Metal Gear Solid

Revolver Ocelot , also known as Shalashaska is a fictional character and antagonist of the Metal Gear series. He was originally introduced as a... gunslinger-themed member of FOXHOUND from the former Soviet Union in Metal Gear Solid and was revealed to be an agent for The Patriots in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty . He appears in the prequels Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops as a young Spetsnaz Major where he is identified simply as Ocelot , and whose real name is Adamska , and eventually becomes Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots . He is normally clothed in a duster, spurs and gunbelts, the traditional garb of gunslingers in spaghetti westerns, as well as a black armband on his left arm, and wields the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which he refers to as "the greatest handgun ever made" and quoting to Snake in MGS "Six bullets, more than enough to kill anything that moves" represents Ocelot's clever remarks toward his marksmanship.
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Liquid Snake is a recurring antagonist in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series. Liquid Snake is introduced in Metal Gear Solid as the main antagonist.... He is the twin brother of Snake and second of the three cloned Sons of Big Boss produced by the Les Enfant Terribles Project conducted in early 1970s and which were successfully born in 1972. Liquid joined the British SAS and served in the first Iraq War as a teenager at the same time that Solid Snake was serving as an infantry man for the Green Berets, though neither of the two met during this period. In 1991 Liquid was assigned to work as a sleeper agent and destroy enemy rocket installations, but was found out and held captive as a POW until 1994 when he was finally rescued. Eventually in the year 2000 Liquid became the commanding officer of the FOXHOUND Unit, coincidentally right directly after Solid Snake had gone into retirement. Liquid Snake is introduced in Metal Gear Solid as the main antagonist. He is the twin brother of Solid Snake and the second of Big Boss' clones.
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on... April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees .
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Konami Corporation is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games. Konami is famous for games such as the Metal Gear series, Dance Dance Revolution series, Castlevania... series, Contra series, Pro Evolution Soccer series, Yu-Gi-Oh! series, Silent Hill series, Gradius series, and Frogger series. The company was founded in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, the still-current chairman and president. The name "Konami" is a conjunction of the names Kagemasa Kozuki , Yoshinobu Nakama, and Tatsuo Miyasako. Konami is currently headquartered in Tokyo and additionally operates health and physical fitness clubs in Japan. Konami also operates United States activities in El Segundo, California for video games and Paradise, Nevada for the casino gaming industry. Its Australian gaming operations are located in Sydney, Australia, and distribution of Konami's games in Australia is handled by Mindscape Australia.
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Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Games for Windows and Windows Phone platforms. They were established in 2002 as Microsoft Game Studios to coincide with the release of the Xbox, before... being re-branded in 2011. Microsoft Studios develops and publishes games in conjunction with first and third party development studios under their publishing label.
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