Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Solid Snake is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Konami's Metal Gear series of stealth video games. Created by Hideo Kojima, Metal... Gear is Konami's main franchise and has sold approximately 26.5 million units as of February 2009. Introduced in the first game of the series, Metal Gear , Snake has appeared in the majority of subsequent games and spin-offs. Japanese voice actor Akio Ōtsuka voices Snake in Japanese, while actor and screenwriter David Hayter provides the English voice of the character. In his guest appearance in Ape Escape 3, he is voiced in English by Peter Lurie. Solid Snake is a combination spy, special operations agent and mercenary of FOXHOUND, a fictional black operations and espionage unit. He is repeatedly tasked with disarming and destroying the latest incarnation of Metal Gear, a bipedal nuclear weapon-armed mecha. Controlled by the player, Solid Snake must act alone , supported via radio by commanding officers and specialists.
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Big Boss is a recurring fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear video game franchise. He is first introduced in the original Metal Gear as the... commanding officer of protagonist Solid Snake, only to be revealed as the leader of the enemy forces as well, a role he would resume in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Big Boss would play a key role in the backstory of the series beginning with the first Metal Gear Solid, where he is revealed to be the genetic father of Solid Snake and along with his other clone sons, Liquid and Solidus. In addition to his role in the sequels, Big Boss also appears as the protagonist in a series of prequels set before the events of the original Metal Gear , where he is depicted as an American covert operative codenamed Naked Snake , the partial namesake of Solid Snake and his brothers. As Naked Snake, the character is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese and David Hayter in English.
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Ocelot , also known as Shalashaska and whose real name is Adamska , is a fictional character of the Metal Gear series. He was originally introduced... in Metal Gear Solid as a gunslinger-themed member of FOXHOUND from the former Soviet Union under the full codename of Revolver Ocelot and is 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 eventually becomes Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots .
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Harry Gregson-Williams is a British composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He is best known for his many film scores, of which he has composed over sixty. He is also well known for his collaborations with director Tony Scott, having scored all his films since the 1998 film Enemy of the State. Gregson-Williams is one of the most recognized and respected musicians and film composers of all times for his musical style and he's... considered a pioneer and one of the first film score composers combining electronic music textures and orchestral elements. Early in his career, Gregson-Williams held a position in the 1980s as a music teacher to pupils at the Amesbury School in Hindhead, Surrey, England . Also in the 1980s Harry was an estate agent for Palmer Snell in Wells Somerset. He later taught music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he had been a pupil, and also for a short period in Egypt and other African states.
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Shuyo Murata is a Japanese video game designer, working for Kojima Productions. He was originally a director of audio drama series in Japan, including the audio drama version of Metal Gear Solid.

Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer originally employed at Konami. Formerly the vice president of Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, he is currently the Executive Corporate Officer Director of Kojima Productions. He is the creator and director of a number of successful games, including the Metal Gear series, Snatcher, and Policenauts and also produced both the Zone of the Enders and Boktai series. Kojima is consistently named by... fans and industry experts alike as being one of the most influential and innovative video game directors and writers of all time. Newsweek named Hideo Kojima as one of the top ten people of 2002. In 2008, Next-Gen placed him #7 in their list of "Hot 100 Developer 2008." In early 2009, IGN placed him sixth in their Top 100 Game Creators of All Time list. He has also been awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award handed to a game designer at the 2008 MTV Game Awards and was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963, Kojima moved to western Japan at the age of three.
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