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The Official Metal Gear Timeline

Do you know where Metal Gear Solid falls in the chronology? What about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker? Or Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake?

For the past three decades (three decades!), the Metal Gear games haven’t been released in chronological order. For example, last year’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is set in 1975, while Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain takes place in 1984. And so on.

Via PlayStation Japan, above is a handy chart to keep all the games in order.

A new Metal Gear chronology clip from Sony Japan promises that MGSV: TPP will settle the “greatest mystery in Metal Gear.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP0dNijW630

That, of course, being what happened to Hideo Kojima.

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