 You take on the role of Solid Snake: a relatively young, retired soldier from an elite government team known as Foxhound. When some of Foxhound s top operatives form a terrorist organization and gain control of a secret genome army of Next-Generation Special Forces (rogue U.S. troops participating in rebellion), take over the nuclear weapons facility on Shadow Moses Island and threaten the United States government with a nuclear attack wave from the ultimate killing machine (the nuclear-equipped walking battle tank, Metal Gear Rex) Snake s former commander, Colonel Roy Campbell (ret.), sends armed soldiers to Snake s peaceful Alaskan home, drags him to a secret base, and puts the whole situation in his hands. Snake s mission is to rescue the D.A.R.P.A. Chief and the President of ArmsTech Inc., then stop the entire terrorist force from launching a nuclear weapon. He begins armed with a pair of binoculars and a pack of cigarettes, and has nineteen hours to bring down the terrorists and save the nation.