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Introduction ( MGS01 ) a. Author Intro ( MGS02 ) b. Copyright Stuff ( MGS03 ) c. E-Mail Info. ( MGS04 ) II. Basics ( MGS05 ) a. Tips ( MGS06 ) b. FAQ. ( MGS07 ) II. Boss Battles ( MGS08 ) a. Ocelot ( MGS09 ) b. The Pain ( MGS10 ) c. The Fear ( MGS11 ) d. The End ( MGS12 ) e. The Fury ( MGS13 ) f. The Sorrow ( MGS14 ) g. Colonel Volgin ( MGS15 ) h. Shagohod & Volgin ( MGS16 ) i. The Boss ( MGS17 ) IV. Conclusion ( MGS18 ) a. Metal Gear Solid 4: ( MGS19 ) Guns of the Patriots b. What Next? ( MGS20 ) c. Version History ( MGS21 ) d. Special Thanks ( MGS22 ) 0-------------------------------------------------------------0 I. Introduction ( MGS01 ) a. Author Intro ( MGS02 ) Well hello there and how do you do. Welcome to my Boss Batttle FAQ. for the wonderful game that is Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This FAQ. will cover all the basic Tips, Hints and Strategies that you will need to know and learn in order to get past all of the bosses. Hopefuly this FAQ. will help you with all the information that you need to know and I hope that it makes you happy : ). Now why did I choose to do a Boss Battle FAQ. for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ( MGS3 ) I hear you ask. The main reason being that they are awesome bosses and that there are sooo many ways you can defeat them. So without further ado let's get this FAQ. on the road! b. Copyright Stuff ( MGS03 ) This guide may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. All respective names are copyrightof their owners. c. E-Mail Info. ( MGS04 ) When sending a e-mail put something in the subject box such as "MGS 3 Q&A". If there is nothing appropriate in the subject box I will simply delate your e-mail and put you on my naughty list. Always include MGS3 in there so that I know what it's about and then what your writing about such as: - MGS3 Q&A - MGS3 Tips - MGS3 Spelling Mistake etc. Firstly please send me e-mails that include - Corrections to anything that is wrong in the guide. - Spelling corrections. - Additions to the guide that might be of intreset and help to people - Any answers to Questions that is/are not answereed in the guide. DO NOT SEND ANY E-MAILS THAT INCLUDE/S - Viruis or Spam. - Stuff that has nothing to do with the guide or is stuipd. - Things that are already in the guide. - Critctisim or being rude. - TyPiNg LiKe ThIs. - Telling me how to write the guide. This is a bad letter... HeY iDiOt! WhAt ArE tHe SpEcIaL mOvEs. I NeEd T0 UsE YoUr T0IlEt. HeRe'S A V1RuS. DoNt HaVe FuN! Also if you are helping with the FAQ. by correcting mistakes please type in your name that you would like to be known as in the Special Thanks section. If you use offensive or rude languge or in anyway your username could offend someone I will simply not put you in the Special Thanks section. Also please write what country your from just for my fun and so I know what country is the biggest MGS3 fan!! ( Australia ) 0-------------------------------------------------------------0 II. Basics ( MGS05 ) a. Tips ( MGS06 ) These tips are for both the game and Boss Battles -- When killing enemys always use a silent method of killing them such as choking them to death in CQC or tranquilzing them. Once there dead always hide their bodies so that other guards do not see them dead, sleping etc. -- When near guards always use the D-Pad to sneak. Sneaking uses stamina but makes alot less noise. -- Use all your equimpent and weapons that you have. Always use logic because the game is incredibly realstic. More often then not logic pays off. -- Use the First Person View ( R1 ) or your scope when entering a new area to find items, suss out guards paths etc. -- Take full advantage off the cardboard boxes but just make sure you use each one in the right area. Also imagine you are one of the guards. Would you think that the coardboard box looks odd or not? -- USE YOUR CAMOFLAUGE!!! Always use your camoflauge and face paint to blend into the environment. Also if say you are waiting for the right momement to attack crouch or lay on your stomach to blend into the environment even more. You always want the % in the top right hand corner to be as high as possible!! -- The Motion Dector is your friend. Use it when ever you are unsure of the amount of guards there are. b. FAQ. ( MGS07 ) At the momement I don't have any questions so please send them in to me! I am going to go on the internet soon to find if there are any frequently asked questions and if so I'll put them here. 0-------------------------------------------------------------0 II. Boss Battles ( MGS08 ) Before we go on how about some Boss Battle tips for all the bosses hey. Here they are. -- Before going into a Boss fight bring food and lot's of it. So if you are running low on health eat some food to replenish both your stamina and health. -- Use your Camoflauge big time! -- Use the Cure menu. More often than not you will suffer a injury during a Boss fight ( indicated by a red piece in your helath meter ) and if you do not heal it you will contiue to lose health. -- Try and shoot in First Person Mode to aim for the vital parts such as the head. -- Bombarde them with bullets all the way until they fall on the ground. This means that you have hit them with the maxiaum amount of damage in one go. -- Use the quick reload trick. When your clip is nearly empty quickly press R2 to un-equip it then R2 again to re-equip. You will now have a fresh new clip in your gun. Perfect for some of the guns with the long re-load animations. Try firing two rockets per second! Sweeeet : ) -- Use the special camos such as the Animals Camo. which reduces Hand Shaking when aiming with guns or the Fire Camo. Experment. -- Straight away at the begginging of a boss fight call everyone on your radio for useful tips, hints and tatics. a. Ocelot ( MGS09 ) Boss Name : Ocelot Recommended Weapon : AK-47, MK22, SAA ( If you have it ) Man that Ocelot is one cool guy. Alright this is nice simple Boss fight. All it is a shootout. For this boss fight try to stay behind cover for protection but then move around for a different cover because Ocelot will find away to hit you if you stay in the same cover too long. You want to aim at his head for maxiaum damage. When he says something like " I've never felt tension like this before. " What that means is he is reloading and it is a perfect time to bombarde him with a fury of bullets. You can also shoot Ocelot's hat off which will confuse him for a little while. When Ocelot comes out from behind cover to attack you he will pause for a short while which will allow you to always get the first few shots out. There is also a hornet's nest on his side that you can also shoot to distract him and also allow you to get a couple of head shots in. Try using the Fake Death Pill then reviving yourself during your shoot-out for some pretty funny reactions. Extras: -- If you defeat Ocelot without using lethal force ( by using the MK22 ) you will be rewarded with the Animals Camouflage. The Animals Camoflauge reduces hand shaking when aiming with guns. -- If you have the SAA from a previous playthrough you can do a few things with it.You can twirl it to catch Ocelot's attention ( duel ) and you can use the ricocheting shots to hit him even when he's hiding or reloading behind objects! ------------------------------ b. The Pain ( MGS10 ) Boss Name : The Pain Recommended Weapon : Shotgun, AK-47, MK22 Man this guy is a freak. Look at him! Anyway as soon as you begin equip the Water Camo. The Pain has quite a few attacks and here are the main ones. Attacks -- The Pain will throw some glass jars with some white stuff inside. When the jars land and break the scent will hit you and attract the hornets. Simply dive underwater to lose the hornets. -- The Pain will start harping about his Tommy Gun. What happens is his hornets will form a gun and begin to fire at you. Again simply dive in the water. -- The Pain will yell "Gernade!" A group of his hornets will appear from no where and they will begin to carry a gernade to you and the gernade will expolde upon impact. So you can either shoot the gernade to blow it up or you can swim underwater to get away. -- A huge army of Hornets will gather around Snake. Snake will then shake them off and dive underwater. -- The same as above execpt the Hornets will be yellow and when they gather around Snake The Pain will send a gernade comming your way. -- I hate this move. A group of Hornets will gather around The Pain and another group of Hornets will be the exact same as The Pain so that you have too identical things on the stage! You then have to shoot one and if you shoot the wring one The Pain will counter attack. -- The Pain only begins to use these after the cut-scene during mid battle. The Pain will shout go my "Bullet Bees!" and fire his Hornets at you one by one. They appear as red bullets because of their speed. If they hit you go into the Cure Menu and to avoid his Bullet Bees simply dive underwater. Now that that's out of the way let's talk tatics. Now you can only get damage on The Pain when he isn't covered in Hornet's so when he is throw some gernades at him to get rid of the hornet's. Then shoot him with your Shotgun or if you have a bad aim get out your Ak-47 and bombarde him with a fury of bullets. Like always try to aim for the head for maxaium damage. When he starts harping on about his Tommy Gun dive into the water and swim around and if you have the Water Camo. equipped your % in the top right hand corner should be 100. There are some items scattered around the area and there is also a life medince located in the South West corner. Again try using a Fake Death Pill then re-viving yourself to get in a couple of cheap shots. Try using the Raikov/Raiden mask to confuse him. Extras: -- If you defeat him without using lethal force you will unlock the Hornet Strip Camouflauge which keeps Hornet's leeches and Spiders away from you. You can also tame the Hornet's! Next time you face the Pain ( on your next run through he game ) use this Camo. as well as the Water Camo. for when you go in the water. -- To get his Camo. ( as his camo. will appear on the Rock Platform where he was in the fight ) go to the right of the cave exit and follow the path around. There is a ledge where you can roll off & land on The Pain's platform. ------------------------------ c. The Fear ( MGS11 ) Boss Name : The Fear Recommended Weapon : Shotgun, AK-47, MK22 I hate this Boss Battle the main reason breing is it's annoying! Espically without Thermal Googles!!!! Anyway let's go over The Fear's attacks shall we. Attacks -- The Fear will fire three arrows at you in quick succession. Quickly run around in circles and once the third arrow has been fired quickly shoot him. -- The exact same as the above but they fall from the sky. -- The Fear peforms this move when he comes onto the ground looking for food. He will run up to you and hit you. Roll out of the way to avoid it. -- The Fear will fire a flaming arrow at you. If you get hit you can either run around to shake off the flames or change your uniform. -- This time he will fire three arrows in a row at you execpt they will have a gernade each on them! Run around as to not get hit. Alright straight after the cut-scene go to the Cure menu and heal yourself. The easist way to defeat the Fear is with the Thermal Goggles. If you don't have the Thermal Goggles you can still defeat him it will just be a bit harder. If you get hit by any of The Fear's arrows go into the Cure Menu and heal it. Also watch out for all the different traps scattered around such as the trip wires. These shouldn't be too hard to see though. Anyway if you have the Thermal Goggles equipped you can see where The Fear is at all times : ). When you fins him unload a army of bullets into him with your AK-47 or blast him away with your shotgun. When his stamina get's low throw some food away. Hopefuly he will come and get it. If he does blast him away with the Shotgun because of it's great close range damage and if he dosen't come bad luck. You can also do this with food that is rotten or is poisned. If he picks it up and eats it he will become sick and lose health. Another way of hurting him I like is setting his own traps against him. If you are standing, crouching whatever near a trap he will try and spring the trap against you sometimes but you can counter it and spring the trap back on him. When you see him come towards you quickly run away ( but not too far ) then quickly punch and kick him and hopefuly he will hit the trap and injure himself. Use a mixture of these tatics to win. Also The Fear is a bit smarter than The Pain and Ocelot as he will not be fooled by the Fake Death Pill more than once. If you use the pill a second time he will say something like: "You can't fool me again with your little pill" and then he will fire even more arrows into your body so don't say I didn't warn you! Extras: -- Get shot by one of The Fear's arrows and Cure it with everything execpt the knife and then let it heal. The arrow will stay there for the rest of the game! ------------------------------ d. The End ( MGS12 ) Boss Name : The End Recommended Weapon : Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, MK22 Thanks to Mystic_Clown for helping me with some of the extras of The End's! Man this is what Stealth Games are about. What I love about the End is that there are so many ways you can defeat him. As well as that he is orignal! This is what most games lack. Orignaltiy! : ). Anyway I will outline all the different methods of killing the End but first I will explain his attacks. God Bless his Soul. Attacks -- The End's primary attack is sniping you. He will snipe you with Tranquilzer darts which means his choice of weaponis the Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifle! Anyway if you are hit with one of his Tranquilzer's drats remove it by using the Cure Menu. -- When you get too close to the End he will through a Stun Gernade at you and run away to a different Sniping Point. -- Once you have depleted The End's health or Stamina to one bar he will say a prayer to restore his health. Once the prayer begins however there will be a huge beam of light to find him by. Tatics If you look at the Map you will see that this Battle takes place over three screens. The circles on the Map are possible sniping places that the End could be at. If you get shot by The End look at the map and his postion will be marked in red. You can also figure out his location by following his footsteps. You can use the Directional Microphone for any noises that he could be making such as heavy breathing, talking, walking, snoring etc. noises. Try looking for glints of Sun Ray's from the End's muzzle on his Sniper Rifle. Also remember to have a good camofluage rating and to crawl around and sneak. No running!! Method 1 When you have located the End find a good advantage point and make sure that the End does not see. Then equip your SVD and snipe him. Make sure you aim for his head for maxiaum damage. Try and get to a postion such as on his flank before you fire so that he can not return fire. Method 2 When you have found him sneak up on him and get behind him. If you are lucky the old bugger might off fallen asleep which makes this easy. Get your shotgun out and shoot at his head repatedly. The End will then get up and throw Stun Gernades at you. Remember to look away. Then the old man will run away to a new sniping point and dosen't he run fast for a 100 year old man! Then equip your Thermal Goggles and follow his footprints to his new Sniping Point. Check the map now and then to make sure your not nearing a Sniping Point. If you are be very careful. Method 3 This is by far the easiest and coolest. Save your game during the fight and then load the game back up a whole week later. You can however go into your Playstation 2 Configurtion System and change it like that as well. Then when you load your game back up you will be treated to a little movie where Snake finds The End but finds that he died of old age. Method 4 Go into the Map screen menu and press: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Square, Triangle to show where the End is hidden on the map. You will have to put the code back in every time you go to the map screen again. Now it's just a matter of either sneaking up on him or Sniping him. Extras: -- A stamina depletion against The End awards you with his sniper rifle The Mosin Nagant not his camo. This is a awesome gun and is excellent for stamina depletion victories!!! -- To get The End's camo. you must hold him up. To do this you must sneak up on him ( it's a good idea to wear the spirit camo. ) and point a shotgun and only a shotgun at his head or his crotch. He will lay down but will not give it to you. Repeat this two or three times and then The End will give you his Moss Camofluage. This is the best Camoflauge in the WHOLE game. It gives you 100% camoflauge in grassy areas and also restores your stamina when you are in the light! If you have already played through the game previously instead the End will give you three items instead of the Camo. that you already had. -- Sometimes the Camara will shift over to The End's. From this view you should be able dodge any more shots that he fires at you and pinpoint The End's current location. From mine and my brothers ( Mystic_Clown ) understanding this happens when you have been shot quite a bit and or haven't found The End in quite a while. -- You can capture and eat The End's parrot. Me and my brother Mystic_Clown gave the parrot a name, Tic-Tac, how cute! Anyway we have found Tic-Tac in various places and from our understanding the locations are differnet on different diffulties and appear to be random. If you wish to find him try looking in trees, plants etc. If you capture Tic-Tac alive in a cage he will scream "GRANDPA, GRANDPA!" and give away The End's postion. ------------------------------ e. The Fury ( MGS13 ) Boss Name : The Fury Recommended Weapon : SVD, Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifle, MK22 This guy is just too cool! Look at him! Flamethrower and all. That could be why I like him soo much because of his flamethrower? I don't know but he is just too damn' awesome!!!!LOOK AT HIM!!!!!Anyway sorry about that shall we get on with it? I think we should. Attacks -- The Fury's main attack is his flamethrower. It has a huge range so do whatever you can to get out of there as quick as possible if he fires his flamethrower. When The Fury sees you a exclamition mark will appear above his head and he will shoot and 9/10 he will hit you. -- Whilst The Fury is flying his jetpack he will leave patches off flame on the ground below. Try your best to avoid this. -- The Fury will initiate a countdown and when he reaches zero he will blast of using his jetpack down the isle and will fill the isle with flames and fire. To prevent this shoot The Fury before he reaches zero. First things first you can not attack The Fury from the front you must do it from behind. Also the best camoflauge would be the Black one with the Black facepaint or if you have The Fury's camo from a previous playthrow equip that as you will not have to worry about the fire as his camo. is fire proof. Now your little fight takes place in a little kinda of maze with numerous aisles. Because of what The Fury is wearing when he walks he makes a lot of noise so this will help you find him. Now sneak up to the end of a isle and use the R3 button to rotate the camara around to see if The Fury is in this aisle. If he is and is walking in the oppostie direction grap out your SVD and aim for his head. Fire plenty of bullets at his head and then run away as The Fury will fly down the aisle spraying his flamethrower around. If however he is walking towards you when you rotate the camara around the aisle equip your motion dectector and sneak to the other end. When you near him crawl so that he does not see you and when at the other end do the same thing. Keep repeating this to beat him and if your battries are running low eat a glowcap mushroom to recharge them instantly. If The Fury's health is nearly depleated once you are about to snipe him instead of using the SVD use the Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifle to score you The Fury's Camo or if you don't have that sneak up on him with your MK22 and do it that way. Alternative Method Using the Knife by GTASA..FAN "The best weapon to use against The Fury is the knife as it damages his protective suit. I only had to combo him three times to kill him with the knife. To combo him just get close to him either by letting him come to you or stalking up behind him. If you combo him against the bottom edge (near the ledge), he will fall off, and you can run away before he gets back up." I tried this out and I have to agree I like this method as it is good, easy and fun. Extras: -- Once The Fury's suit rips The Fury is more vunerable to explosions so... -- Blow up barrels next to The Fury for awesome damage. -- You can shoot the pipes for water to extingush the flames. Only certain pipes will give water and you recieve less if you keep shooting at the pipe. -- Try using the SAA. Because of it's ricocheting bullets it is quite easy to damage The Fury around corners. ------------------------------ f. The Sorrow ( MGS14 ) Boss Name : The Sorrow Recommended Weapon : None Woooo! Scary! Talk about guilt trips! This boss is soooooo easy if you have not killed a single guard leading up to this boss battle. Atacks -- All of the soliders and bosses that you have killed so far will come walking down the river in the form of ghosts. If they touch you, you will lose health. These guys are easy to avoid just walk at an angle when you see them comming. -- Occasionly The Sorrow will fire a blue streak at you but he always telegraphs it so that you can simply walk at an angle to avoid it though you should get hit at least once as a scary picture will flash on the screen and Snake will be knocked down. Simply walk up the river sticking to one side so that you can move diagonally to get past his blue streak and the ghosts. The ghosts actually are the ghosts of all the soliders you've killed so the more you killed pior to this boss fight the harder it'll be ( but not that much harder ). The second time I played through the game I had killed no soilders leading up to this boss battle so it was easy as. I reckon it's cool how they say stuff like how you killed them such as: "AHHH! My neck's falling off!" Ohh the good memories. Anyway contiue up the lake up until The Sorrow puts you out of your misery. Nooo! Snakes dead! No silly no he's not. Before you hit contiue press L2 to access the Revival Pill to wake up. After the Boss fight if you look in your Camoflauges you will notice that you have The Sorrow's spirit camo in there. You can skip the whole Boss fight by immediately drowning yourself and then when the "SNAKE IS DEAD" screen comes up you can use your Revival Pill. But by doing this you will not recive The Sorrows Spirit Camo. after the fight though so it's best just to do the Boss fight seeming as it is the easiest boss in the game. Extras: -- Try calling people on the radio. They will begin to act as if you have died? -- If you killed Raidenovich you'll see him running around naked! ------------------------------ g. Colonel Volgin ( MGS15 ) ----- Comming Soon ----- ------------------------------ h. Shagohod & Volgin ( MGS16 ) ----- Comming Soon ----- ------------------------------ i. The Boss ( MGS17 ) ----- Comming Soon ----- ------------------------------ 0-------------------------------------------------------------0 IV. Conclusion ( MGS18 ) a. Metal Gear Solid 4: ( MGS19 ) Guns of the Patriots Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is going to be fricken' awesome. For straters it runs on the Playstation 3 and looks sweeeet! If you haven't seen the trailer head to Gamespot to find out and also take a look at some of the screnshots. MGS4 sees a older Snake many years after the events of MGS2, "an old man exhausted of battle" says the trailer. Soilders patrol the streets alongside tanks and robots. Snake isn't in the best health either. He begins a coughing fit and injections a solution into his neck to bring it in under control. Otacon is back : ) via a robotic sidekick and can also provide ammo! It looks intresting and is going to be one of the best videogame's ever! Can't wait!! b. What Next? ( MGS20 ) Well I am going to contiue to finish this FAQ. for the time being and that shouldn't take me too long and after that I don't really know. c. Version History ( MGS21 ) Version 0.2 - November 13th - Began the guide today. Did up to The Pain. Version 0.4 - November 14th - Today I fixed up a few spelling mistakes and I completed up to The Sorrow. I also completed the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots section. d. Special Thanks ( MGS22 ) Hideo Kojima - For creating the Metal Gear series Konami - For Devloping the game Atari - For Distributing the game Mystic_Clown - My little brother who helped me a bit with The End mighty_choc - One of my freinds who has helped with some spelling mistakes GTASA..FAN - For his method using the Knife against The Fury You the reader - For reading this FAQ Myself - For writing this FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- END OF THIS VERSION. NOT COMPLETE ---------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- 0-------------------------------------------------------------0