[Preventer Wind]

Gamers .com: We're familiar with stealth as the key element in the Metal Gear games, but Metal Gear Solid 3 adds survival as a companion to that. How does wilderness survival gameplay work beyond simply having to hunt and eat, when he's confronted by the environment as well as his enemies?

Kojima: Probably two-thirds of the entire game takes place in the wilderness. Not only the jungle, but just general non-building areas. The thing is, the element of survival doesn't just involve filling your stomach. If it's cold, you have to fight the temperature, you have to fight the weather. There are enemies that aren't just enemy soldiers, too -- animals, snakes and the like attacking you. If you get sick, if you break a bone, you'll have to work around those problems as well.

Well that should certainly exclude any ideas that showing us footage of the wilderness seens are fake... But that means 1/3 of the game must take place inside buildings (I'm a math wizard ).

However I think mark0™ was on to something with the name of the game. Obviously the classified mech is a Metal Gear. And since Solid is in the title...you kind of figure you are going to control Solid Snake at least some part of the game.

As for it being Outer Heaven...it could be. The only thing that doesn't make sense is the year.

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That is Big Boss you are talking too. He sent in Solid Snake because he was the newest member and he thought he would fail... That's my understanding of it.