Metal gear solid 4:story?!?

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could someone please fill me in on the story line of the series, i plan on going to go pick up number four this afternoon, and i hear a lot of people talking about how you should know the storyline from past games, thanks.

my advice to you is to buy the official mgs4 guide. it is $20, but its a good investment as it provides all sorts of helpful hints and tips, a very detailed walkthrough, AND a complete summary of the entire metal gear storyline.



if you dont want to buy it, mgs4 is pretty self explanatory if you watch all of the cutscenes, and you can read up on anything you cant figure out on the metal gear solid database (downloadable for free from the playstation store), which is a pretty decnt source of metal gear info

Honestly, I recommend buying the MGS: Essential Collection. I could explain the whole series to you but theres just so much story and detail that I would be typing for way too long. The Essential Collection is 30 dollars so it not that expensive. You get the first 3 MGS games so you should be able to catch up on the story. The MGS Database isn't that great. Just a big dictionary with hundreds of terms to confuse you. Without playing the first 3, you wont really understand

If you go to the PSN store you can download the Metal Gear Database it has everything you need to know and all the stories in there. Also to prevent spoilers everything in MGS4 is block out and it will reveil itself as you go through the game. Good Luck

You will be lost without playing the other games. Even with the DataBase.



There is no way to explain the series. You can read all about it, but you will still miss it.