I'm a giant fan of metal gear i grew up on it since my dad played it and soon i began to pretend to be him and draw sketches i thought that the story line was original and amazing and i even brought toys and cosplayed snake...
but i recently saw a movie called "escape from newyork"
where i found a ton of similaritys between the two
the main character name
is snake Plissken
Plissken being snakes false name in mgs 2
both soldiers were assumed to be dead (mgs2)
both legendary soldiers
both had to rescue the president... who was tied up in both
both team up with a dorky person
(harold in efny) and (hal in mgs) see how similar it is just tahe off the r.o.d and you'll get otacon's real name
both hair styles are similar
both have eye patches
even the voices are the same
Plissken weres a bandanna around his leg
Snake weres a banbanna around his head
the entry scene looks a lot like vr training
they both have that bad ass attitude...
and theres a cqc scene when he's fighting
president looks alike
and one of the actor names was bruce campell in escape from L.A.
theres a sequel escape from L.A.
don't believe me heres some links and yeah it was made before metal gear solid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZIWJ1y SyHE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrc-LVC uoHI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRIQRtb dWJE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXHCyk k7fU&feature=related
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/
http://spanish.imdb.com/title/tt008234 0/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki9s5uB 4HkE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHygbg YBUo&NR=1
sorry i didn't see escape form L.A. yet so i cant go on about that but I'm sure theres
more stuff that influenced metal gear solid
but thats my share
i still love metal gear though... rock on snakes