Snake means business, friends, and he'll blow you to smithereens if you aren't careful. Ultimate), https://supersmashbros.fandom.com/wiki/Solid_Snake?oldid=590883, Snake is the first third-party character to be confirmed as a playable character in the. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Top Contributors: IGN-GameGuides, Squall0905, Peer-IGN + more. One of them would become the FOXHOUND operative codenamed Solid Snake, grown to resemble Big Boss almost identically. This one-man army appears not as he did during his two NES adventures, but rather as he did in the original PlayStation title Metal Gear Solid, which dragged the Metal Gear franchise out of obscurity and back into the limelight. So old-school, in fact, that it comes as no surprise to NES gamers that Snake appears in Brawl, considering the original Metal Gear game (which isn't Metal Gear Solid) premiered on the NES twenty years ago. Snake is the first third-party character to be confirmed as a playable character in the Smash Bros. franchise. You can control the missile yourself! Snake rescues Drago Pettrovich Madnar, the scientist who was forced to build Outer Heaven's Metal Gear TX-55 model, and learns from him of how to destroy it. After defeating Pettrovich, destroying Metal Gear D and having a final battle with Fox amidst a minefield, Snake learns that Big Boss was in charge of Zanzibar Land, having successfully used Venom Snake as a decoy, and had once more been planning to establish it as a warrior nation where soldiers would always be needed, even going so far as to raising child soldiers to this end. When Metal Gear was ported to the NES, it sold well enough that Snake subsequently appeared in the sequel, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. The mission takes a shocking turn when Snake finds out later that Big Boss is actually the leading man behind Outer Heaven as well as FOXHOUND (in reality, the Big Boss seen during the Outer Heaven Uprising was Venom Snake, Big Boss' "phantom" body double.) The character underwent an eight-year hiatus, until the release of the seminal Metal Gear Solid for Sony PlayStation in 1998, which fully established Solid Snake in his more popular, modern-day character design, which was made by artist, Yoji Shinkawa (see his above artwork). A conflict sparks between Big Boss and his former friend and CO, Major Zero, as the two clash over their interpretations of The Boss' last will, which leads to Zero forming the Cipher conspiracy group as his way of carrying out what he believes to be the Boss' will. Ironically, he's also the first and so far only third-party character to be previously cut from the roster. Snake whips out a rocket launcher and points it at the ground right in front of him for some reason. After grabbing an opponent, mash on the attack button to choke them. In short, he sets a block of C4 on the ground and can set it off remotley by performing the move again -- but timing it right is the tricky part. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズX, Great Fray Smash Brothers X), often shortened to "SSBB" or "Brawl", is a fighting game for the Nintendo Wii. The real Big Boss works in secret to build his Outer Heaven whilst Venom builds up his legend and leads Diamond Dogs to victory, ultimately killing Skull Face and avenging the suffering that Skull Face and Cipher as a whole put Snake and Miller through, although Miller angrily breaks off his friendship with Big Boss upon learning the truth about Boss' deception and learning that the Big Boss he thought he was fighting alongside was a decoy. A standard ledge attack -- use it when someone's trying to edge guard. Last Edited: 8 Jan 2013 9:00 pm. Venom allies with Miller and Ocelot, turning Miller's ragtag "Diamond Dogs" mercenary group into a large scale private military force almost rivaling a major country, complete with nuclear weapon development capability. In some cases, grenades you drop may get returned to sender. Snake is also one of the heavier characters in the game in both speed and durability, although his impressive recovery ability thanks to his Cypher move and his fast tumble roll dash move can make him deceptively quick when the need arises. Snake's up-Smash may be the most unique in the game. Snake's name, in fact, was derived from Escape from New York's main character, Snake Pliskin, and his real name, "David" serves as a reference to the astronaut David Bowman from "2001: A Space Oddysey" (whilst simultaneously referring to Dave Forrest, a character from one of Kojima's earlier games, Policenauts.) Also, if you hit an opponent with the grenade itself, it will inflict 2% damage, and the explosion itself 12%. Eventually, the mission leads every major player onto the gargantuan battleship "Arsenal Gear", and it is revealed that Ocelot was a Patriot spy, the events of Big Shell were merely the Patriots' recreation of the Shadow Moses incident to serve their own purposes, and that Raiden, far from being a rookie, was an emotionally broken child soldier who fought in the Liberian Civil War and had suppressed his childhood memories up until this mission. Tip: If you're right next to an opponent, you can plant the C4 directly onto them! Snake’s Final Smash is the Grenade Launcher. The newest incarnation of the popular fighting game franchise, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core returns with its trademark ... SitemapAdvertisePartnershipsCareersPrivacy PolicyAd ChoiceTerms of UseReport Ad, CA Privacy/Info We CollectCA Do Not Sell My Info. Snake makes his debut in the Smash series as a playable character in Brawl, announced via a surprise teaser shown after the first trailer for the game. Crawling is a technique introduced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Snake. You may also want to throw an opponent upward when their % is high and they're near the top of the screen, such as on the top-row of blocks in World 1-1's underground area. Do it at Training Mode to avoid some physical attacks and projectiles. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Snake's codec regarding Diddy Kong begins. Complete 15 brawl matches on Shadow Moses Island. But, here's hoping the NES cult classic Metal Gear is released on the Virtual Console to commemorate Snake's appearance in Brawl sometime soon! When Snake doesn't put the cardboard box over his head but crouches instead with his finger in his ear the codec call will pop up at the bottom of the screen. There's no appreciable different between throwing them in front or behind you. Both Solid Snake and Roy Campbell go into retirement after this, with Snake's recurring nightmares about the Outer Heaven battle finally ending. Snake must infiltrate the island and defeat each rogue FOXHOUND member one-by-one, and, with the aid of the naive but regretful Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, he sabotages the Metal Gear REX model at Shadow Moses. However, it has limited horizontal movement, making it easy for your opponent to guess where you'll be. Snake's relevancy to the Nintendo legacy involves mainly his United States and European Nintendo Entertainment System adaptation of, Solid Snake himself wears a teal colored bandana. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Palette Swap (Super Smash Bros. This powerful kick will either knock your opponent straight up or down, depending on whether you hit them when your leg is going up or down. Although Liquid again possesses Ocelot, escapes with the Marine-built RAY and crashes Arsenal Gear into Manhattan, Snake places a tracking device on Liquid's RAY and secures a disc containing information on the Patriots, although it turns out to be a dead end. His home stage, Shadow Moses Island, returns as well. The amount of times you can do this varies depends on how much damage your opponent has taken. His high weight also allows him to trade blows with opponents at little risk of getting KO'd, particularly with his self-damagin… Shinkawa's Snake design features a dark grey bandanna, a consistent "sneaking suit", and the effective voicework of Akio Ohtsuka for Japanese versions and David Hayter for English versions of Metal Gear games as Snake's defining aspects. Combined with his B button abilities of similar nature, such as planting a remote detonated C4 mine and the deceptively high power of his hand to hand moves, Snake is perhaps one of the most unique characters in the game with his high emphasis on tactical fighting. Metal Gear Solid is also parodied in Ape Escape 3 for the PS2 in the minigame Metal Gear Solid: Snake Escape, where Solid Snake has been captured and the player must control a monkey to rescue him. Snake also learns of a retrovirus named FOXDIE, and that it was secretly planted into him by Naomi Hunter, one of Snake's own support teams. Snake survives and gets involved in the immensely intricate and complex scenarios that occur throughout the rest of the game in 2009, taking place on the Big Shell, an environmental cleanup facility built to remove the spilled oil from the Discovery's sinking. Snake is easily the most "badass" of all characters on the Brawl roster, toting a wide array of heavy weapons from rocket launchers to grenades to landmines. After the mission's end, Snake teams up with Otacon and the two form a strong friendship. Solid Snake (ソリッド・スネーク, Soriddo Sunēku?) He is also a veteran in Super Smash Bros. In 2007, starting off the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Snake, working with Otacon as part of the anti-Metal Gear group "Philanthropy", is sent to infiltrate the US Discovery, an oil tanker secretly housing a new model of Metal Gear, codenamed "RAY." He must always act alone initially in each mission, sneaking and battling his way through enemy compounds, armed with nearly nothing other than his two-way "codec" radio to receive transmissions from his commanding officer and other characters, a pair of binoculars, and as a bonus touch, a pack of cigarettes. If you're good with you're jumping, try to nail a recovering opponent with your down swing to kick them into the abyss, then use your recovery move to return to the stage. There's a whole generation of gamers that don't realize that Snake is old-school. Snake returns as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. This is called a Nikita. The PlayStation 3 game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, features an aged Snake, now identified as Old Snake by the game. In MGS4, Old Snake attempts to put a stop to a violent insurrection being planned by Liquid Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot having been completely possessed by the right arm and spirit of Liquid Snake, having had it grafted there after losing his own right arm to Gray Fox nine years prior) whilst also trying to solve the mystery of the Patriots and put an end to their control of human freedoms.