To his resume Solid Snake can add that he is fluent in six languages. He is an expert in scuba diving, mountain climbing, parachuting, and small arms.

His IQ is 180. He is both adaptive and intuitive, making him the perfect soldier for any mission.

His body is also enhanced with nano-machines which constantly check his vital signs and feed his body nutrients whenever necessary.

Previous Missions

In his rookie mission, Snake sky dives down on Outer Heaven, a burgeoning country inhabited by mercenaries, and kills his old leader, Big Boss. He retires from the special ops group Foxhound, and secludes himself.

Solid Snake

Shadow Moses

On a remote isle of Alaska, Foxhound, now under the command of a domineering Liquid, captures a nuclear weapons disposal facility, making them traitors and a full-fledged terrorist group in the eyes of the US government. Snake is coerced out of retirement by Col. Campbell once again to stop his old team. The terrorists demand a huge sum of money, and the remains of “Big Boss” whose body has been preserved.

Snake infiltrates the facility and encounters members of Foxhound, including Decoy Octopus, Vulcan Raven, Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf, Revolver Ocelot, and Liquid Snake. He also comes across Meryl Silverburgh and Hal Emmerich who join him, and a mysterious Cyborg Ninja who is a sometimes friend and sometimes foe.

Unbeknownst to Solid Snake, at the beginning of the mission he was injected with a virus by the name of “FoxDie,” designed to infect persons of a certain genetic makeup. The virus jumps to some people that Snake comes across and they instantly suffer the effects, fooling Snake into believing they are having a heart attack.

In the final chapter of the mission, Solid Snake encounters his twin brother, Liquid. It is here that Snake learns of his past and his relationship to Big Boss. The two Snakes, were part of a project named Les Enfants Terribles, a government-sanctioned project to try and recreate the legendary soldier. However, during the process, the genes needed to be altered and one twin received the inferior (recessive) genes, while the other received the dominant genes. Liquid believed it was he who received the “inferior” genes and hated Solid for it. He believed he was robbed of what was rightfully his and therefore staged all the events of Shadow Moses to draw his brother out of hiding.

The two brothers engage in battle once Liquid is done scorning his bother. Liquid jumps into a bipedal Metal Gear, forcing Solid Snake to once again shut down the machine. From there, they meet each other in unarmed combat atop the rubble of the mecha raised high in the air. Liquid is tossed off by Solid and is presumed dead, allowing Snake and Meryl to escape the compound. As they are leaving they are chased down by Liquid once again, but once outside the facility, the effects of the “FoxDie” virus consume Liquid.

At the end of the mission, Dr. Naomi Hunter, who has been assisting Snake throughout the mission via codec/radio, admits to injecting the virus into him. She apologizes, and re-calibrates the nano-machines inside Snake's body to put a permanent hold on "FoxDie". Snake, with Meryl and Hal at his side, disappear into the Alaskan cold.

Philanthropy and Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty

Years after the Shadow Moses affair, Solid Snake appears once again, partnering with Hal Emmerich in an anti-Metal Gear group known as Philanthropy. He must board a US Marine tanker that is carrying a new model of the Metal Gear. During the mission, a Russian army commandeers the tanker and the new model is stolen. The tanker sinks, and though Snake presumably dies there as well, photographs taken by Revolver Ocelot lead the general public to believe that it was Snake who was at fault.

Sometime after the tanker incident, Solid Snake and Hal reappear to help out rookie “Foxhound” member Raiden in locating the Metal Gear housed within an offshore water cleaning facility, simply known as “The Big Shell”. Snake covers his identity by referring to himself as Iroquois Plisken, a Navy Seal part of Seal Team 10.