Top 10 Metal Gear Solid Bosses

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Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series is known for having incredible boss fights. Whether the gameplay itself was fun or the character just stuck in our mind as particularly awesome, here are the top 10 Metal Gear Solid bosses.

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The big encounter with the nuclear-armed bipedal tank, dubbed Metal Gear REX, brought a chilling edge to the final moments of the Shadow Moses Incident. Kojima and his team spent a lot of the story building up this potential nuclear threat. The fight itself was quite a spectacle, even by the graphics standards of 1998. The DARPA-built monstrosity had all the weapons: a mounted laser, rotating cannons, anti-tank missiles, and a token weak spot just like Star Wars' Death Star. In fact, it was a hell of a fight, that jumped from gameplay to cutscene seamlessly, but the cruel twist at the end, where an old friend sacrificed himself in order to help Snake put REX down for good, made it memorable.

The first battle with the "Cyborg Ninja" (aka Frank Jaeger) is easily one of the most intense boss fights in Metal Gear history, but more than that, it's downright creepy. At this point in the original Metal Gear Solid, we don't know that locked deep inside that exoskeleton is Snake's old friend Frank, but he certainly has a score to settle. During your hand-to-hand brawl, the Ninja backflips, he deflects bullets, he disappears into thin air. All the while, he's taunting you, begging you to hurt him, dropping subtle clues that Snake should remember him. It's a palpable tension, both narratively and in the gameplay. This battle made you sweat, and left you with more questions