an ethnic group living in the mountainous regions of Turkey, Iraq and Syria and persecuted by the government of Turkey itself. The Kurdish language is prohibited, and the official government calls them only "mountain Turks".

In this regard, since the 20s of the last century, they have been creating parties and partisan detachments to struggle independence and autonomy as part of the former Ottoman Empire. During this long time there was a truce, and unification against a common enemy, and a civil war between the Kurds themselves in connection with different views of the leaders. (and in general) an unstable geopolitical situation in the countries of the Middle East made its adjustments to this confrontation, which continues to this day. It is not surprising that in such conditions such a soldier as a sniper Wulf could appear.

Subsequently, the master Miller, who convicted Naomi Hunter in lies, is associated with Snay. This is from the fact that in the 50s, as head of the FBI, Edgar Hoover stood, who, according to the assurances of many journalists, was a racist, and Grandfather Naomi was a Japanese, which already contradicts literally dictatorial methods of his business. For example, after establishing a position, he immediately fired all women from the bureau. His confrontation is also known to Martin Luther King and the Cointelpro program, where without the approval of the government, information was monitored and collected about citizens who, in his opinion, were not indifferent to the Communists, as well as about people who criticized such methods and expressed about human rights violations.

After his death in 1972, a letter surfaced from the deputy Hoover Martin Luther King, to whom the recording of the sexual pleasures of the civil rights fighter and the veiled proposals to make suicide. Despite the praising odes about the head of the FBI, he was wanted to remove the four presidents, but perhaps, due to the fear of the incriminating evidence, this did not happen, and he remained at the post until his death.

Which he seems to have already given the volcano Ravenu, but the second fight with an Indian armed minigan and, it is not clear why the side of it, on his back cannot be avoided. He, in a fit of Foxhaund widespread among members, mentions eastern blood in the veins of the Snayka and their kinship, as an Asian and Inuite. Inuits are the indigenous people of North America, which lives in the north of Canada and are part of the "Eskimos". Since the main character has lived in Alaska for the past few years, Raven notes that he might know about the Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games. This event takes place every year and sets its goal to preserve the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of Alaska, competing in strength and dexterity in their traditional games like “tugs with ears”, also mentioned by an antagonist.

Marming up to Metal Gear, we purely accidentally eavesdropping on the conversation of Liquid and Oblast about the intention to launch a warhead for a testing ground in China. In this dialogue, the Oblos mentions a certain CTBT or the “comprehensive prohibition of nuclear tests”, from which it becomes clear that it controls it specifically. This document was adopted by the United Nations in 1996, but was not ratified by eight countries including the United States.

Most of all I like how masterfully intertwined the real events and events of the game. For example, the well -known “Gulf of Persian War Syndrome”, which was found among veterans of the armed conflict of the same name, the purpose of which was the confrontation between Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. So, according to the official statements of the authorities, the symptoms were caused by two factors: post -traumatic stress disorder and Zarin poisoning. Kojima proposed his version in which the fighters were genetically modified on the basis of the Big Boss DNA, and the symptoms that appeared are side effects of a failed experiment.

And this is actually still in bulk and some are even explained by the characters of the game themselves, which is commendable. I could miss a lot, like insignificant terms or abbreviations, but believe me, if I missed them past the eyes, then Kojima has all this meaning and my deep background. Let from a gameplay point of view, the series provides us with many opportunities, from which it is preferable to use a tranquilizer, but this is just a titanic creation, which I will not tire of repeating and which it deserves.

The purpose of this project is the usual interest, interest in events, the details of which I do not know, but their mention is somehow found in the game, plunging into which you will learn something new and expand your horizons. Write how a similar video format for you will be and what other games need such a presentation.

Thank you for your attention and remember, it’s better to fight on virtual, not real battlefields. For now.