With its much less convoluted story, the game was viewed as a return to form by many. The static indoor maps of the previous games have been swapped out in favor of sprawling outdoor environment, requiring the player to make use of camouflage to stay hidden from enemy sentries, or distract them with a variety of tools, from tranquilizer darts to pornographic magazines, in tried and true Metal Gear fashion. In terms of gameplay and its mechanics, the game puts much more emphasis on survival than previous games, requiring the player to hunt and eat to stay alive, and to heal their wounds manually. With the United States' reputation on the line and the two nations on the verge of World War Three, Snake is sent back to the Soviet Union to help the FOX unit clear its name by taking out Volgin and his secret weapon, as well as The Boss and her Cobra Unit.
Worse yet, she also brings two miniature nuclear warheads to sweeten the deal, one of which is promptly used by her new boss, Colonel Volgin, to pulverize the research facility and frame America for the whole ordeal, after the plane Snake used to enter was picked up on radar within Soviet air space. During the mission, Snake's lifelong mentor and mother figure, The Boss, announces her own defection to the Soviet Union, abducts Sokolov, and brings her own squad, the Cobra Unit, along for the ride. Two years later, American intelligence learns that Sokolov is being forced to create a secret weapon that could turn the Cold War into a blazing hot one, and a plan is formulated to bring Sokolov back to America, as FOX operative codenamed "Naked Snake" is called into action to rescue him from a Soviet weapons lab.
In 1962, Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, a Soviet scientist who previously defected to the West, is forcibly bought back to the other side of the Iron Curtain in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Needless to say, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, released in late 2004, did the job with flying colors and is still considered by many fans as the best game in the Metal Gear series, even after the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. After the release of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and the fanbase's highly polarized reaction to all its changes, Hideo Kojima had his work cut out for him when the time came to make another sequel and reunite the fandom.
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