Exposition - Video Game: Storytelling - page 68

Need to Know
▪ The player is Solid Snake, an intelligence operative/super-spy.
▪ Snake has sneaked onto a tanker.
▪ Snake's mission is to obtain evidence the tanker is carrying a danger-
ous weapon .
▪ Snake's first objective is to go to the ship's bridge, to see where the
tanker is headed .
▪ Stealthy, deadly invaders have taken over the ship.
Could Wait
▪ Snake has a techie/hacker partner named Otacon.
▪ The stealth camouflage is broken.
▪ Snake and Otacon now work in the private sector.
▪ The technical specs of Metal Gear were sold on the black market after
Shadow Moses.
▪ This was someone named Ocelot's doing.
▪ Every state, group, and dotcom now has its own version of Metal
Gear.
▪ This new Metal Gear is designed to wipe the floor with the others.
▪ The new Metal Gear is described as an amphibious, anti-Metal Gear
vehicle.
▪ This new Metal Gear is under Marine Corps jurisdiction.
▪ The reason Otacon wants to know where the tanker is headed is that
the destination might provide clues as to the Metal Gear's capabilit-
ies.
▪ Snake should avoid confrontations .
▪ Snake and Otacon are not terrorists.
▪ Snake and Otacon work for PHILANTHROPY now, an anti-Metal Gear
organization officially recognized by the U.N.