Mission Briefing: Just a few X presses and an L1. No running around in the Mk
III this time.

Ship Bow

*NOTE: Easily the toughest part of the game. Get ready for your skills to be
put to the test.*

First, there is a little hatch nearby that you can hide in. Crawl along for a
song and an RPG. Make sure your Solid Eye is on before you come back up from
either end. Now you have a choice to make, and it depends on what you've been
doing all game. You can try your hand at sneaking, usually ending in many, many
deaths. Or you could actually just run straight to the door and it will work,
maybe.

The sneaking path is a bit risky, but you're already on Caution, so you can
take some gambles. After you pop up, I advise you take out any Frogs way high up
in the towers. Then if there are any others a good distance from you, pop them
asleep. Now play cat and mouse with the others nearby and put them out. You can
go down the right side, up the middle, or use the various ladders and walkways.
The right side has a choke-off point and has a more difficult end. The middle
offers you almost no solid way to get to the end. And the ladders and walkways
are all just dead ends, so there is no point.

The best way is to go up the left side. When you hit a column, just hide and
take out the Frogs either later or just jump out. You can't be too close, but
you want them asleep. If you want to let them pass and sneak up behind them,
that works too. There are three, and once they are gone make sure the coast is
clear and move up to some cover. There are about three more before you hit
Gekko territory. You may only see one, but either way just put them to sleep and
then go left behind a round container.

By this time a Gekko or two have arrived and are patrolling the area in front of
the door you need to get in. But stay behind this round thing. Hug it and slide
between the crates to get past. Slink over to a column when the Gekko isn't
looking, but also watch out for the two Frogs that drop in front of you. You can
hide behind the round container and be mostly safe. You need to get both of
these bad girls to sleep. Now go to the end and then take cover from the
doorway; there should be just a tiny little sliver of wall along the right side
you can hide behind. A Gekko drops in front of the door, but give it some time
and your allies will take him out. But the others are still around.

You have two options: either run to the door and open it under fire, or try
to avoid any detection. You could try to toss a magazine clip, a grenade, the
Mk III, or whatever to distract the thing, or things. You could even peek
around and try to nail them with the rail gun. You could even try to just go
for the door when they aren't looking. Either way, you need to get to the door,
tap Tri. to open it, and then slip inside. There are items to grab and then
step on the elevator to go down.

Command Center

You have three waves of enemies. First you get out your Mk2 and start popping
a few enemies in one direction, then get up and hide among the desks. Pop the
rest down here. The second wave is above you on the catwalks, so pop them with
headshots. The last wave is just like the first.

Admin Note: Oh noes another one :P.

Missile Hangar

Just run forward. Some X presses in the cutscene. If you were expecting someone
to say "Ask us the sex question again," or "Where's the rum?" then you are not
alone - and shouldn't they be in a sand castle of bodies too?

Anyway, once you're back with Snake, all you can do is roll past all the Scarabs
and just keep rolling. You only need to roll when you hit a big group or when
one is on you. No need to stop and you can roll right into the items.

Microwave Corridor

Kentucky Fried Snake. Just move forward and keep a watch on the upper half of
the screen. After that it becomes a real test of endurance as you must keep
pressing the Triangle button, and keep pressing it quickly. You'll be hurtin',
but you get the long end of the stick. You'll live. No worries of health either,
FYI.

Just a thought, but I believe there are no more female humans left on earth.
Never mind me, enjoy the scene.

Epilogue: Naked Sin

Eh, just watch. Like seriously, it's a good time for diner. Oh heck, just get
a snack, you're gonna be here for a while. What should come as a surprise to
no one, it's about an hour, yep, an hour.

"Oh, they're alive."
"Ooo, pretty hat."
"Look, it's Ving Rames!"
"Look, it's Elian Gonzalez!"
"Look, it's Lindsay Lohan!"
Press START
"Wait a second! This guy doesn't have crazy monkey feet!"
"Hey look, it's that surprise twist everyone saw coming, months ago!"
Press START
"Hmm, an interesting twist."
An X press
"DEUS EX MACHINA!"
"Lindsay needs to lay off the smokes."
And 30 minutes later MGS4 is over.
Well, not really.

Debriefing: Naked Son

An X press
"Where are these people coming from?"
"DEUS EX MACHINA AGAIN!"
Another X
"Do these people even listen to themselves as they speak?"
More X's, then more
"Just end already! Stop talking, you!"
Another 30 minutes later (all of which I expect back at some point), the game
finally ends.

Okay, so counting the credits and the end of those, we go well over an hour.
In fact, we are at an hour and ten minutes from the end of gameplay. Wow.
Gotta do it too so you can save all the stuff you unlock, if anything. You
could have skipped and then played the ending scenes from the save earlier too,
if you were in a rush.

Well, Lord of the Rings is off the hook for having the longest ending. My
goodness, in Grand Theft Auto 4 he just walked away. Oh well, it was a good
story... well, it was a story at least.

I think the next game will be really great! Oh wait...