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As the darkest games of the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' franchise, this game has some A-grade military terror.

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* Camp Omega. To elaborate, Camp Omega is a not-so-subtle commentary of the real-life "black site" known as Guantanamo Bay, where foreign insurgents in the United States are taken and tortured relentlessly Several of the things that happen to people in Camp Omega (awful living conditions, immense physical and psychological torture, and sadomasochistic interrogation) are happening right now. The things you see done to Chico, Paz, and the other prisoners of the camp aren't created purely out of imagination. These are real things happening to real people.

* Camp Omega.
** To elaborate, Camp Omega is a not-so-subtle commentary of the real-life "black site" known as Guantanamo Bay, where foreign insurgents in the United States are taken and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Unperson tortured relentlessly]] Several of the things that happen to people in Camp Omega (awful living conditions, immense physical and psychological torture, and sadomasochistic interrogation) are happening right now. The things you see done to Chico, Paz, and the other prisoners of the camp aren't created purely out of imagination. These are real things happening to real people.

** To elaborate, Camp Omega is a not-so-subtle commentary of the real-life "black site" known as Guantanamo Bay, where foreign insurgents in the United States are taken and tortured relentlessly. Several of the things that happen to people in Camp Omega (awful living conditions, immense physical and psychological torture, and sadomasochistic interrogation) are happening right now. The things you see done to Chico, Paz, and the other prisoners of the camp aren't created purely out of imagination. These are real things happening to real people.

As one of the darkest games of the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' franchise, this game has some A-grade military terror.

** To sum up Skull Face's atrocities, he [[spoiler: repeatedly tortures both Paz and Chico, he rapes Paz and then forces Chico to have sex with her, he has screws drilled into Chico's heels (a permanent way to ensure someone doesn't walk, much less run, again), implants a bomb into Paz's stomach, and then implants another bomb within her vagina knowing that Big Boss will come to her rescue (essentially taking out Big Boss as well). Then, after he departs, he annihilates Mother Base. The bomb implanted in Paz blows up, causing Big Boss' nine year coma.]] Damn.

** Said horrific backstory? Relayed to an unidentified man that Skull Face has tortured so brutally that he's incapable of talking and is gasping for breath the entire audio log. Skull Face tries to "educate" this man, invoke in him a desire for revenge like the kind that burns so deeply in his own soul. Skull Face wants to see if this man can live for revenge, prove that he's not the only one who can live that way. The audio log ends with the tortured man dying, with Skull Face giving a dissatisfied groan of disapproval.

* The sight of the once noble Big Boss, who never believed in gunning down defenseless people, ruthlessly massacring a group of helpless African prisoners. It's stuff like this that shows you that our hero is finally taking the jump off the deep end. God forbid you get in the way of this demon when he has his sights set on you.

* Miller mutilated by torture, with his right arm removed at the shoulder and his left foot cut off at the ankle, a pathetic heap of the man he used to be. While torture sessions in the past were no cake walk it's horrifying to see torture taken to this extent where the character's combat career, hell even just the ability to move under their own power anymore, is ruined by the extent of their wounds.

* It's pretty safe to say that Skull Face is Nightmare Fuel incarnate. In just a few audio tapes, he established himself as, far and away, the most depraved and horrifying villain in the history of the franchise, easily outdoing even Volgin and Hot Coldman.

* Miller mutilated by torture, with his right arm removed at the shoulder and his left foot cut off at the ankle, a pathetic heap of the man he used to be. While torture sessions in the past were no cake walk it's horrifying to see torture taken to this extent where the character's combat career is ruined by the extent of their wounds.

* Miller mutilated by torture, with his right arm removed at the shoulder and his left foot cut off at the angle, a pathetic heap of the man he used to be. While torture sessions in the past were no cake walk it's horrifying to see torture taken to this extent where the character's combat career is ruined by the extent of their wounds.

* Skull Face's backstory, as detailed in the final cassette you unlock for getting the others, is horrifying to say the least. He grew up building weapons in a factory, wherein he and his family interacted with various other families from his village, and that was sadly the only world he knew. One day, on the order of spies who discovered their factory, planes came drowning in and bombed his village out of existence, crushing his life as he had known it. After being burned alive all that remained was a child with no language, no nation, no family, and no skin. The only thing he could hold claim to was his skull, his face took on a skull shaped disposition with its lack of skin, that skull being his ultimate proof of humanity. Skull Face clings to the memory of his past which had been burned away, cleaving to that last shred of humanity so that the will of his people would not die with them but would live on in him. All that remains is this hollow skull of a man, devoid of humanity and cleaving onto a nihilistic "hope" for his future. Truly a disturbing individual.

As one of the darkest games of the Franchise/MetalGear franchise, this game has some A-grade military terror.