16 Days to MGS4!

Today's random Metal Gear fact:

Solid Snake was born at an unknown point in 1972 (along with his two brothers). Given that, we can easily calculate how old he is during each installment of the series:

• Metal Gear (1995): 22-23 years old


• Metal Gear 2 (1999): Probably 27, since MG2 is in late December


• Metal Gear Solid (2005): 32-33 years old


• Metal Gear Solid 2 - Tanker Chapter (2007): 34-35 years old


• Metal Gear Solid 2 - Plant Chapter (2009): 36-37 years old


• Metal Gear Solid 4 (2014): 41-42 years old

As you may know, Snake is a clone of his "father," Big Boss. As he and his brothers, Liquid and Solidus, get closer to the age Big Boss was at when his cells were used to clone them, they begin aging at an accelerated rate. Big Boss was in his early forties when the Les Enfant Terribles project was conducted, so this explains why Snake appears to have aged so much in the five-year period between MGS2 and MGS4.

This accelerated aging phenomena is theorized to actually happen in real-world clones such as Dolly the sheep, though there seems to be some contention over it within the scientific community. Check the link below for more info:

http://tinyurl.com/6djzez