Hal “Otocon” Emmerich designed the mech, believing it would be used as an anti-nuclear weapon. Developed in secrecy at Shadow Moses Island in Alaska*, Metal Gear REX was backed by DARPA and built by weapons firm ArmsTech. Revolver Ocelot, working for the CIA, stole Granin’s Metal Gear drawings. Naked Snake and EVA eventually destroy the Shagohod, which left no descendants in the MGS series. Additionally, since the Archimedes’ screws are its only normal movement method, damage to those screws renders the tank immobile. The Shagohod is also outfitted with machine guns, a volley gun, and surface-to-air missiles to stave off enemy forces in combat zones.ĭespite its considerably capabilities, the Shagohod is gimped by a number of factors: in order to be effective as an IRBM launcher, the Shagohod must have an enormous amount of flat land to achieve the proper acceleration. The Shagohod is propelled via Archimedes’ screws for normal movement, but the rear compartment houses immense rocket boosters, allowing the Shagohod to build up considerable speed before launching its IRBM, which then has a range of some 6,000 miles. The Shagohod’s purpose is to launch nuclear-capable IRBMs (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) without the need for a rocket. Interestingly, Granin also drew up plans for a weapon that would later become Metal Gear REX. The Shagohod, designed by Soviet engineer Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin, was built by Nikolai Sokolov under the thumb of Colonel Yevgeny Volgin. All Metal Gears are essentially bipedal tanks, and most of them are nuclear-capable.
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Surprisingly, the MGS series does not begin with a Metal Gear-type weapon.
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For example, Metal Gear RAXA and Metal Gear ZEKE-both from the PSP games-are not included below, and neither are the original Metal Gear or its successor, Metal Gear D. For fun, and to give some indication of how complex the plotline is in the MGS series, I’ve written this piece, which details the main Metal Gear archetypes across all the MGS games. Nintendo fans have only gotten a look at one other Metal Gear model, in The Twin Snakes. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D released this week on 3DS, and its story serves as the beginning of the entire MGS saga.
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