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Metal Gear

The title of the series comes from the one thing the player is sure to do battle against at the end of every game: a "Metal Gear."

In past games, the blanket description for a Metal Gear was "a bipedal (walking) tank with the capability to launch a nuclear warhead from anywhere in the world." Following the events of MGS1, the Metal Gear technology was sold on the black market to the highest bidders, resulting in a U.S. military project, Metal Gear RAY, an "anti-Metal Gear" Metal Gear. The extreme proliferation of Metal Gear technology is evident in MGS4 in the form of "Gekkos:" cybernetic mini Metal Gears that patrol the battlefield autonomously.

Pictured: Metal Gear REX

11/06/08