Metal Gear Solid Walkthrough for PlayStation Game Name: Metal Gear Solid Format: PlayStation Submitted By: sephyvii Metal Gear Solid *Boss Walkthrough* In this walkthrough I will be explaining the best and easiest strategies to beat every boss on the game. This is my own work and has not been copied from any other sources but my own! Name: Revolver Ocelot Location: South of Armoury Difficulty: Easy The easiest way to beat this old duffer is to chase after him like a little school girl around the structure in the middle of the room, where Baker is being held prisoner. When you get half way on each side of the outer path you are chasing him on, whip out your Socom and shoot through the gap diagonally in the direction he’s running. Shoot a couple of times and you’ll probably hit him. The best time to shoot him is when he is reloading, because it takes him so long to do so. Use this to your advantage. Make sure you move straight after you’ve fired or you’re sure to end up with a face full of lead. Repeat this till his life gauge is empty. Just make sure you don’t touch the wires. Otherwise its game over and you will have to start the battle again Name: M1 Tank Location: Canyon Difficulty: Normal/Hard When you get to the middle of the Canyon a Tank will ambush you and the battle will begin. Firstly use a chaff grenade to interfere with the tanks radar. You can now get close to the tank to prevent Raven from firing shells at you. Guards come out from inside the tank and use the machine gun placed on top of the tank. Avoid the bullets by rolling and running around like mad. To take some damage off you’ll need to use your grenades. Pull out the pin and hold it for 2-3 seconds. Quickly face the tank and send it flying (you can also do this in FPV (first person view) which might be a bit easier). If the grenade lands anywhere near the machine gun, then you’ll inflict some damage. If a little cut scene appears of the grenade landing in the guards lap, then you’ve caused a lot of damage. Just repeat this method and you’ll be sure to win. You can use claymores to take out the tracks of the tank to prevent it moving but I wouldn’t because it takes to long as is very tricky to execute correctly. Name: Cyborg Ninja Location: Nuke Building B2 Difficulty: Normal Good old hand-to-hand combat is really the best way to beat the crap out of someone. If you attempt to use a gun, the Ninja will just deflect them with his sword. First things first use a chaff to paralyze him for a short period of time. Now it’s time to attack. Use your punch-punch-kick combo to cause him some damage and repeat this for some time. If he gets to close just hit him quickly and move out of the way. The Ninja uses an attack where he floats above you briefly and lands feet first on top of you. Run out of his way before you’re as flat as a pancake, and when he hits the ground you can get in a few hits before be cartwheels away. Eventually he will turn invisible and you will have to find him. It’s easy to find him because the space where he is will be slightly distorted. When you approach him, he will appear and will try to attack you. Just use your combo quickly and he will hide somewhere else. Find him and repeat these instructions. The Ninja will grow tired of this strategy and become visible again. When you approach him he will teleport behind you and execute a rather hard punch. To avoid being hit either run round him still he tries to punch you, and use your punch-punch-kick combo. Do this a couple of times and the battle will be yours for the taking. Name: Psycho Mantis Location: Commanders room Difficulty: Normal/Hard This battle is only hard if you don’t use the handy trick to stop him from reading your mind. He will make the screen go black and the word Hideo will be in the top left hand corner. There is nothing wrong with your telly, it’s only one of Psycho Mantis’ mind games (and a poor one at that). At this point change your controller from port one to four. This now prevents him from knowing what you’re going to do next. Later on during the battle if he says ‘I can read your mind’ then pause the game and change controller ports. Use your handy FA-MAS for the first part of this battle to take off some damage. Be careful not to get hit by his force balls otherwise you’ll loose quite a bit of your health. Mantis will also use his telekinesis to move objects around the room in order to collide with Snakes face. Just empty you’re FA-MAS on Mantis and he’ll soon enter his next phase of the battle. Mantis will now make Meryl get up and start firing at you. Use a stun grenade to knock her out, but Mantis doesn’t stop there. He now makes Meryl stand up again and puts her gun to her head. Quickly chuck another stun grenade in Meryl’s direction to prevent Meryl killing herself. Once you have done this successfully Mantis will go psycho on you and start firing force balls again like crazy. As he uses the stealth camouflage like the Ninja equip your Thermal goggles to see where he is and fire your FA-MAS or Socom at him. If you run out of bullets then look around the room for some ammo. Try to hit him just before he throws a force ball as well just to take even more health off and prevent him from throwing a ball. If you do this correctly then the victory will be yours for the taking. Name: Sniper Wolf Location: Underground passage Difficulty: Easy Once you’ve obtained a PSG1 from the Armoury head back to the passage and the battle of the sniper begins. Lay down near the wall where Snake hid when Meryl was shot and get out your PSG1. Use some pentazemin to steady your aim once you’ve spotted her. Sniper Wolf is on the upper path at the end of the passage, once she’s in your line of fire take a shot and continue. Head shots take off more damage than usual (obviously) so use this to your advantage. Once you’ve successfully emptied her life gauge, the battle is over. Name: Hind-D Location: Communication Tower Roof Difficulty: Normal The Hind-D is being piloted by your dear brother Liquid and who feels the need to blow Snake to smithereens. Your plan of action is to use your newly found Stinger and launch your missiles at the Hind. The Hind will appear as an orange dot on your radar so be sure to keep track of it. When the Hind is in your sights, whip out your Stinger and aim. The Stinger should lock onto the Hind, when you do this fire a missile and follow the Hind. DIRECT HIT! Repeat this until Liquid shouts ‘Eat this’ and drops a huge load of missiles. They only hit the southeast platform, so steer clear of that and you’ll be fine. There is a ration south of where you entered the roof of the tower. If you need it get it and go back to where you were. Keep launching Stinger missiles until his life gauge is empty. Make sure you have some rations equipped at the end, because Liquid will try and take you down with him. Name: Sniper Wolf Location: Snow Field Difficulty: Normal This second battle against Wolf is a bit harder than before, but still not exactly hard. She now has more places to hide than before. Lay down anywhere and search for her look from left to right and when you’ve spotted her inject yourself with some pentazemin and take a shot. Once you’ve made a direct hit she’ll get up and take refuge somewhere else. In the clearing where she is located, there’s a snow hill which blocks your sight of where she is. Wolf does come out from the other side eventually but sometimes goes back the way she came to confuse you. If you get a chance take a shot at her whilst she’s running. Hit her enough times and she’s down for good. Nice one Snake! Name: Vulcan Raven Location: Warehouse Difficulty: Normal/Hard There are many different ways to take down Ravens life gauge. Some of the best ways are laying claymores and C4’s to take off some of his precious health. Also using the Nikita is very effective. Just fire a rocket and guide it through the Warehouse. Make the rocket come up behind Raven so he doesn’t see it. If he doesn’t notice then you’ll cause some serious damage. If he spots it, he’ll take it down with his trusty Minigun. Lay claymores and C4’s nearby. The claymores will set themselves off and the C4’s need to be set off as soon as Raven is close enough to them. It would be best to lay claymores throughout the Warehouse so you don’t get to close to him. Grenades can come in handy too. Pull the pin, chuck it straight at his bald head and run for cover. If it hits him and he sees you, he will pump you full of lead with bullets bigger than Ian Thorpe’s feet. The battle should be over quickly if you use this method. Name: Metal Gear Rex Location: Underground base Difficulty: Normal Liquid is back and this time he’s piloting Rex! You’ll need your Stinger and a few rations to. On Rex’ shoulder is a circular device called the ‘Radome.’ Use the Stinger to destroy the radome by locking onto it and firing a missile. Use only one missile because Rex might attack and you wouldn’t have enough time to get out of the way, so press R to remove your Stinger quickly and avoid an oncoming attack. Rex uses a Rail gun which you should be able to roll out of the way of. It also uses a laser, use the same tactics as for avoiding the rail gun. Its deadliest attack is when it launches 3 missiles at the same time, but easy to avoid. Run and roll to the opposite side from where you were standing. Continue this and you’ll have won the battle……..or have you? A cut scene takes place of Rex getting back up and Liquid taunts Snake. Enter Grey Fox a.k.a. the Cyborg Ninja and what great timing. He prevents Rex from squashing Snake to a bloody puddle and takes on Rex by himself. It’s really cool. Fox ends up losing one arm and pined up against the wall. He destroys the radome and yells to Snake to shoot at Liquid, for the cockpit is now visible. Snake can’t do it, and Gray Fox ends up at the bottom of Rex’ foot. Snake is out for blood and so the second battle continues. In this battle just use the same tactics as before, only this time aim at Liquid and the battle is over sooner than you would expect. Another cut scene shows Rex flailing around and breaking down. Snake looks up and sees Liquid strolling towards him. Name: Liquid Snake Location: Underground base (on top of Rex) Difficulty: Normal As Liquid has dumped all your gear somewhere, you are forced to do hand-to-hand combat with your dearest brother. Liquid uses a few fighting skills that could be a problem. First use the old punch-punch-kick combo and run around him for a bit. This should trigger his mighty kick. If he misses come in with the punch-punch-kick combo again. Around half way through the fight Liquid will crouch down and prepare to run into you. Either avoid this by rolling out of the way or roll into him to cause some damage. Don’t worry about the time limit because it doesn’t take that long to defeat him. Once his life gauge is empty a cut scene will come into play and show both brothers fighting it to the death. Snake smashes Liquid off Rex and plummets to the ground. ‘Ssnnnaaaakkkkeeee’ You win. Congrats!